Deependu Ajish

Head of Design

Kerala, India3 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Designed AI products that enhance user experience.
Led significant design projects recognized in industry reports.
Expert in transforming complex problems into clear solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused UX/UI designer with expertise in AI-driven product design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)User Experience Design (ued)Design Strategy

Other Skills

Usability TestingDesignUser ResearchVibe CodingArtificial Intelligence for DesignUser InterviewsTeam LeadershipInformation ArchitecturePsychologyUser Interface DesignWireframingBranding & IdentityInteraction DesignUser-centered DesignGraphic Design

About

I design AI and data products at IBM that don't waste engineers' time. I see the bigger picture faster than most, then break it down so my team can actually solve it. People say I'm reliable and communicate well—what they mean is I turn complexity into clarity.

Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Ibm

3 roles

Design Lead

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Leading design for AI-powered data integration experiences across IBM's DataStage and Data Replication products.
Led design for DataStage Flow Assistant, an AI-powered natural language pipeline builder highlighted in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant report—designed landing page and core chat interface that reduces pipeline creation time by an estimated 60-70% for non-technical users.
Provided strategic UX guidance for Data Replication CDC Agent, preventing a potential 2-3 week redesign cycle through early intervention.
Redesigned Carbon Canvas Card and Shape node guidelines for IBM's Elyra-based products, improving brand consistency across 5+ major products affecting thousands of enterprise users.
Currently leading design for DataStage Agent, enabling Data Engineers and Business Analysts to interact with DataStage jobs through conversational AI.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)User Experience Design (UED)

UX Designer

Jul 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Designed core search and discovery experiences for IBM DataStage next-gen, including Transformer Find (50-60% reduction in search time) and Canvas Find (now one of the most-used features, serving 70-80% of active users). Led design team for Canvas Find's innovative in-canvas result visualization.
Designed end-to-end MettleCI Unit Testing integration, reducing cognitive load by 30-40%. Core contributor to Carbon for AI Agent UX Patterns—designed "workspace" component and versioning solution for agent plans, now used across 10+ IBM AI products. Collaborated with Data Migrators team, Carbon Design System team, and DataStage engineering.
Led Connections Usability Research Project—conducted 7 in-depth interviews from 100+ potential participants, synthesized findings into user personas that directly informed connection help panel designs. Designed connections documentation and help panel for 100+ data source connections used across DataStage, Pipelines, and CP4D products.

Usability TestingDesignUser Experience Design (UED)Design Strategy

Design Intern

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos

Contributed to connections documentation and help panel design for Cloud Pak for Data platform, supporting improved user understanding of connection properties and configurations across IBM's data integration ecosystem.

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