Jagadeesh SJ  ·  Portfolio 2026

I didn't set out to build a design system.
I set out to stop repeating myself.

Nineteen-plus years in enterprise UX. Most recently, architect of Floret: one shared language now running under 20+ products and 5,000+ screens.

Open to Director / Head of Design roles
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I'm an enterprise experience transformation leader based in Chennai. Most of my career has been spent inside large, messy, high-stakes software, casino management systems, patron platforms, floor operations, where the real work isn't the screen in front of you, it's the twenty other screens it has to agree with.

19+Years in UX leadership
20+Products unified
5,000+Screens modernized
1Joint U.S. patent
Philosophy

Great experiences are rarely the result of individual screens.
They emerge from systems.

— a line I've kept returning to, across three companies and one very large design system

Selected work04 featured · 02 research

Four initiatives that shaped how enterprise design actually gets made.

Each one solved a different kind of tangle, technical, organizational, or perceptual, at real scale, with a real team behind it.

01
Design systems · Governance

Floret Design System

Built from scratch and scaled into the shared language behind the entire enterprise product portfolio: components, tokens, and starter kits that replaced two decades of one-off UI.

65+Components
264+Design tokens
~1.5–2xFaster delivery
02
AI-assisted workflows

Floret Codegen

An AI-assisted approach built on vector search, matching design intent to production code so teams spend less time translating a screen and more time deciding if it's right.

60–80%Effort reduced, by complexity
2025In active use
03
Accessibility governance

WCAG 2.2 Program

Stood up accessibility as a governed discipline rather than a checklist: audits, standards, and enablement built directly into the design system and delivery process.

86Criteria audited
87%Overall compliance
95%Level AA
04
Innovation program

SYSrupt

Took a leadership idea born mid-pandemic and operationalized it into a five-season innovation program, owning the creative process and execution end to end, season after season.

5Seasons, 2021–2025
20+Patent concepts

Responsible Gaming, Illinois

Redesigned a limit-setting tool across carded and uncarded play, benchmarked against five UX dimensions rather than a single usability score.

PBL Click Test

A 200-participant Userzoom study that overturned the original design hypothesis: the variant that felt riskier won on both speed (16s vs 20s) and preference (76%).

On the work

The job was never the pixels.
It was the decisions behind them.

Capabilities6 primary · 7 supporting

What I actually do, in the language I'd use to hand it off.

Primary
Enterprise transformation Experience strategy UX leadership Executive stakeholder management Design systems Design operations
Supporting
AI-assisted automation Accessibility & design governance Workflow simplification User research Information architecture Cross-functional leadership Innovation programs
Journey2001 — 2026

Twenty-five years in design. Nineteen of them shaping enterprise UX.

2022

Light & Wonder

Senior Manager, User Experience

Led enterprise UX strategy across three business units, architected the Floret Design System from scratch, and led a 20-person team across Chennai, Bangalore, and Canada. Co-inventor on a joint U.S. patent application.

2014

Scientific Games

Manager, User Experience

Scaled UX from an individual practice into a structured, multi-disciplinary organization, laying the groundwork that would later become Floret.

2007

Bally Technologies

Lead, UI & Usability

Established the first UX standards and usability practices, and started progressing from craft into leadership.

2001

Design Foundations

Visual & Web Designer

Early career across eDots, Content Solutions, and Adrenalin eSystems, building the web, graphic, and interface design fundamentals everything since has stood on.

Recognition

"Your dedication to our craft and our team's outcomes has been over and above, and truly an inspiration. You will continue to elevate the organizations you work for and the user experiences you create for years to come."

President, Light & Wonder
Joint U.S. Patent Application

No. 19/412225

Co-inventor, interaction routing and dynamic content overlay innovation.

Let's talk

The best experiences don't announce themselves.
They just work.

Open to Director / Head of Design and Principal Design leadership roles. Based in Chennai, India, open to remote and relocation.

© 2026 Jagadeesh SJ Systems thinking · Design-led strategy · Simplicity at scale