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UI/UX Manager · Design Leader · 20+ Years

Transforming intricate problems into intuitive solutions that elevate the user experience.

20+ years of experience shaping digital products, leading design teams, building scalable design systems, and creating user experiences that connect business goals with real customer needs.

Portrait of Sampath Kumar Ch, UI/UX manager and design leader
Sampath Kumar ChHyderabad, India
  • 20+

    Years Experience

  • 60+

    Products Designed

  • 15+

    Designers Led

  • 12

    Major Initiatives

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Selected Work

A selection of products, platforms and experiences I've helped shape over two decades.

Showing 8 projects

02

Customer Relationship Management System

Customer Support · Sales Tracking · Data Analytics

Project Overview

A centralised, high-velocity customer relationship platform designed for customer service executives to effortlessly manage omnichannel interactions, pull up medical histories, track service tickets, and directly place medicine orders or configure long-term subscriptions on behalf of retail and e-commerce customers.

My Role
Design Lead / Experience Owner
Domain
Customer Support · Sales Tracking · Data Analytics
Platform
Web

05

Omnichannel Smart Kiosk Terminal for Retail Pharmacy Stores

Retail · Pharmacy · Self-Service Kiosk

Project Overview

An on-site retail hardware and software kiosk application empowering walk-in pharmacy customers to self-serve or consult remotely to generate instant orders and picklists. The application cuts counter wait times by splitting customer workflows into an automated self-checkout system or a multilingual, live-video agent consultation terminal with automated, next-day fulfilment for retail stockouts.

My Role
UI/UX Manager / Product Design Lead
Domain
Retail · Pharmacy · Self-Service Kiosk
Platform
Android Tablet · Kiosk

06

Finance ERP for Automated Accounting & Compliance

Accounting · Fintech

Project Overview

Imagine having all your financial operations in one place. A powerful financial system that brings together key tasks like keeping track of money, paying bills, and planning budgets. This system automates many tasks, like tracking and making sure everything is done correctly, so you can get up-to-date financial reports, manage cash flow, and make the most of resources across different departments. It's like having a single platform that helps you run your financial operations smoothly and efficiently, giving you more time to focus on other important things. With this system, you can make informed decisions quickly, optimize how resources are used, and stay on top of your finances in real-time.

My Role
UI/UX Manager / Experience Lead
Domain
Accounting · Fintech
Platform
Web · Mobile

07

MedPlus Health Check App

Healthcare · Fitness Tracker

Project Overview

A patient-centric digital health application seamlessly integrated with the MedPlus ecosystem. The platform empowers users to discover diagnostic wellness packages, securely schedule lab tests or home sample collections, track real-time processing timelines, store historical clinical health vitals, and receive smart, automated health-check reminders based on chronic profile tracking.

My Role
UI/UX Manager / System Owner
Domain
Healthcare · Fitness Tracker
Platform
Mobile · Android & iOS

08

AI-Powered Prescription Decoder Platform Engine

Health-tech · AI · OCR/NLP

Project Overview

An intelligent, cross-platform health-tech processing engine designed for both online e-commerce channels (medplusmart.com) and physical retail pharmacy storefronts (POS/Kiosk applications). The system uses advanced Computer Vision, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Medical Natural Language Processing (NLP) to instantly scan handwritten or digital prescriptions and auto-populate checkout carts. If the AI encounters ambiguous doctor handwriting, the system instantly routes the specific undecoded segment to an internal manual decoding team to complete the order via automated customer confirmation loops.

My Role
UI/UX Manager / Product Design Lead
Domain
Health-tech · AI · OCR/NLP
Platform
Web · Mobile · Kiosk

Beyond the Interface

Great design is not only about creating screens. It's about creating clarity across people, products and organizations.

01

Design Leadership

Building, hiring and mentoring high-performing product design teams across time zones and disciplines.

02

Product Strategy

Connecting user needs with business objectives, and framing design work as measurable product outcomes.

03

Design Systems

Creating scalable, governed component ecosystems that keep quality consistent as organisations grow.

04

Cross-functional Collaboration

Working shoulder to shoulder with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Business teams from discovery to release.

05

Design Operations

Improving rituals, critique culture, handoff and tooling so teams spend their energy on thinking, not overhead.

06

Executive Communication

Translating complex design problems into clear, defensible business decisions for leadership and boards.

“Good design removes complexity.
Great design makes complexity invisible.”

01

Understand Before Designing

Every meaningful solution begins with an uncomfortable amount of listening.

02

Solve the Problem, Not the Screen

The interface is the last decision, not the first one.

03

Design for Scale

A design that only works once is a prototype, not a product.

04

Measure What Matters

Craft earns trust. Evidence earns budget.

Experience

The short version — the detail lives in the case studies.

MedPlus

Design Manager (UX/UI)

2022 — Present

Lead the UX/UI function for MedPlus, setting design direction across pharmacy retail, e-commerce, master data, AI-powered prescription processing and customer-facing health services.

  • Pharmacy Point of Sale System with Offline and Auto-Recovery
  • Customer Relationship Management System
  • Masters (Internal Operations) Management System
  • AI-Powered Prescription Decoder Platform Engine
  • Mentoring designers and shaping design operations across the organisation.

MedPlus

Senior Lead UX / UI Designer

2019 — 2022

Drove end-to-end UX and UI for MedPlus customer-facing digital products, from online pharmacy to in-store kiosk and health-tracking experiences.

  • Online Pharmacy E-Commerce Platform (MedPlusMart.com)
  • Omnichannel Smart Kiosk Terminal for Retail Pharmacy Stores
  • MedPlus Health Check App
  • Established design standards that bridged web, mobile and kiosk touchpoints.

MedPlus

Lead Web Designer

2017 — 2019

Owned web design for MedPlus internal finance and compliance tooling, translating complex accounting workflows into clear, usable interfaces.

  • Finance ERP for Automated Accounting & Compliance
  • Introduced usability testing and component-first delivery for internal platforms.
  • Partnered with engineering leadership to align design patterns with implementation.

MedPlus

Senior Web Designer

2010 — 2016

Designed internal web-based operations and supply-chain tools that kept pharmacy inventory moving accurately across warehouses and retail counters.

  • Goods Receipt Note (GRN) system for warehouse intake and verification
  • Warehouse Management System (WMS) for inventory tracking and fulfilment
  • Ran discovery, IA and interaction design for large multi-stakeholder programmes.
  • Mentored a growing team of interface designers into UX practitioners.

MedPlus

Web Designer

2006 — 2010

Laid the web-design foundation for MedPlus retail operations, translating pharmacy workflows into usable, reliable software.

  • Pharmacy Point of Sale System with Offline and Auto-Recovery
  • Masters (Internal Operations) Management System
  • Built the craft foundation — typography, grid, motion and production discipline.

What I Bring

Grouped by how I work, not by software icons.

Leadership

  • Design Leadership
  • Team Building
  • Mentoring
  • Stakeholder Management

UX

  • User Research
  • Information Architecture
  • Interaction Design
  • Usability Testing

Product

  • Product Strategy
  • Design Thinking
  • Customer Journey
  • Conversion Optimisation

Visual

  • UI Design
  • Visual Design
  • Design Systems
  • Accessibility

Technology

  • Web
  • Mobile
  • Responsive Design
  • Prototyping

Contact

Have a complex problem worth solving?

I'm always interested in conversations around product design, UX leadership, digital transformation and building better experiences.