Portfolio / 2026Available for staff & lead roles

Designing calm
interfaces for complex
AI systems.

I'm Vinoth Kumar Manickam — a Lead UX Designer with 8 years turning machine learning capabilities and dense enterprise workflows into consumer-grade product experiences.

Austin, TXFannie Mae · PayPal · Vanguard
8+
Years designing
12
Enterprise products shipped
$1M+
Revenue impact
6
Languages — chatbot launches
Selected Work

Three case studies.

A look at how strategy, research and craft come together across fintech, dev tooling and enterprise platforms.

Lead UX Designer2023 — Now

MUSE & DevJoy — an AI platform for model lifecycle governance

Architected a multi-platform ecosystem that turns complex ML training and TechOPS workflows into intuitive, consumer-grade tooling. AI document processing cut liquidation cycles from 8 weeks to 4.

AI / ML InterfacesDesign SystemMulti-platform
50%
Faster cycle time
62%
Fewer user errors
1 wk → hrs
Recoveries processing
Sr. UX Designer2021 — 2023

Developer Portal & AI-powered Auth Rate tooling

Rebuilt the developer experience with guided onboarding and shipped an AI tool that lifts merchant authorization rates across US and Europe.

Developer ToolsAI ChatJourney Mapping
45k → 135k
Monthly devs in 4 mo
+30%
Tool usage / quarter
$1M
Merchant revenue lift
Lead UX Designer2019 — 2021

Retirement & advice platform — a calmer investing experience

Rebuilt the investor dashboard and advisor workbench around a small set of decisions that matter, with AA+ accessibility across the platform.

FintechInvestingAccessibility
+38%
Task completion
-44%
Support contacts
2M+
Investors served
Portrait of Vinoth
About

I lead cross-functional teams to translate AI into experiences people actually want to use.

Specialist in security and developer tools — including open-source benchmarking at Atlassian and mobile device management at Esper. Deeply rooted in HCI and behavioral economics, mixing qualitative and quantitative research to remove friction at the system level.

Currently

Lead UX @ Fannie Mae — MUSE platform

Since June 2023

Education

Bachelor's of Engineering

Core competencies
Information ArchitectureAI / ML Interface DesignConversational AIDesign SystemsJourney MappingUsability TestingPrototypingAccessibilityStakeholder FacilitationData-driven Design
Toolkit
Figma
FigJam
Framer
Axure
Sketch
Adobe CC
Principle
MIRO
Zeplin
Process

Research, system, ship — then measure.

Wireframes
01 — Discover

Journey mapping & empathy

System tokens
02 — Systemize

Design systems & tokens

Quote

"100% alignment with user needs prior to engineering handoff."

Chat AI
03 — Ship

Conversational AI in 6+ languages

04 — Measure
Cycle time-50%
Errors-62%
Adoption+200%
Experience

A short timeline.

Eight years designing AI-driven, multi-platform products for regulated and developer-heavy organizations. I lead with research, ship with systems thinking and partner closely with engineering — from machine-learning governance tooling to retirement planning at scale.

01
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Fannie Mae
2023 — Present · Austin, TX
Lead UX Designer
  • Lead designer on MUSE & DevJoy — an AI platform for ML model lifecycle governance across 4 product surfaces.
  • Consolidated 14 fragmented internal tools into one design system spanning model owners, auditors and governance specialists.
  • Cut model approval cycle time 50% and user errors 62%; collapsed liquidation cycles from 8 weeks to 4.
02
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PayPal
2021 — 2023 · Austin, TX
Sr. UX Designer
  • Led the redesign of the Developer Portal — monthly developers grew from 45k to 135k in four months.
  • Designed an AI-powered Authorization Rate tool that lifted merchant revenue by an estimated $1M.
  • Shipped a conversational AI layer localized across 6 languages with culturally aware tone tokens.
03
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Vanguard
2019 — 2021 · Dallas, TX
Lead UX Designer
  • Led UX for the retirement & advice platform serving 2M+ investors.
  • Lifted task completion 38% and reduced support contacts 44% with a calmer, decision-first dashboard.
  • Hardened the platform to an AA+ accessibility rating, including non-visual on-track summaries.
04
Esper logo
Esper
2018 — 2019 · Bengaluru, IN
Senior Product Designer
  • Designed the mobile device management console used by IT teams to deploy fleets of Android devices.
  • Shipped the device provisioning and remote-control flows that anchor Esper's core product today.
  • Partnered with founding PMs to define the visual language and component library from zero.
05
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Atlassian
2017 — 2018 · Gdansk, PL
UX Designer
  • Designed collaboration and workflow features inside Jira and Confluence used by millions of teams.
  • Contributed to the ADG design system, shaping shared patterns across Atlassian's product suite.
  • Ran cross-timezone research with engineering partners in Sydney and San Francisco.