Automotive UX
Human-centered design for the modern digital cockpit and connected vehicle.
Leading global UX programs that consolidate 8+ vehicle brands across 6+ markets — from digital clusters and HUD to Android Automotive OS and AI-assisted design systems.
UX Architect and Usability expert with 17+ years shaping automotive HMIs, mobile and web products. Currently an Associate Solution Architect at a European automotive software company, leading global UX programs that consolidate 8+ vehicle brands across 6+ markets — delivering wireframes, specifications and design systems for Software Defined Vehicles.
Seventeen years across automotive HMI, product design and creative direction — from 3D visualization to leading global UX architecture.
Associate Solution Architect — UX
7 KROWN AwardsUX Domain Expert & Team Lead
6× Project ChampionDigital & UI Designer
Creative & Digital Designer
2× Best Employee Award3D Visualizer & Project Lead
From safety-critical clusters to AI-assisted DesignOps — a full-stack design practice for Software Defined Vehicles.
Human-centered design for the modern digital cockpit and connected vehicle.
Native AAOS experiences — apps, media, and system integration.
Safety-critical cluster design balancing glanceability and delight.
AR-ready HUD concepts that keep drivers eyes on the road.
IVI media, navigation and comfort flows across brands.
Companion apps and services bridging phone and vehicle.
Agentic DesignOps — from requirements to production-ready UI.
Multi-brand systems integrated with release libraries.
WCAG-aligned, inclusive experiences for every driver.
Interviews, empathy maps, usability testing and synthesis.
Micro-interactions and motion that communicate state.
Aligning UX vision with business and product roadmaps.
Deep-dive case studies spanning EV charging, personalization, IVI, HUD and AI DesignOps.

GreenCharge is a stand-alone Android Automotive application that helps EV users optimize home charging based on dynamic electricity tariffs and CO₂ emission forecasts. The application identifies up to four optimal charging windows within the next 24 hours while considering charging requirements and an optional departure time.

A profile-driven personalization layer that adapts the entire cockpit — seat, climate, ambient, media — to every driver.

A glanceable, voice-friendly media experience that keeps the joy of music without pulling eyes from the road.

An AR-ready head-up mini map that layers turn guidance onto the road without overwhelming the driver.

Seamless, privacy-first driver recognition that greets each driver and restores their world in seconds.

An agentic pipeline turning raw requirement PDFs into research, wireframes, design-system-ready UI and QA cases.
A repeatable path from ambiguous requirements to tested, production-ready HMI — the backbone of every program I lead.
Gather business needs, constraints and success metrics.
Users, competitors, context of use and benchmarking.
Map moments, emotions and opportunities end-to-end.
Structure content, flows and screen hierarchy.
Low-fidelity layouts to validate interaction models.
Tokens, components and multi-brand theming.
High-fidelity, production-ready visual design.
Detailed specs, states and edge cases documented.
Release-library integration and engineering support.
Usability validation, iteration and QA sign-off.
An agentic pipeline where specialized AI agents move work from raw requirements to shippable HMI, with human judgment steering quality at every gate.
Recognition and perspectives shared across automotive design, DesignOps and the future of the cockpit.
Recognized for excellence in automotive UX delivery.
Keynote on multi-brand HMI at an internal design summit.
A framework for agentic requirement-to-design pipelines.
Testing my own HMI prototype inside a real vehicle to evaluate usability, touch capacity and physical reach.
Principles for safe, delightful in-vehicle interfaces.
Recommendations from product, engineering and design partners across global automotive programs.
Nikhil brings rare clarity to complex, multi-brand automotive programs. He turns ambiguous requirements into systems teams can actually build.
Product OwnerEuropean Automotive OEM
A design leader who balances safety, brand and delight. His HMI work consistently raised our quality bar across markets.
Engineering LeadCockpit Platform
His AI DesignOps vision changed how our team thinks about the requirement-to-design pipeline. Pragmatic, not hype.
Design ManagerSoftware Defined Vehicle
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Open to design leadership, automotive HMI programs, AI DesignOps and speaking engagements.