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UX designer Cisco | IDC IIT Bombay M.Des. Interaction Design

About

👋 Hi, I'm Tejaswini, a Product Designer who enjoys making complex things simpler. Currently at Cisco, I design experiences for enterprise security products used by administrators managing complex policies, devices, and operational workflows. Over the past three years, I've worked on simplifying high-stakes decision-making, designing AI-assisted experiences, and building systems that help people navigate complexity with greater clarity and confidence. My background is a little unconventional. I started as a Mechanical Engineer, pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Tool Design and CAD/CAM, and eventually found my way into Interaction Design through my Master's at IIT Bombay. This journey has shaped how I approach design, with curiosity for how things work, an appreciation for systems, and a constant desire to understand the problem before jumping to solutions. 🚀 At Cisco, I've worked across onboarding, navigation, policy management, cross-platform device administration, and AI-assisted workflows. Some of my work has focused on reducing investigation and review time while improving operational confidence for enterprise security teams. Earlier, at Flipkart Wholesale, I explored ways to simplify business workflows across purchasing, ordering, and post-delivery experiences for business customers. 💡 My approach to design starts with understanding the system behind the interface. I believe good design is not just about making things look intuitive. It's about creating clarity within complexity, helping users make better decisions, and designing experiences that work at scale. Beyond design, I like history because apparently understanding the past is easier than understanding people in the present. I cook, experiment with art materials, and keep changing mediums in the hope that one day I'll discover "the one." So far, clay, paint, and everything else are all under review. I'm fascinated by people, systems, and how humanity keeps inventing complicated ways to live together. Chai is my speciality. Sarees are my preferred interface. Blue is my colour. Jasmine is my reset button. Huge Young Sheldon fan. Pani puri and sleep are my coping mechanisms. I believe design is not just a profession, but a lifestyle. My interests lie at the intersection of Enterprise UX, AI-native experiences, interaction design, systems thinking, and designing meaningful products for B2B, SaaS, and Fintech. Let's talk design, technology, or anything that makes complex things a little easier to understand.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

Work experience

User Experience Specialist at Cisco, Aug 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, - Led UX design across onboarding, navigation, and policy management experiences within Cisco Security Cloud Control, simplifying complex administration workflows for enterprise security teams. - Designed cross-platform management experiences that enabled administrators to manage Cisco and third-party security devices through a unified interface. - Designed AI-assisted conflict resolution workflows that reduced policy investigation time by ~40% and surfaced conflict ownership, affected rules, and impacted devices through a centralised experience. - Designed change tracking, deployment preview, and rollback experiences that reduced policy review and verification time by ~50% while improving deployment confidence and operational safety.

Product Designer at Flipkart, May 2022 - Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, - Contributed to concept-level redesign explorations for Flipkart Wholesale, improving information organization and business workflows across purchasing, ordering, and post-delivery experiences. - Conducted heuristic evaluations and interaction design explorations to simplify complex user journeys and support better decision-making for business customers.

UX Designer at BRND Studio, Dec 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 mo, India, Winter Internship

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Jul 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai

Graphic Designer at Dark Square, Dec 2020 - Apr 2021 · 5 mos

Education

Masters Of Design, Interaction Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Post graduation diploma, Tool design and CADCAM, Indo-German Tool Room