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Rittim Nandi

Senior Product Designer & Creative Technologist

Senior product designer and creative technologist with 10+ years designing complex digital products across financial services, banking, fintech, enterprise, AI and emerging technology. End-to-end from discovery to delivery · strategy, research, IA, interaction design, design systems · combined with hands-on engineering across SwiftUI, React, Next.js, WebGL, Three.js, AI prototyping and computer vision, helping teams move from ambiguous ideas to production-ready experiences used by millions of customers.

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Experience

  1. Creative Technologist · Christie's

    2025–Present

    Leading creative technology and product design across immersive digital experiences, auction microsites, internal tools and 3D/WebGL storytelling.

    • Designed and built campaign microsites for Jim Irsay, De Beers, Brancusi and Pollock using React, Next.js, GSAP, Three.js, Mapbox and custom media pipelines.
    • Created an immersive Brancusi 3D environment with Three.js: GLB/FBX assets, PBR materials, HDR lighting, atmospheric fog, ambient sound and multilingual narration.
    • Built internal design and data tooling: a Figma data plugin, an auction-data scraper/API and an AI-assisted Figma-to-Vite design platform.
    • Prototyped spatial-capture workflows with SwiftUI, ARKit, Metal, LiDAR, Gaussian splats and remote GPU processing.
  2. Lead Product Designer · Raycash

    2025–2026

    Led product design for a privacy-focused fintech and self-custodial money app combining stablecoin wallets with banking-style features.

    • Designed end-to-end mobile UX: onboarding, home, account details, add money, send, activity, cards, settings and account management.
    • Translated complex crypto infrastructure into clear everyday banking-style experiences balancing trust, usability and security.
    • Built high-fidelity motion prototypes with Swift, React Native and Metal shader experiments.
  3. Head of Product · Fanfinity

    2024–2026

    Led product strategy and design for a Saudi football fan-engagement platform spanning iOS, Android, web, CRM, club websites, fantasy games and match-day experiences.

    • Recruited and coordinated a multidisciplinary product, design, engineering and QA team.
    • Built SwiftUI iOS experiences: onboarding, SMS auth, favourite-team personalisation, fixtures, fantasy football, store flows, notifications and Live Activities.
    • Built white-label club website and CMS products with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Fastify, Prisma and PostgreSQL.
    • Prototyped StadiumOS computer-vision workflows with FastAPI, YOLO, OpenCV and live camera feeds for occupancy and crowd-flow analytics.

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  4. Lead UI/UX Designer · HCL Technologies

    2020–2025

    Led UX, product strategy, stakeholder management and AI prototyping across enterprise accounts including Credit Suisse, Anglo American, Munich Re, Volvo/UD Trucks, Avaloq, Euroclear, NatWest and Deutsche Bank.

    • Built HCL AI Canvas, an enterprise AI product turning documents and research into business canvases, BRDs and PRDs with RAG-backed source evidence.
    • Implemented AI-assisted generation with OpenAI, Anthropic and Tavily: document parsing, OCR, citations and confidence scoring.
    • Supported discovery, client pitches, RFPs and senior stakeholder workshops across the account portfolio.

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  5. UI/UX Designer · Delphi Labs

    2022–2025

    Led end-to-end product design for Mars Protocol: leveraged yield, perps, spot and margin trading, lending and managed vaults.

    • Designed cross-collateralised Credit Account experiences balancing capital efficiency, risk controls and fast on-chain UX.
    • Partnered daily with protocol engineers and risk researchers; Mars v1 peaked at $350M TVL and processed 1.5M+ transactions.

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  6. UI/UX Designer · HSBC

    2018–2020

    Designed, prototyped and tested future mobile banking concepts, payments journeys and HSBC Global Money.

    • Led UI/UX/IxD for Global Money, a multi-currency wallet with instant cross-border payments, fee-free transfers and competitive FX across up to 28 currencies; launched November 2020 and grown to 1.3M+ customers by 2023 (HSBC annual reports).
    • Designed faster payment journeys scalable across 20+ markets with differing regulatory requirements.
    • Designed account details and Move Money screens for global rollout, collaborating with 20–30 designers across seven countries.
    • Specified production assets, API error states and edge-case behaviour to AA/AAA accessibility standards.

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Earlier roles

  • 2023–2025

    Portals.fi · UI/UX Designer. DeFi explorer and swap flows for liquidity providers.

  • 2024

    Deutsche Bank · UI/UX Designer. AI-supported trade-surveillance experience for compliance teams.

  • 2022–2023

    SoundCloud · UI/UX Designer. Monetisation strategy and social-posting experience for creators.

  • 2022–2023

    NatWest · UI/UX Designer. Lombard insurance product UX across quote, eligibility and application.

  • 2022

    Territory Studio · UI/UX Designer. Metaverse and immersive retail projects with Pokémon and Selfridges IP.

  • 2021–2022

    bp · UI/UX Designer. Authentication flows and Click & Collect in the bpMe app.

  • 2020–2021

    Boubyan Bank · UI/UX Designer. Core UX for Nomo digital banking; multi-market KYC onboarding.

  • 2020

    Credit Suisse · Lead Product Designer. Wealth Platform design-system foundations and visual QA.

  • 2020

    BlockEx · UI/UX Designer. Crypto trading platform: 20+ pairs, bonds and ICO workflows.

  • 2018

    Mercari · UI/UX Designer. New marketplace app across Android and iOS.

  • 2017

    Aviva / Bwin / M&S Labs / Orange · UI/UX Designer. PartyPoker redesign (1.5M+ players), insurance claims, M&S innovation concepts, Orange biometric auth.

  • 2016

    William Hill · UI/UX Designer. International betting and gaming platforms serving 10M+ customers.

  • 2014–2016

    UICentric · UI/UX Designer. Cross-platform UX: Xbox, Oculus Rift, iPad; UEFA analytics centre used during Champions League matches.

  • 2014–2015

    MoneySuperMarket / iwoca · UI/UX Designer. Comparison journeys and fintech lending UI.

Independent projects

  • TRLC-DK1, home robot

    Mobile manipulator: 2040 extrusion base, SO101 arms, LiDAR, SLAM, teleoperation; trained with synthetic data from Isaac Sim and GR00T. Documented as a public build series.

  • Airion Dynamics

    Plasma flow-control R&D: PSJA/DBD actuators, Schlieren imaging, milligram-scale thrust measurement.

  • AI FPL Manager

    ML system that drafts and manages a Fantasy Premier League squad: feature engineering, points prediction, transfer optimisation.

Skills

Design
Product strategy · User research · Information architecture · Journey mapping · Interaction & UI design · Design systems · Prototyping & usability testing · Accessibility (WCAG, AA/AAA) · UX writing
Engineering
SwiftUI / iOS / ARKit / Metal · React / Next.js / TypeScript · Three.js / WebGL / GSAP · Python / FastAPI / Go · LLMs / RAG / OpenAI / Anthropic · Computer vision / YOLO / OpenCV
Hardware & robotics
Robotics (SLAM, teleoperation, sensor fusion) · LiDAR & spatial computing · Electronics & 3D printing (FDM & SLA) · Cinema 4D / After Effects

Selected clients

Christie's · HSBC · Credit Suisse · Deutsche Bank · NatWest · Euroclear · Aviva · BP · Anglo American · Munich Re · SoundCloud · UEFA · William Hill · bwin · UD Trucks · Delphi Labs · M&S · Orange · Mercari