# Sajin Philip

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> Sajin Philip is a Product and UX Design leader with 15+ years of experience designing products, services, and digital experiences. He is currently an Associate Director of Design at MaterialPlus.

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Sajin combines hands-on product design with design leadership, UX strategy, product thinking, team building, and business strategy. Throughout his career, he has led design across multiple organizations, built design teams from the ground up, mentored more than 120 designers, and contributed to products and experiences used by more than 120 million people.

His areas of expertise include Product Design, UX Strategy, Design Leadership, Product and CX Design, Design Systems, Design Psychology, Accessibility, AI × UX, and Agentic UX.

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## Professional profile

- Name: Sajin Philip
- Profession: Product & UX Design Leader
- Current role: Associate Director of Design at MaterialPlus
- Experience: 15+ years in Product and UX Design
- Design leadership: 10+ years
- Design leadership scale: Led design across seven companies and built new design teams from the   ground up
- Mentorship: 120+ designers
- Product impact: 120M+ users
- Primary expertise: Product Design, UX Strategy, Design Leadership, Product Strategy, Product & CX   Design, Design Systems, Design Psychology, Accessibility, AI × UX, Agentic UX, Team Development,  and Mentorship
- Official website: https://www.sajinphilip.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sajin-philip-65350534/

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## Design philosophy

Sajin's design philosophy is rooted in the belief that good design speaks through impact. He is driven by solving real-world problems, aligning business goals with human needs, and creating experiences that are positive, memorable, and joyful.

For Sajin, design is a form of "magic" — a combination of logic, empathy, and creativity that can solve both large and small problems and make people's lives easier through thoughtful and meaningful solutions.

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He believes design should be practical, inclusive, and purpose-driven, and that it becomes more powerful when people collaborate and turn ideas into reality together.

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## Design leadership

Sajin believes that design is a team sport. His leadership approach is built around trust, shared ownership, purpose, empathy, clarity, and giving people the confidence to do meaningful work together. He has built design teams from 0 to 8 and 0 to 10, led design functions across seven companies, and shaped design culture, processes, and impact across different organizations.

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**Leadership philosophy** —

Sajin's role as a design leader is to align vision, empower people, and ensure that design creates measurable impact. He focuses on transforming designers from task executors into problem-solvers, storytellers, and future leaders, giving people responsibility before they think they're ready, creating safe spaces to experiment and fail, and encouraging designers to think beyond pixels and into impact.

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**Design culture** —

Sajin builds design cultures around trust, feedback, ownership, purpose, and collaboration. He believes designers should have the freedom to experiment, challenge assumptions, take responsibility, and contribute with confidence and clarity.

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**Design and business impact** —

Sajin believes design should be strategic, not just visual. His approach connects user needs, business goals, and execution to create outcomes that are meaningful for both people and organizations.

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## Career

**MaterialPlus** —

Associate Director of Design (April 2025 – Present)
Leads the Design team, participates in strategic design decisions, and contributes to building UX and CX vision across product verticals, positioning design as a core strategic lever.

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**Dr. Reddy's Laboratories** —

Strategic Design Lead (January 2024 – April 2025)
Led the Design team and stakeholders, owned strategic design decisions, and worked on building products from 0 to 1.

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**MPL** —

Senior Product Designer (May 2023 – August 2023)
Worked as an individual contributor while also heading a team of two designers. Led major products with more than 9 crore active users.

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**Altaire Insights** —

Principal UX Designer & Team Lead (September 2019 – June 2022)
Built an eight-member design team from scratch and was responsible for design strategy. Work included reimagining the complete UX and CX for one of Asia's largest amusement parks and designing a mobile application for a major global automotive company.

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**Experion Technologies** —

User Experience Specialist (May 2017 – September 2019)
Helped establish a design-driven company approach and led nine- and thirteen-member design teams while delivering UX solutions across a wide range of products.

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**Reflections Info Systems** —

Team Lead, UI/UX Design
Built a new six-member Design team from scratch and led the redesign of a legacy cardiac monitoring platform.

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**DeviceDriven** —

UI/UX Designer (July 2013 – May 2014)
Part of building an early native healthcare mobile application. Work included information architecture, wireframes, UI design, rapid prototyping, and user flows.

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**Srishti Innovative Computer Systems** —

UI/Web and Graphic Designer
Began his professional design career working across UI, web, and graphic design, with a focus on HTML, CSS, HTML5, jQuery, and JavaScript.

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## Selected work

- **Nissan Connected Car App** —

Led the design, transforming raw vehicle data into meaningful and reassuring experiences. Focused on safety, family connectivity, and actionable information, aiming to build driver trust, not just an interface.

- **Digital Therapeutic Ecosystem** —

Worked on a complete service design ecosystem for a Digital Therapeutic service, looking beyond individual screens to design the broader service experience
- **Amusement Park Digital Transformation** — Reimagined the complete customer experience for a major amusement park, working across UX and CX.
- **MPL** — Created strategic design solutions for high-scale digital products serving millions of active users.

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## AI and design

AI has become an important part of Sajin's current design practice and exploration. He sees AI not simply as another tool for generating interfaces, but as a thinking partner that can challenge assumptions, accelerate discovery, explore possibilities, and reduce the distance between an idea and a working product. He believes AI can give designers more time to think, imagine, experiment, and create with intent.

