Deepu NS
Bangalore, — Let's talk

I design the platforms behind how enterprise work gets scoped, sold, delivered and remembered.

Scoped Sold Delivered Remembered

Sixteen years inside complex systems — the tooling that carries an engagement from first opportunity to the knowledge left behind after it ships.

Lead DesignerHewlett Packard Enterprise
Sixteen yearsEnterprise platforms

Work

Enterprise platforms, 2012 to now
delta Delta Knowledge management. Harvests what's learned at every sales stage and makes it findable, so the next engagement starts further along than the last one did. tacho Tacho One view of a customer engagement across its whole life — opportunity, delivery, deployment, invoicing. Several audiences, one set of numbers. mindsparks MindSparks Studio The PSD Lab. Practitioners across cloud, data, networking and security build and incubate new delivery accelerators on emerging technology. showcase, Technicolor Showcase Design system and interaction model for a content-distribution platform, from stakeholder definition through to production. bi mobility, HP BI Mobility Business-intelligence data made usable on mobile for a non-technical, distributed workforce, alongside HP's NextGen education portal.

How I work

Screens are the surface. The system is the job.

Direction across a portfolio

Setting design direction over a set of connected platforms rather than one product surface, and deciding what stays consistent between them and what shouldn't.

Craft that survives complexity

Interaction design, visual systems and heuristic evaluation applied where the complexity is real and can't be styled away.

Building the practice

Mentoring designers, and establishing the shared patterns and review habits that let a team hold a quality line without me in the room.

Decisions that survive delivery

Working with development leads, product owners and business stakeholders so design intent holds up against real constraints.

Ambiguity to shipped

Taking platform concepts from a vague brief to something in production. Most of the work above started that way.

Designing for automation

Interfaces where the system decides something and a person has to trust it, question it, or override it. Increasingly the whole job.

How the remit widened

2010 to 2026
05 Dec 2023 — now Lead DesignerHewlett Packard Enterprise Direction across platforms
04 Mar 2016 — Dec 2023 Senior UI DesignerHewlett Packard Enterprise Platform ownership
03 May 2014 — Dec 2015 Senior UI DesignerTechnicolor Product, end to end
02 May 2012 — Feb 2014 UI DesignerHewlett Packard Globalsoft Enterprise screens
01 Aug 2010 — Apr 2012 Senior Web DesignerFoxetech, Arizona (remote) Web, working remote

Let's talk about
the hard ones.

Always glad to hear from people working on enterprise products, platform design, or anything where the complexity is real.

deepu.narayanan@outlook.com
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