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Design & Innovation Leader
Portrait of Dinesh Verma

Dinesh Verma

I've spent 17+ years working across design, strategy, innovation and leadership, helping organizations build better products and stronger teams while turning good intentions into meaningful action.

How I Think

Design is how I think, not just what I build.

I believe good design starts before the making. It begins with understanding the intent, questioning the problem, seeing the wider system and grounding decisions in evidence.

Experience & Impact

I’ve worked across complexity, scale and change.

Over 17+ years, my work has spanned consulting, enterprise transformation, product and service design, innovation and entrepreneurship, working with organizations across different stages, sectors and challenges.

Across the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with teams and organizations across industries, from established enterprises to emerging ventures.

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Creatara Mobility logo
Namma Metro logo
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Government of Rajasthan logo
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Magic Edtech logo
MSME India logo
Phillips Medisize logo
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Ubamarket logo
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Leadership & Capability

Building stronger teams, better systems and lasting capability.

I help leaders and organizations build the conditions for better work to happen. I focus on strengthening leadership, developing capable teams, improving the systems around them and creating the confidence to keep growing beyond a single engagement.

Notable Initiatives & Achievements

A few markers along the way.

A selection of initiatives and achievements from across my work, brought together in my portfolio magazine.

  • 2025

    SKOCH AWARD

    Established and led the design of IFMS 3.0 platform, recipient of the SKOCH Award Winner for Silver Category in Finance.

  • 2022

    UX DESIGN PRACTICE - PWC

    Established ux design practice for PwC in Jaipur to collaborate with the Government of Rajasthan to deliver IFMS 3.0 platform.

  • 2021

    TC-EC POD

    Co-founded and managed the TC-EC Pod for PwC, envisioned to fast-track collaboration between technology and design practice.

  • 2021

    MAGICBOX

    Led the design of the award-winning MagicBox platform (2012-2014), recognized as Edtech Breakthrough Awards 2021.

  • 2019

    CREATARA MOBILITY

    Founding member of Creatara Mobility, a high performance electric vehicle startup successfully incubated at FITT, IIT Delhi.

  • 2018

    GOOGLE & WPP

    Led the design of the award-winning MARVIN app, recognized as Best Use of Tech by WPP & Google Search Excellence Awards.

  • 2018

    APP OF THE YEAR - UK

    Led the design of the award-winning Ubamarket app, recognized by UK IT Industry Awards.

  • 2017

    STAR AWARD - CX - DMI

    Won the Start Awards in DMI for notable contribution in design for customer success.

  • 2016

    WINNER - HACKATHON

    Developed Abu, a chatbot made using Google Cloud, Wolfram Alpha and Raspberry Pi.

  • 2014

    GANIT GYAN - SCERT & IIT

    Established a network of partners to deliver 500+ learning bites, designed to make mathematics engaging (VI-XII).

  • 2014

    NAS SURVEYS - MSME

    Partnered with PHDCCI to execute need analysis (NAS) surveys for MSME clusters in North India.

  • 2012

    UX DESIGN PRACTICE

    Established UX design practice for Magic Software Pvt Ltd, expanding the team from 2 to 10 members.

  • 2010

    WINNER - GOGREEN

    National Winner of the GoGreen Contest 2010 for "BUDE", a mobility concept for the elderly.

  • 2010

    XLUCID DESIGN STUDIO

    Founded Xlucid Design Studio, a product design firm partnering with 30+ clients in 2 years.

  • 2009

    NISSAN DESIGN CONCLAVE

    Finalist among the Top 5 entries in the Nissan Car Design Conclave.

  • 2008

    TOY ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

    Research and development associate for TAI to develop toy designs for Welby Impex Collectibles.

  • 2008

    AUTO EXPO 2008

    Shortlisted as Top 5 entries in the National Automotive Styling Challenge 2008.

  • 2008

    YOKE - TOY DESIGN

    Featured on National News - Doordarshan to exchange thoughts on toy design for kids.

Testimonials

What others say about working with me.

Creating a truly groundbreaking and World-Class mobile app, relies not only on behind the scenes technical innovation and expertise, but equally a simple to use, visually inspiring, consumer-facing user experience. Working with Dinesh has not only been a pleasure personally but his outstanding ability to ensure that even the most technological product appears so simple from an end-user perspective is as rare as it is essential in a World where only the very best UX will attract and engage the customer

Will BroomeCEO & Founder at Ubamarket Ltd.

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