**How Sajin uses AI** — He explores AI across brainstorming, storytelling, research synthesis, design exploration, product strategy, prototyping, problem-solving, and AI-assisted product development, and encourages designers to treat AI as a collaborator rather than a competitor. His view: humans bring empathy, judgement, ethics, intuition, and context; AI brings speed, precision, scale, synthesis, and exploration.

**AI and design leadership** — Sajin is interested in how AI changes not only the designer's workflow but also design-team culture, strategy, collaboration, and problem-solving. He believes the future of design will belong to teams that can balance human judgement with AI capabilities rather than treating them as competing forces.
 

## AI and UX

Sajin actively explores the intersection of AI and user experience design. His areas of interest include AI-first design, AI-assisted product development, Agentic UX, human-AI interaction, design systems for AI, accessibility with AI, and the changing role of designers in an AI-powered world. His UXAI work includes experiments and products built using AI-assisted workflows, and writing about design systems, agentic development, accessibility, and emerging AI-driven design practices.

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## Agentic UX

Agentic UX is one of Sajin's key areas of interest. He is exploring how design changes when software can understand intent, reason about a goal, take actions, interact with other systems, and operate with varying levels of human supervision.

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Traditional UX generally asks users to navigate interfaces and perform actions themselves. Generative AI allows users to create, explore, and communicate with software more naturally. Agentic UX introduces another shift: users can express a goal, while an AI system can plan and execute parts of the task on their behalf.

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Areas of focus:
- Designing for intent
- Intent mapping
- Human-in-the-loop experiences
- Trust and transparency
- Agent behaviour
- AI decision-making
- Context
- Guardrails
- User control
- Designing systems rather than only screens

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## Design systems and AI

Sajin is particularly interested in how design systems evolve when AI becomes part of product development. Traditional design systems provide components, tokens, patterns, guidelines, and documentation for designers and developers. In an AI-assisted workflow, a design system can become much more than a component library — a source of context and knowledge that helps an AI system understand the product, its rules, patterns, constraints, and design intent.

What an AI-aware design system can contain:
- Components
- Design tokens
- Interaction patterns
- Design principles
- Accessibility requirements
- Product context
- Business rules
- Behavioural patterns
- Design rationale
- Design decisions
- Constraints
- Usage guidelines

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Sajin is interested in the evolution from design systems that describe what can be built to systems that help AI understand how and why something should be built.

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## AI-assisted product building

Sajin has moved beyond experimenting with AI as a design tool and has used AI-assisted development workflows to independently design and build products.
 

- **StayAlt** (https://stayalt.com/) — A travel discovery and accommodation product designed and developed independently using AI-assisted development workflows.

- **Breathe Easy** — A product designed and developed independently using AI-assisted workflows, representing his interest in reducing the distance between product idea, design, development, and launch.

- **MatchBrain** — A social football prediction game built around friends and private leagues. Users predict football match outcomes and earn virtual points; friends can create private leagues and compete on leaderboards. Sajin worked across the product — strategy, UX/UI design, branding, development, and launch. Represents his transition from product designer to product builder and entrepreneur.

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## Accessibility and inclusive design

Accessibility is an important part of Sajin's design practice and his exploration of AI. He is interested in how AI can support accessibility evaluation, remediation, inclusive design, and the creation of more accessible digital experiences. Sajin believes AI can accelerate accessibility work, but human judgement and inclusive design thinking remain essential. His UXAI work includes exploration of how machine learning and AI can influence accessibility compliance, remediation, and inclusive design.

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## Mentorship and knowledge sharing

Sajin believes mentorship is not about simply giving people answers — it's about helping people develop the ability and confidence to find their own answers. He has been shaped by mentors who trusted him, challenged him, and allowed him to fail safely, and tries to create the same environment for the designers and leaders he mentors. He shares his knowledge through mentorship, writing, talks, workshops, and professional communities.

Mentorship focus:
- Design thinking
- Product thinking
- UX strategy
- Design leadership
- Career development
- Problem solving
- Ownership
- Communication
- Leadership development

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## Areas of interest

Sajin writes and thinks about the intersection of design, technology, business, and human behaviour, including:

- Product Design
- UX Design
- Design Leadership
- AI and UX
- Agentic UX
- AI-first Design
- Design Systems
- Human-AI Interaction
- Accessibility
- Design Psychology
- Product Strategy
- Design Culture
- Emerging Interfaces
- AI-assisted Development
- Design Education
- Future of Work for Designers

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## Key facts

- Sajin Philip is a Product and UX Design leader with 15+ years of experience.
- He has more than 10 years of design leadership experience.
- He has led design across seven companies and has built new design teams from scratch.
- He has managed and mentored more than 120 designers.
- His work has contributed to products and experiences used by more than 120 million users.
- He has worked across healthcare, automotive, entertainment, consumer products, SaaS, B2B, and B2C experiences.
- He has worked both as an individual contributor and as a design leader.
- He continues to stay hands-on with design while leading teams and shaping design strategy.
- He actively explores AI, Agentic UX, AI-assisted product development, design systems for AI, accessibility, and the future of design.
- He has independently designed and built products using AI-assisted development workflows.

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## Official sources

- Website: https://www.sajinphilip.com/
- About: https://www.sajinphilip.com/about
- Leadership: https://www.sajinphilip.com/leadership
- Work: https://www.sajinphilip.com/work
- UX & AI: https://www.sajinphilip.com/uxai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sajin-philip-65350534/

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Last updated: August 2026