Headline

Why is AI not in your home, yet?

About

With over 12 years of experience in user experience design and design leadership, I am passionate about scaling design teams and their impact on the business bottom line. Currently, I am the Director of Design at Nova Benefits, where I lead product design and brand design to change the narratives around providing and managing employee benefits to result in a happier and healthier workplace. My specific areas of expertise include scaling design processes, leveraging UX research for product and design, design strategy to enhance UX of a product, design management, design ops, and leading complementary design teams outside of product design like brand design and conversation design. I have successfully applied these skills at companies like OLA, Haptik, Verizon and Healthline, where I was responsible for various aspects of product experience, conversation design, and brand design. I also enjoy sharing my insights and learnings with other design professionals and aspiring designers through publications, events, and mentorship.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

codex

cursor

deepseek

hermes agent

hugging face

Work experience

Founder at Sudo AI, Nov 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Sudo is a personal home AI device that looks after your whole family, so one person doesn't have to. It knows each of you, catches what's about to slip, and keeps everyone connected, in your own voice and your own language. It reminds you about the supplies needed for the child's art project due tomorrow, schedules your doctor appointment over call, makes the Sunday restaurant reservation when they do not take pre-booking, it does things on your behalf, ahead of time so you and your family have the best outcomes, all the time.

Director of Design [Lazypay & PaySense] at PayU, Oct 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, PayU Finance is comprised of Lazypay & Paysense brands. Heading the product design, research, ux writing and creative functions of PayU Credit in India for the sub-businesses of Lazypay and Paysense.

Director of Design at Nova Benefits, Oct 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Leading product design and brand design to change the narratives around providing and managing employee benefits to result in a happier and healthier workplace

Head Of Design at Ola, Aug 2021 - Oct 2021 · 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Responsible for all things product experience design for three key businesses: 1. Vehicle Commerce - OLA Cars & OLA Bikes 2. Financial Services - Lending, Insurance, Asset Financing 3. Delivery - OLA Foods & OLA Stores (quick commerce)

Head of Design at Haptik, Aug 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, - Lead the strategy, design and execution of converting the B2B Haptik Platform to be fully self-serve - Architected, asking with product team, the "product-led growth strategies" and baked it into the platform design - Lead the design and incorporation of Haptik Design System for Haptik Platforms - Lead the Haptik Chat design system - [Spark](https://www.figma.com/community/file/949726733528864886/Stark---Haptik's-Chatbot-UI) - Grew the practise of conversation design from a nascent three person team to a seven with a strong industry presence. - Grew the product design team from 2 to 4 to a completely research and design lead product building practise

Education

Masters, Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington

Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, School of Computer Engineering, KIIT DU

Public links

github: https://github.com/asispan

asispanda.com: https://www.asispanda.com/