Hi! I'm Bhavin K. Padhiyar

Designer who codes. Developer who designs. Human who empathizes with users and uses Technologies and AI to solve their problems.

Bhavin K. Padhiyar

I've spent 23+ years designing enterprise software and technically complex products. At Cambium Networks I worked on cnMaestro from day one, led UX across the product portfolio, and created and governed the Cambium Design System shared by every product. I started out as a developer, so I move easily between interaction design, information architecture and code.

I use AI every day to explore ideas and build faster. The judgement about what's right for people stays with me.

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Projects

Featured projects

Selected work from 23+ years of designing enterprise products.

Skills & Tools

The instruments I work with

What I use day to day, and how I use it

I build prototypes that behave like the real product, so we can test complex workflows with users before engineers write any code.

I build design systems from the tokens up, so web, Android and iOS teams ship the same components under the same names.

Core competency

Design

Interactive PrototypingDesign SystemsVisual DesignInteraction DesignMobile UI/UXIconographyMotion DesignDesign TokensAccessibility (WCAG)Responsive Layouts
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Career

The path so far

Where I've worked, what I built, who I built it for.

Certificates

Courses I took, certificates I earned.

Verified by the industry's leading design and technology organizations.

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Diploma in Computer Applications

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AI philosophy and ethics

AI Philosophy & Ethics
दिल के लिए मौत है मशीनों की हुकूमत

For the heart and emotions, the rule of machines is a kind of death.

Allama Iqbal· 1877–1938
  • Empathy is non-negotiable

    AI can guess what people will do, but it can't feel what the moment means to them. It might share bad news in a cheerful tone. So before AI talks to a person, a person should decide how it talks.

  • Automate the task, not the judgment

    AI can sort a thousand resumes in seconds, but it won't know that a gap year was spent caring for a parent. Let it do the busy work. Keep decisions about people with people.

  • Design for intervention

    When AI gets it wrong, saying “no, not like that” should take one tap, not three. Help you can't refuse isn't really help. Easy control is the experience, not a backup plan.

  • Honest over confident

    We trust a doctor more when they say “I'm not sure, let's check.” AI should be the same. An honest maybe builds trust. A confident wrong answer breaks it.

  • Design for the failure mode

    Every demo works. Real life doesn't: AI gets slow, wrong, or stuck. Like people, products show who they really are on a bad day, so I design for that day first.

  • Craft still belongs to humans

    AI can make a hundred designs before your coffee cools. Picking the one that feels right still takes a human eye. Speed is cheap now. Taste isn't.

Voices

In their own words

Words from colleagues and managers I've been fortunate to work with.

Contact

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Discuss a new project, job, or work, Free UI/UX review of your product, Have a sip of coffee or tea, Share book or movie recommendation, Crack jokes or talk nonsense, Or just say a casual hello! 😉

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