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UX Designer

Designing
clarity
from chaos.

Strategic UX Designer with 6+ years building high-impact digital products across Cybersecurity, Travel-tech, and AI — leveraging AI to solve complex user problems at enterprise scale.

6+Years exp.
3Industries
5Products 0→1
WCAGAccessibility first
Asif Mukthar
Asif Mukthar

UX Designer,
driven by impact.

I'm Asif Mukthar, a Strategic UX Designer based in Bengaluru, India. I specialise in building high-impact digital products that work at enterprise scale — translating complex technical systems into experiences that are intuitive, scalable, and measurable.

Over 6 years I've worked across Cybersecurity (OpenText), Travel-tech (Quick Rentals), and AI Products (Pixis) — shipping products that reduced booking friction by 40%, achieved 85% beta satisfaction, and improved task completion rates by 30%.

I bring AI into every part of my workflow — from research synthesis and rapid ideation to prototype generation and design QA. Equally, accessibility isn't a checkbox for me — it's baked into how I design from the first wireframe. Every product I ship is built to work for everyone.

Design & Prototyping
FigmaAdobe SuiteBlenderMiroFramerHTML & CSS
AI Tools
ClaudeGitHub CopilotMagic PatternsFigma AICursorChatGPT
Workflow & Collaboration
JiraAsanaMS Office
GoogleUX Design Professional Certificate
GoogleFoundations of Project Management
UdemyHow To Design for Accessibility: for UX Designers (WCAG 2.2)
IxDFAccessibility: How to Design for All
LinkedInInteraction Design: Interface
Affiliations
IxDFMember, Interaction Design Foundation
FreepikLevel 2 Contributor
Design Philosophy

Accessibility and AI augmentation aren't add-ons — they're how I design. I use AI tools daily to move faster and explore wider, while ensuring every product I ship meets WCAG standards and works for all users, not just the median.

Recent projects.

001 / OpenText Cybersecurity
Enterprise Security Manager
SIEMEnterprise UXCybersecurity
Enterprise Security Manager
OpenText · 2025 – Present

Redesigning the UX of a market-leading SIEM platform — real-time threat detection, correlation dashboards, and SOC analyst workflows at enterprise scale.

90% Reduction in daily alerts
3h Saved daily per analyst
35% Cost savings via licensing
002 / OpenText Cybersecurity
Core Application Security (Fortify)
AppSecDevSecOpsSaaS
Core Application Security (Fortify)
OpenText · 2025 – Present

UX design for the only AppSec platform offering SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST & MAST as a unified service — enabling security at DevOps speed.

5-in-1 Unified testing: SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, MAST
98%+ False positive reduction
Leader: Gartner, Forrester, IDC & G2
003 / OpenText Cybersecurity
Application Security Aviator
AI / LLMSASTAuto-remediation
Application Security Aviator
OpenText · 2025 – Present

Shaping the UX of OpenText's AI code security assistant — AI-driven triage, contextual fix suggestions, and auto-remediation embedded into developer workflows.

1d→1h MTTR reduction with Aviator
1,500 Apps onboarded in first 8 weeks
10+yr AI/LLM research in AppSec
004 / Quick Rentals
Fastride — Car & Bike Rental
Mobile ApplicationMobilityTravel-tech
Fastride
Quick Rentals · Jan–Dec 2024

A streamlined car and bike rental platform for Thailand — end-to-end mobile app and web design covering booking flow, onboarding, real-time notifications, and admin tools.

40% Reduction in booking steps
85% Satisfaction in beta testing
E2E Full product — app to admin

Where I
excel.

From discovery and research to pixel-perfect delivery and cross-functional handoff — I cover the full product design process.

UX / Product
User Research & Usability Testing92%
Interaction Design & Wireframing95%
Data-Driven & Cross-platform Design90%
Design Systems & Delivery
Design Systems & Prototyping94%
Stakeholder Management88%
Agile & Cross-team Collaboration90%
Visual & Motion
Web Design & HTML/CSS82%
Motion Graphics78%

Design
amplified by AI.

I actively integrate AI into my design practice — not to replace thinking, but to amplify it. From AI-driven research synthesis to prototype acceleration, AI helps me ship better work faster.

AI Feature Design

At OpenText I drove the UX for AI-powered features inside Application Security products — including code analysis, auto-remediation UX, and vulnerability triage interfaces that reduce analyst burden.

AI-Assisted Prototyping

I use tools like Cursor, Claude, and Figma AI to accelerate prototyping — generating interactive mockups and design scaffolding that let me test ideas with users days faster.

