Open to senior design leadership roles

Hi, I'm James.

Enterprise product designer, 18 years in.

Currently UX/UI Manager at Light & Wonder, leading 14+ designers across 20+ enterprise products. Design systems, accessibility governance, and AI-enabled workflows are what I do — at scale, with care.

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18+
Years in design
20+
Enterprise products
5,000+
Screens modernized
14+
Designers led
Selected work

Six projects. Real outcomes.

A mix of enterprise design system work, accessibility governance, AI workflow adoption, and hands-on product design across gaming, SaaS, and platforms.

Featured project
Light & Wonder 2022 — Present Ongoing

Floret Design Platform — the enterprise design system behind 20+ products.

Contributed to the design platform unifying Light & Wonder's global product portfolio — from casino management to mobile, kiosks, business intelligence, and content management. Owned accessibility, design tokens, and documentation workstreams.

  • 20+Products unified
  • 5,000+Screens modernized
  • 65+Design system components
  • 264+Design tokens
Design Systems Tokens Documentation Storybook Governance
Floret.
65+
Components
264+
Tokens
20+
Products
87%
WCAG 2.2 Compliance
Light & Wonder 2024 — Present

WCAG 2.2 Accessibility Governance Program

Moved accessibility from reactive fixes to a governed practice across the enterprise portfolio. Component-level audits, review gates, and team enablement — 86 criteria audited across 20+ products.

Accessibility WCAG 2.2 Governance 95% Level AA
60-80%
Effort Reduction
Light & Wonder 2024 — Present

AI-Enabled Design Workflow Adoption

Practical AI integration for a 14+ designer team — Claude for research synthesis, Cursor for production code, Figma AI for design acceleration. Governance frameworks kept quality up while cutting effort.

AI Workflows Claude Cursor Figma AI
50K+
Daily active users
Scientific Games 2014 — 2022

Casino Management Dashboards

Modernized legacy casino management interfaces serving 50,000+ daily operators. Rebuilt information architecture, systematic UI patterns, and streamlined workflows — from lead designer through associate manager.

Enterprise UX Dashboards IA 35% faster onboarding
2012
Gaming UI Foundations
Bally Technologies 2012 — 2014

Gaming Software UI Foundations

Early career UI/UX work at Bally — the foundation era of what became the Scientific Games and Light & Wonder design systems. Modern UI patterns, motion, and brand execution across gaming product lines.

UI Design Motion Gaming Brand systems
3
Personal builds shipped
Independent 2023 — Present

Personal Tech Builds

Hands-on side projects that reinforce my "designer who builds" perspective — a WhatsApp automation system, a sermon presentation skill, and a YouTube thumbnail generator. Built with Claude and shipped end-to-end.

End-to-end AI-assisted build Automation Side projects
Career journey

Fourteen years across one continuous gaming ecosystem.

Growth through three companies connected by acquisitions and rebrands — Bally became Scientific Games, which became Light & Wonder. Same domain expertise, deepening through role progressions.

  1. 2022 — Now

    Light & Wonder

    UX/UI Manager

    Leading 14+ designers across 10+ products and 3 business units. Owning accessibility governance, design tokens, and AI workflow adoption across the Floret Design Platform.

  2. 2020 — 2022

    Scientific Games

    Associate Manager

    Managing a distributed design team, promoting from senior lead to first management role. Building on the design system foundation while shipping product features.

  3. 2017 — 2020

    Scientific Games

    Senior Lead — Level II UI/UX Expert

    Leading design across multiple casino management products. Modernizing legacy interfaces and building the patterns that would evolve into the Floret Design Platform.

  4. 2014 — 2017

    Scientific Games

    Lead User Interface Designer

    Joined post-Bally acquisition, leading UI design work on casino management and player-facing products. Foundation years for the enterprise design work that followed.

  5. 2012 — 2014

    Bally Technologies

    UI/UX Designer

    Gaming software UI — the beginning of what would become 14 continuous years in the same ecosystem. Modern UI patterns and motion across gaming product lines.

  6. 2011 — 2012

    Trimble Navigation

    Creative Designer

    Enterprise creative and marketing design for a global geospatial tech company. Broad exposure to enterprise brand and interface work.

  7. 2007 — 2011

    Wings Interactive

    Sr. Multimedia Developer

    Career start — multimedia, motion, and interactive work. Learning the craft end-to-end across many surfaces and clients.

Skills & tools

What I bring day one.

Practical tools and methodologies, weighted toward how they actually get used in enterprise product teams. AI workflows are part of every category — not a separate skill.

Design & Systems

  • Figma Expert
  • Design Systems Expert
  • Design Tokens Expert
  • Storybook Advanced
  • Design Ops Expert
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Suite Advanced

Accessibility

  • WCAG 2.2 Expert
  • Accessibility Audits Expert
  • Screen readers Advanced
  • Governance frameworks Expert
  • Inclusive design Advanced

AI Workflows

  • Claude Expert
  • Cursor Advanced
  • Figma AI Advanced
  • Prompt engineering Advanced
  • AI governance Expert

Front-end

  • HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS Expert
  • Design tokens in code Advanced
  • Motion / animation Advanced
  • Component implementation Advanced
  • Design-to-code handoff Expert

Research & Strategy

  • User research Advanced
  • Nielsen heuristics Expert
  • IA & workflow design Expert
  • Enterprise UX strategy Expert
  • Roadmapping Advanced

Leadership

  • Team management Expert
  • Career coaching Advanced
  • Design reviews Expert
  • Cross-functional collab Expert
  • Hiring & enablement Advanced
About

A designer who ships and builds.

The short version

I've spent 18 years designing enterprise products — the last fourteen inside one continuous gaming ecosystem (Bally → Scientific Games → Light & Wonder). Along the way I grew from UI designer through senior lead and associate manager to my current role as UX/UI Manager at Light & Wonder.

What I care about most: the quiet parts of enterprise design — design tokens, governance frameworks, accessibility standards, review rituals. That's where scale actually happens. Twenty products all agreeing with each other is a systems problem, not a screen-by-screen problem.

I'm also a hands-on maker. I still write HTML, CSS, and SCSS. I use Claude, Cursor, and Figma AI daily to build real things — not slide decks about AI. That combination of leadership at scale + hands-on execution is where I do my best work.

Outside of work: I'm a church pastor and I build practical tech tools for our congregation. It keeps me grounded in real users with real constraints — which is the same problem I solve at work, just with different stakes.

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Let's talk about what you're building.

Open to senior design leadership roles — UX Manager, Head of Design, Principal / Staff UX, or Design Systems Lead. Full-time, contract, or consulting. Chennai, remote, or open to relocation.

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Email
james.wings@gmail.com
Phone
+91 99625 89256
Location
Chennai · Open to remote & relocation
Response time
Within 2 business days