Jasinth Manayath Vadakkayil

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in bridging physical and digital design.
Proven track record in aviation digital solutions.
Strong advocate for human-centered design strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a design leader specializing in user experience and product innovation within the aviation and manufacturing sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience (ux)Design StrategyIndustrial DesignDesign ResearchBusiness InnovationProduct DesignProject ManagementProduct Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesSpace PlanningBrand StrategyWorkshopsGraphic Design PrinciplesPackaging DesignGraphical User Interface (GUI)Diaplay and controlHuman centered systems thinkingArtificial Intelligence (AI)BlockchainSmart ContractsTeam LeadershipInteractive MediaProduct Service

About

A designer and radical thinker passionate about problem-solving and creating meaningful experiences by integrating insights from diverse domains. I thrive on intelligent systems, emerging technologies, digital and print design, branding, typography, ethnographic research, design thinking, usability studies, human behavior analysis, and, above all, proponent of human-centered systems thinking and design strategy. From developing home security products to driving design strategy for enhancing productivity in living spaces, I now focus on solving challenges in the aviation digital domain. My journey spans industries, seamlessly bridging physical (ID) and digital (UX) design to deliver impactful, user-centric solutions.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Airbus

Strategic Design Lead, Asset Management / Materials & Maintenance

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Leading strategic design for next-generation digital solutions— including breakthrough platforms connecting lessors, airlines and partners—across Asset Management & Leasing, Digital Alliance, Materials & Maintenance Agile Release Trains.
Driving long-term experience strategy, north-star visioning, and opportunity mapping to align user desirability, business value, and technical feasibility.
Orchestrating multi-functional teams (Design, Product, Engineering, Data, Business) to translate complex aviation workflows into integrated digital experiences.
Designing and running customer workshops to deeply understand needs, rapidly build early prototypes, validate ideas, and co-create solutions with early adopter airlines, lessors and partners.
Framing problems, synthesizing insights, and defining design principles, experience blueprints, and outcome-based roadmaps for high-impact aviation services.
Leading design research and customer co-creation with major airlines and lessors, shaping MVPs and validating new concepts with real operational stakeholders.
Managing and mentoring designers, fostering a design-driven culture, and elevating design quality, prototyping standards, and UX consistency across platforms.
Enabling decision-making through structured innovation processes, service blueprinting, and executive storytelling to drive clarity and alignment.
Collaborating on exploratory projects with technology partners to assess how smart contracts and blockchain could support new models of aviation data collaboration.
Working across multiple digital products, leveraging Skywise big data to drive meaningful operational insights and deliver a unified data platform experience for customers.
Embedding design within SAFe workflows, defining UX backlogs, supporting PI Planning, and improving feature adoption across ART teams.

User Experience (UX)Agile MethodologiesDesign Strategy

Sobha ltd.

2 roles

Deputy General Manager, Design Strategy, CX, UX - Metercube

Aug 2021 – Dec 2021 · 4 mos · On-site

Space PlanningUser Experience (UX)Design Strategy

Assistant General Manager, Industrial Design, UX, Design Strategy - Metercube

Feb 2017 – Jul 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos · On-site

Industrial design lead, prototyping, project management, defining design process and review mechanisms, design strategy, team building, process development across support domains.
Branding/graphics-digital & print, established/managed in-house photography studio, designing workspace tools.
Setting guidelines for e-commerce/imagery, UX/UI for web and other internal PLM application
for Metercube, Furniture & Homeware venture of Sobha Limited.
Worked closely with the Chairman from the early days of metercube inception and have been part of various strategical decisions along the journey.

Space PlanningBrand StrategyIndustrial DesignDesign Strategy

Godrej & boyce mfg. co. ltd.

3 roles

Senior Manager, Design Research & Business Innovation - Innovation & Design Center (IDC)

Nov 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai · On-site

Research, conceptualise, prototype and propose innovative ideas as a business case, working with a multidisciplinary team at innovation space.
Convert ideas into practical applications by quick prototyping, testing and evaluation followed by product development and business strategy.
Engaged directly with the business owners and faculties of Institute of Design, IIT Chicago, to practice/drive a culture of design thinking within the organisation by following a structured human-centered design process.
Enterprise planning & strategic leadership.
Worked on reinventing tools and business directions for Godrej Cartini, especially for more challenging, diverse culture driven Indian homes.

WorkshopsGraphic Design PrinciplesDesign ResearchBusiness Innovation

Senior Manager, Industrial Design Lead - Locking Solutions & Systems

Sep 2015 – Oct 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai · On-site

New Product Development and Project Management
Notable Projects:
Pentabolt Aries - Premium RimLock
Other Locks and Hardwares
(Research, Design, Graphics, Branding)
Awards:
Aries: India Design Mark 2018

Graphic Design PrinciplesPackaging DesignProduct DesignProject Management

Manager, Industrial Design - Locking Solutions & Systems

May 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai · On-site

Generate Design Brief as per Marketing & User Research. Project Management.
Design and Development of New Products and enhancement of existing products as per NPI cycle. Concept development based on User Research. Mechanism Development, Evaluation and Detailing of concept. Product Styling and 3D visualisation.
Prototyping of concept for final approval. Value engineering of products for cost effectiveness.
Understanding Engineering and Manufacturability aspects of product. Coordinating amongst design, engineering and manufacturing teams. Coordination with Vendors for Tool Development to ensure design intent.
Design or Facilitate Packaging and Graphics for the product. Preparation of design communication document.
Notable Projects:
Corner Fetch - Pull Handles (Design, Packaging, Branding)
Mylock Candy - Baggage Lock (Design, Packaging, Branding)
PinCylinder Furniture Lock
Various Mortise Locks series
Cartini-Scissors & Professional Knives Series
Awards:
Candy: India Design Mark 2016
Cornerfetch: India Design Mark 2018

Graphic Design PrinciplesPackaging DesignProduct DesignProject Management

National institute of design (nid) ahmedabad

Associate Designer - Integrated Design Services (IDS), NID

Sep 2011 – Mar 2012 · 6 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India · On-site

Design of Echo Sounder, a SONAR handheld device for underwater depth measurement engineered by Naval Physical Oceanographic Laboratory(NPOL) Cochin, Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India.

Design ResearchIndustrial DesignProduct Development