Chat & Avatar UX

At Pixis I designed the UX for AI-driven chat assistance and custom avatar generation — resulting in a 40% increase in user interaction time and a 70% reduction in profile setup time.

Research Synthesis

I apply AI to analyse user interview transcripts, cluster insights, and surface patterns — compressing days of affinity mapping into hours of synthesis that directly informs design decisions.

Beyond the Brief

Side projects,
experiments
& obsessions.

Beyond client work, I build things for myself — tools, prototypes, and ideas that scratch a creative or technical itch. These are the experiments where constraints disappear and curiosity takes the wheel.

Drag to explore
Current Obsession
Experience Lab

Automating design quality through configurable AI intelligence. Audit your Figma designs before they are shipped — catching friction, inconsistency, and accessibility issues at the source.

🧩
Configurable

Beyond Pre-built Rules

Users define the Persona and Audit Criteria, letting the agent evaluate designs against specific team needs.

🔗
Holistic

Task-Flow Context

Focuses on end-to-end task flows rather than isolated screens — catching friction that traditional audits miss.

📋
Actionable

Actionable Findings

Results as structured, issue-based findings categorised by risk with clear recommendations for remediation.

More experiments
coming soon

6 years of
impact.

Strategic UX Designer with a track record across cybersecurity, AI products, and travel-tech — delivering measurable product outcomes at every stage.

Feb 2025
Present
UX Designer
OpenText, Bangalore
Full-time
Jan 2024
Dec 2024
Sr. UX Designer
Quick Rentals, Bangkok
Full-time
Mar 2023
Dec 2023
UI/UX Designer
Pixis, Bangalore
Full-time
Jan 2020
Feb 2023
UI/UX Designer
Techzia, Bangalore
Full-time
2017
2021
B.Tech, Computer Science
MEA Engineering College
Education

Let's make
something
great.

Open to freelance projects, full-time opportunities, and product collaborations. Reach out — I'd love to hear what you're building.

OpenText Cybersecurity · SIEM · Enterprise UX

Enterprise Security
Manager

Redesigning the UX of a market-leading SIEM platform — making real-time threat detection and SOC analyst workflows faster, clearer, and more actionable at enterprise scale.

Company
OpenText
Role
UX Designer
Timeline
Feb 2025 – Present
Domain
Cybersecurity / SIEM

About the Product

OpenText™ Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is a powerful, adaptable SIEM platform designed for enterprise Security Operations Centers. It offers comprehensive data collection and real-time threat analysis, backed by an industry-leading correlation engine that alerts security analysts to threat-correlated events as they occur — dramatically reducing the time to detect, react to, and triage cybersecurity threats.

ESM integrates native SOAR capabilities — enabling SOC teams to streamline operations, automate repetitive workflows, and respond to threats with speed and precision. With support for more than 450 event sources and the ability to analyse over 100,000 events per second, ESM delivers enterprise-wide event visibility at a scale few platforms match.

Key Product Metrics

90%
Reduction in daily alerts needing investigation
100K+
Events analysed per second
450+
Supported event sources

Core Capabilities

Real-Time Threat Correlation

Industry-leading correlation engine detects and escalates threats as they occur — minimising Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) for SOC analysts.

Native SOAR Integration

Built-in Security Orchestration, Automation and Response with out-of-the-box playbooks, incident management, and SOC analytics — eliminating the need for a separate SOAR tool.

Threat Intelligence Feed

Integrates open-source threat intelligence data automatically through a native feed — ensuring security teams are always informed about the latest threats without manual configuration.

Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Aggregates, normalises, and enriches data from across the entire enterprise — providing SOC analysts with a unified, contextualised view of their security posture across all systems.

Customisable Dashboards

Personalised SOC metrics dashboards and on-demand or scheduled reports support compliance, operational efficiency, and executive visibility — all configurable to the analyst's workflow.

Flexible Deployment

Supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments — scaling to handle 100,000+ events per second and adapting to complex enterprise security requirements across any infrastructure.

My Role as UX Designer

  • Drove the development and integration of AI-powered features into Application Security products, enhancing vulnerability detection by identifying next-generation threat patterns.
  • Spearheaded UX design for Connector Management — improving how enterprise security teams configure and manage data sources feeding into the SIEM.
  • Worked on the Enterprise Security Manager interface, significantly improving data integration workflows and customer access patterns for security analysts.
  • Collaborated with product managers and engineering to translate complex security domain requirements into intuitive, scalable interface designs.
Enterprise UXSIEMSOC WorkflowsDashboard DesignAI FeaturesFigma
OpenText Cybersecurity · AppSec · DevSecOps

Core Application
Security (Fortify)

UX design for the industry's only AppSec platform offering SAST, DAST, SCA, and MAST as a unified service — enabling continuous security testing at DevOps speed and scale.

