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Senior UX Designer & Researcher | Enterprise & B2B UX | Agentic Workflow Design | Responsible AI | Product Thinking | Data-Driven Decisions | Business & Monetization | System Design Thinking | Leadership & Communication

About

👋 Hi, I’m Sounak Sikdar, a Senior UX Designer & Researcher with 7+ years of experience designing enterprise and B2B digital products, including human-in-the-loop AI systems where accuracy, trust, and user control are critical. I currently work at Skillsoft, designing AI-assisted workflows that accelerate user tasks while keeping accountability firmly with users. My work focuses on making AI explainable, traceable, and correctable, especially in complex, high-impact workflows. What I specialize in: • Human-in-the-loop AI UX with manual override, validation, and recovery paths • AI-assisted decision-making systems, not black-box automation • Designing for AI failure, uncertainty, and edge cases • Explainable and trustworthy AI experiences for enterprise users • Translating domain logic into usable, scalable interaction systems • Deep user research to model real-world constraints that inform AI behavior Previously, I’ve worked on AI-assisted diagnostic and recommendation systems for engineering and enterprise users, where AI detects inconsistencies, explains what’s wrong, suggests corrective actions, and allows users to manually validate or override outcomes. My design philosophy is simple: AI should augment human expertise, not replace it. I treat AI as a learning system—guided by clear constraints, feedback loops, and user-led correction—to reduce risk and improve long-term reliability. 💡 I enjoy working on: • AI-assisted enterprise workflows • Complex decision-making systems • Trust, explainability, and usability in AI • Responsible AI UX at scale 📌 Always open to discussions around AI UX, system design, and building responsible AI-driven products.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

antigravity

codex

Work experience

Senior UX Design & Researcher at Skillsoft, Jun 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad, • Led UX improvements across Admin Panel and Learner Platforms, focusing on reducing friction and improving usability across complex, role-based enterprise workflows. • Designed and refined language configuration, content governance, and AI search ingestion flows, enabling accurate localization, controlled content access, and reliable AI-driven discovery. • Designed human-in-the-loop AI systems for automated content translation and localization, ensuring users can review, edit, and validate AI-generated outputs before and after finalization. • Improved Email and Notification UX across learning journeys, contributing to a 25% increase in learner engagement through clearer triggers, timing, and content hierarchy. • Delivered cross-module UX enhancements spanning Admin and Learner experiences, ensuring consistency, scalability, and traceability across AI-assisted and non-AI workflows.

UX Designer Consultant at Capgemini, May 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led UX research and solution design for enterprise clients, including Siemens, Learning Care Group (LCG), and Alstom, working on complex, high-impact B2B platforms. • Designed AI-assisted, automated diagram and validation systems and conducted UX audits for Siemens PowerManager, focusing on accuracy, traceability, and human-in-the-loop correction. • Optimized MySuite CRM for LCG’s 1,100+ schools, improving usability across large-scale, multi-role administrative workflows and reducing operational friction. • Designed iOS and Android Train Management Platforms for Alstom, including end-to-end operational flows and return (recovery) workflows for real-time system usage.

UI/UX Designer at LeadSquared, Apr 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Responsible for designing Tenant Management platform to support the Web-based CRM platform, Leadsquared. • Understanding the flows for new features from the Product Managers and implementing them for the Tenant Management platform. • Collaborating with the development team to help them achieve the design standards by sharing design assets, and guidelines with the team.

UI/UX Designer at Solstium, Sep 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, • Accomplished a Web and Mobile Application “Eagle” and Customized it for 20+ Clients as per their business needs like Employee Management, Warehouse Management, POS, CCTV Tracking e.t.c. • Working with an international team of 10+ front-end and back-end developers to achieve exactly what I have created and the features I have incorporated into a Web or Mobile Application. • Conducting heuristic evaluations to meet the design standards.

Graphic Design Associate at MYNDROOT, Jul 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, • Responsible for Design Corporate Identity and Marketing Collateral for 15+ clients which include Logo, Business Card, Letterhead, Brochure, Poster, Hoarding e.t.c • Designed 10+ Website Templates for the clients.

Education

Master of Design - MDes, User Experience, Chitkara University

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Multimedia & Animation, HimalayanUniversity