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Manasa Pillai

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Director of Design, Wipro - component libraries · design systems · tokens

Works at
Wipro
Location
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
15+ years experience
Education
Symbiosis International University
Languages
English, Hindi, Tamil

Overview

I've spent 19 years on design systems - first at Google, now at Wipro. Cut support tickets about design systems by 24% with clearer copy and states. Most at home with information architecture and component libraries. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on design systems
  • Second opinions on tokens decisions
  • Questions about design systems
  • Working sessions on component libraries
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Skills
component librariesinformation architecturedesign systemstokens
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first design hires: design systems and component libraries

Topics
design systems, tokens, component libraries
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

19 years of design systems. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Chennai, Indiainformation architecturetokensdesign systems

Experience

  1. Director of Design
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Wipro · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
    • Ran 95 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Built a component library 81 engineers ship with every day.
  2. Product Designer
    Aug 2020 - Apr 2023
    Deloitte · 2 yr 8 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
    • Built a component library 81 engineers ship with every day.
  3. Senior Product Designer
    Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Ran 126 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
  4. Product Designer
    Dec 2014 - Oct 2017
    Asian Paints · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 41% with clearer copy and states.
    • Shipped the design systems redesign that lifted task completion 28%.
  5. UX Researcher
    Oct 2011 - Dec 2014
    Google · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Ran 100 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Architecture
    2002 - 2006

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