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Hi 👋

I'm Bala Murugan, a Senior UX Designer at Cisco with over 12 years of experience crafting user-centered design solutions for complex enterprise products. I specialize in transforming intricate technical workflows into intuitive, delightful experiences that users actually want to use.

Currently, I work as a Senior UX Designer at Cisco, where I lead design initiatives for networking management tools used by ISPs and enterprise customers worldwide. Previously, I've contributed to design teams at Juniper Networks, KPMG, and Wipro.

🎯 What I Do Best

Enterprise UX

Simplifying complex B2B workflows

Design Systems

Building scalable component libraries

User Research

Data-driven design decisions

Team Leadership

Mentoring designers & building teams

Although I have spent most of my career as an individual contributor, I have mentored and trained several designers in the past. I’m fully capable of building a design team that can create projects customers will love. Also, I run a meetup group UXTroupe for self-learning designers.

I spend my free time on my pet projects, here are some

A Chrome extension to capture bookmarks with screenshots.
Goalbook In Progress
An AI assistant for writing SMART goals.
An simple and utility first component library

and a few more projects in the lineup.

Recent

My experience with a No-code app builder

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I built an expense tracker using AppSheet, a no-code tool, to automate my Excel-based tracking. This experience changed my view on no-code, showing how it enables quick and efficient app development.

Designing with limited Input, using ChatGPT

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Designing with limited input is essential for UX designers. Using tools like ChatGPT helps quickly understand complex data and create effective designs with minimal guidance.
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