Company
OpenText
Role
UX Designer
Timeline
Feb 2025 – Present
Domain
Application Security / SaaS

About the Product

OpenText™ Core Application Security (Fortify) is an Application Security as a Service platform — a complete, cloud-based solution giving organisations the tools, training, expert management, and integrations to build and expand their software security assurance programs.

Fortify is the only AppSec provider in the market to offer SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, and MAST as a unified service. It supports secure development through continuous feedback to the developer's desktop at DevOps speed, with security testing embedded directly into the development toolchain. Recognised as a market leader by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and G2.

Key Product Metrics

5-in-1
SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST & MAST unified
1 Day
Time to launch an AppSec initiative
24/7
Expert support with dedicated account management

Core Capabilities

Unified AppSec Testing

The only solution to offer SAST, DAST, MAST, IAST, and SCA as a unified cloud service — eliminating the need to stitch together multiple vendors for full application security coverage.

Expert Audit & False Positive Removal

All scans include a full expert audit of results — removing false positives and ensuring findings are accurate, prioritised by criticality, and immediately actionable by development teams.

CI/CD & DevOps Integration

Integrates into toolchains including Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and GitLab — enabling automated security scanning at every stage of the pipeline without slowing release velocity.

Compliance Coverage

Supports OWASP Top 10, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and NIST — with automated policy enforcement and customisable compliance reporting for stakeholders and auditors.

AI Code Analysis (SAST Aviator)

Includes AI-powered SAST Aviator for intelligent triage, false positive suppression, contextual code fix suggestions, and auto-remediation — reducing developer toil and accelerating secure delivery.

Scalable SaaS Architecture

Cloud-based with no on-premises infrastructure required — scales from a handful of applications to thousands, with flexible consumption via Assessment Units and dedicated Customer Success management.

My Role as UX Designer

  • Designed the UX for AI-powered application security features, improving the developer and analyst experience for vulnerability detection and triage workflows.
  • Worked on Connector Management and data integration patterns connecting Fortify findings into broader security operations workflows.
  • Contributed to improving customer-facing dashboards — helping security teams understand and act on vulnerability data faster and with less friction.
  • Partnered with product and engineering teams to align design decisions with real security workflows, informed by research and usability testing.
AppSec UXSaaS DesignDevSecOpsDashboardVulnerability ManagementFigma
OpenText Cybersecurity · AI / LLM · SAST

Application Security
Aviator

Shaping the UX of OpenText's AI code security assistant — AI-driven triage, contextual fix suggestions, and auto-remediation embedded directly into developer and security workflows.

Company
OpenText
Role
UX Designer
Timeline
Feb 2025 – Present
Domain
AI Security / AppSec

About the Product

OpenText™ Application Security Aviator™ is an AI Code Security Assistant (ACSA) — a generative AI capability built directly into the OpenText Application Security platform. Backed by more than 10 years of AI and LLM research applied to security, Aviator intelligently audits SAST scan results, suppresses false positives, and delivers clear, context-rich explanations and fix recommendations at scale.

Aviator embeds directly into developer environments and CI/CD pipelines — providing real-time contextual explanations and automated code fixes for SAST vulnerabilities. Its auto-remediation capability can generate and apply validated fixes to eligible findings, shrinking remediation timelines from days to minutes.

Key Product Metrics

1,500
Applications onboarded in first 8 weeks of internal deployment
Days→Min
Remediation timeline reduction via auto-fix
10+ yrs
AI/LLM experience applied to practical AppSec

Core Capabilities

AI-Driven SAST Triage Engine

Automatically classifies issues as true or false positives — reducing triage noise and letting security teams focus attention on real risk, with configurable suppression logic.

Contextual Code Fix Suggestions

Delivers accurate, role-relevant fix recommendations grounded in actual source code context — reducing remediation time with actionable, precise guidance for developers.

Auto-Remediation

Automatically generates and applies validated fixes to eligible findings via CI/CD pipelines — creating pull and merge requests automatically, shrinking exposure windows significantly.

Developer-Ready Explanations

Builds developer trust with source-aware, natural language explanations for every finding — improving collaboration between security and development teams without requiring deep AppSec expertise.

Server-Side Orchestration

Enables security teams to roll out Aviator organisation-wide through server-side configuration — without requiring each developer to modify their own pipeline or install new tools.

Flexible Deployment

Available as SaaS, on-premises, or private/public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) — integrates with existing Fortify infrastructure, turning current SAST programs into AI-enhanced risk reduction engines.

