Omkar Khadamkar

Omkar Khadamkar

Product design partner for security products

AI-generated UI looks finished long before it is correct. I make design systems machine-readable — and I measure whether it worked.

Same spec, two renders. Both pass a glance — one fails an audit. Rebuilt here from the field-test specimen, so it reads in either theme. The field test →
Based Pune · works in your time zone Domain Enterprise security UX since 2020 Patent First-named inventor, US 2025/0036264
01Selected work
Shipped system
Running a design system an AI writes againstEnterprise security platform · 2022–2026

A component library got generated UI a quarter of the way onto our system. Documentation a machine couldn’t misread took it to 65%. Testing that documentation by generating from it took it to 90%. Read the case study →

~2 hrs → 15 min correction−22% design time per screen25% → 90% on-systemMethod public, system confidential
Shipped product
32 locations, one viewVMware NSX · 8 weeks · 2021–22

I argued the layout had to be replaced — then had to beat the concept my own team preferred. 43 participants picked mine. Now a filed US patent. Read the case study →

+30% completion−26% mis-clicks−155s workflowWorking recreation
Craft piece · Bulk edit
Twelve selected, twelve different valuesModel, interface and tests · 2026

Twelve rows selected, twelve different values — what should the field show? A working component you can use in the page, not a screenshot of one. 53 tests. Read the case study →

3 evaluations → converged6 directions53 tests, source publicLive wireframeBias disclosed
Field test
A rule without a value is not a rule01 · 2026

I published a claim about why AI-generated UI drifts, then built a rig to test it. The claim failed. I published that too. Read the case study →

93.2% → 100%Completeness +6.8 ptsStyle 0.0 ptsTwo failure modesSource public
Field test
One example is not documentationFollows field test 01 · 2026

If naming every value is what matters, can one perfectly documented component teach the rest? It taught nothing — and made every remaining error deterministic. Read the case study →

Null result, publishedVariance → zero6 runs · 58 propertiesSource public
Practice · Quality without authority
Nobody had to do what I said2013 – 2026

I have never had a direct report. Since 2013, getting design quality out of people under no obligation to give it to me — and what you have to build when you cannot simply decide. Read it →

0 direct reports, ever11 vendors, 4 cities5 designers on the systemGap stated first
Writing & research — where the findings started
02Practice
03Experience
YearsOrganisationRole & focus
2022 – 2026Skyhigh SecurityStaff UX Designer. Enterprise design system across SSE, ZTNA/Private Access, Cloud Firewall, CASB and reporting. AI-native documentation, drift verification, and agent tooling built for teams outside design.
2020 – 2022VMwareMember of Technical Staff (UX Designer). NSX networking and security. First-named inventor on VMware’s filed patent application for network status visualisation (US 2025/0036264).
2020FactSetSr. UX Specialist. Visual design guidelines across the product portfolio.
2019 – 2020ValuelabsSr. UX Designer. Enterprise workflows and component libraries. Design for Social Innovation award, UX Design India.
2013 – 2016Future GroupAssistant Design Manager. Guideline systems for manufacturers and buyers.
04Education
2023 – 2024UT Austin, McCombs School of BusinessPost Graduate Program, AI & Machine Learning
2019IIT RoorkeeDoctoral coursework — Inclusive Design. Completed the first semester, then left for a senior design role.
2016 – 2018National Institute of DesignMaster of Design
2009 – 2013National Institute of Fashion TechnologyBachelor of Design

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Email me one sentence about what your customer said. I reply within two working days with two start dates. Fixed-price pilots, three weeks, three Fridays — the shape and the starting price are on the Work with me page.