My Role as UX Designer

  • Drove the UX design and integration of AI-powered features into Application Security products — focusing on next-generation threat identification and vulnerability detection workflows.
  • Designed interface patterns for AI-driven SAST triage — making complex AI outputs readable, trustworthy, and actionable for both security analysts and developers.
  • Worked on the UX for contextual code fix suggestions and auto-remediation flows — ensuring AI output integrated naturally into developer environments and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborated with AI/ML teams to translate model outputs into clear, human-centred experiences that build trust and reduce friction in security workflows.
AI UXSASTLLM Interface DesignDevSecOpsAuto-remediationFigma
Quick Rentals · Mobile Application · Mobility · Travel-tech

Fastride

End-to-end UX design of a self-drive car and bike rental platform built for Thailand — from onboarding and booking flow to real-time notifications and admin tools, designed as the founding team's Senior UX Designer.

Company
Quick Rentals, Bangkok
Role
Senior UX Designer (Founding Team)
Timeline
Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
Domain
Mobility / Travel-tech

The Problem

Thailand's self-drive rental market is booming — digital booking platforms captured 63% of car rental transactions in 2025, growing at a 9.28% CAGR. Yet despite this growth, the experience for renters remained riddled with friction, mistrust, and inefficiency.

Existing platforms suffered from a cluster of compounding problems: hidden pricing and opaque fees that only surfaced at checkout, forcing users to abandon bookings late in the flow. Language barriers locked out a large portion of international tourists — Thailand welcomed 32.9 million foreign visitors in 2025 alone — who struggled through Thai-only interfaces and confusing insurance options. Rigid payment requirements (credit card-only deposits) blocked users with debit cards or local bank accounts, a friction point surfacing repeatedly in real user reviews of incumbent platforms. Beyond payment, long paperwork-heavy pickup processes, poor real-time communication, and a complete absence of post-booking notifications left renters anxious and uninformed. On the admin side, fleet operators had no unified tool to manage availability, reservations, or vehicle status in real time — relying instead on spreadsheets and phone calls.

Fastride was designed to fix all of this from the ground up — building trust through transparency, and convenience through a booking flow that puts the user in control at every step.

Key Outcomes

40%
Reduction in steps to complete a booking
85%
Satisfaction rate in beta testing with target users in Thailand
E2E
Full product design — app, web & admin — from zero

What I Designed

Onboarding & Identity Verification

Designed a streamlined onboarding flow that handled document upload (passport, IDP), licence validation, and account creation in a single coherent journey — reducing drop-off at the critical first-touch moment.

Booking Flow

Rebuilt the booking experience from scratch — reducing steps by 40% through smart defaults, progressive disclosure of pricing (zero hidden fees), and inline insurance selection with plain-language explanations. Users could complete a reservation in under 3 minutes.

Real-Time Notifications

Designed a full notification system covering booking confirmation, vehicle readiness, rental start/end, late return warnings, and damage reporting — keeping users informed at every stage without overwhelming them.

Admin Panel

Designed a web-based admin dashboard for fleet operators — covering vehicle availability management, live booking status, driver verification queue, revenue reporting, and customer support tooling.

Transparent Pricing UI

One of the most praised design decisions in beta: a cost breakdown component that showed base rate, insurance tier, fuel policy, and deposit clearly before checkout — directly addressing the hidden-fee mistrust that plagued competitors.

Design System

Built and maintained a cohesive design system ensuring brand and UX consistency across the mobile app, responsive web platform, and admin interface — spanning typography, components, motion, and interaction patterns.

My Role — Senior UX Designer, Founding Team

  • Joined as the sole designer in the founding team — responsible for the entire UX vision, from initial research and competitive analysis of the Thailand mobility market through to final handoff.
  • Led UI design initiatives for the car rental application, ensuring brand consistency and aligning design assets with company goals across web and mobile surfaces.
  • Redesigned the booking flow, reducing the steps needed to complete a reservation by 40% through user testing and iterative prototyping.
  • Conducted usability testing with target users in Thailand, achieving an 85% satisfaction rate in beta — directly informing final design decisions before launch.
  • Developed a cohesive design system, ensuring a unified interface across the mobile app, web platform, and admin panel.
  • Worked closely with engineering and product leadership to balance design ambition against technical feasibility and timeline constraints in a fast-moving startup environment.
Mobile AppEnd-to-End DesignDesign SystemAdmin DashboardUser ResearchThailand MarketFigma

View the Case Study

The full case study is available as an interactive Figma prototype — covering the complete design process, research findings, wireframes, and final UI across all surfaces.

View Figma Case Study ↗
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