UI Guru · IT Consultancy · Product, Platform & UX Delivery

IT consultancy for complex digital products and platforms.

UI Guru helps organisations modernise platforms, improve digital products, and move delivery forward with senior engineering, UX design, and flexible consultancy support. We stay close to the work, use AI tools where they genuinely help, and bring in additional trusted resources when the client needs broader capability.

  • Hands-on consulting across engineering, design, and delivery
  • Strong in platform modernisation, UX improvement, and technical direction
  • Extra trusted resources brought in only when the client needs them

Selected Clients

Trusted by teams across retail, energy, healthcare, government, media, telecom, and enterprise software.

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Consultancy

Built to solve delivery problems, not just fill seats

UI Guru is designed for organisations that need practical senior support across product delivery, engineering, and UX. Clients usually bring us in when delivery has slowed, platforms have become hard to change, or a product needs clearer thinking across both user experience and implementation.

The model is intentionally lean. You work with experienced people close to the work, and where the scope requires more capacity, we bring in carefully chosen specialists based on the client’s needs instead of defaulting to heavy agency layers.

Where we add the most value

  • Turning unclear delivery problems into a practical plan with the right mix of design and engineering
  • Modernising frontend and backend platforms without defaulting to expensive rewrites
  • Improving user journeys, shaping prototypes, and clarifying product direction
  • Adding senior delivery leadership while staying close to implementation quality

Services

Two ways to work together

Engineering & Delivery

Senior technical consulting for difficult delivery work

For teams that need experienced engineering leadership to shape architecture, stay hands-on, and unblock delivery without creating another management layer.

  • Lead full-stack engineering
  • Platform modernisation
  • Frontend architecture and design systems
  • Node.js APIs, integrations, and workflow platforms
  • Technical leadership inside product teams
UX & Team Delivery

Design capability and flexible resourcing when scope grows

For projects that need more than one discipline, we add UX, product design, research, design systems thinking, and trusted delivery support to form a right-sized team around the work.

  • UX research, prototyping, and interface design
  • Discovery support, service journey improvement, and design-process adaptation to fit the project stage
  • Design systems, audits, and structured documentation for growing products
  • Carefully matched specialists for the actual project need
  • Lean squads instead of inflated agency layers
  • Extra delivery capacity without losing quality or oversight

Selected Work

Proof across product, platform, and transformation work

A small cross-section of the kinds of delivery outcomes clients usually bring us in for.

Marks & Spencer

Payments · Retail

Led frontend delivery for the next-generation payments journey, supporting Apple Pay, PayPal, Worldline, and Clearpay across a modern React and Next.js stack, improving maintainability across a high-volume checkout platform.

Kaluza

Energy · Billing Platform

Built workflow orchestration and schema-first migration endpoints for a regulated multi-market billing platform spanning Belgium and Australia, helping the platform scale shared billing capabilities across markets.

CancerIQ

Healthcare · Modernisation

Modernised clinician-facing products with shared TypeScript libraries, reusable frontend architecture, and richer workflow dashboards for healthcare teams.

HMRC & DEFRA

Government · Secure Services

Delivered accessible, secure digital services in regulated public-sector environments where reliability, standards, and user-centred design all mattered.

The Economist

Media · Platform Delivery

Supported the modernisation of a high-traffic publishing platform with scalable React applications and reusable frontend patterns that improved maintainability and delivery confidence.

giffgaff

Mobile · Engineering Platform

Designed the shared React Native engineering platform used across multiple mobile teams, improving release confidence and developer experience across the product estate.

Client Range

From major enterprise programmes to earlier platform foundations

The consultancy story is built on recent flagship work, but the delivery background goes further back across media, enterprise software, telecom, agencies, and engineering-led organisations.

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UX Highlights

Selected design and research work

Aitai’s portfolio work covers product flows, interface improvements, design systems, audits, and research-led design decisions across SaaS, payments, booking, and operational tools.

Reachdesk

SaaS · Product Design

Supported gifting-platform product design work around dashboard flows and calendar integrations, including HubSpot and Calendly-related journeys.

BookitU

Booking Platform · Design System

Helped shape website and dashboard experiences while building a more cohesive design system and brand-guideline foundation from scratch.

Tapnoa

Application Redesign · UX

Contributed to application redesign work focused on clearer product flows, improved usability, and a more consistent user experience.

Billink

BNPL · UX Audit

Carried out UX audit and improvement work for Billink’s payment experience, with a focus on increasing engagement and identifying platform improvements.

People

The consultancy is led by engineering and UX together

Founder · Engineering Lead

Nisheeth Kashyap

Senior IT consultant and full-stack engineering lead with 21+ years across retail, energy, healthcare, finance, telecom, media, manufacturing, and government.

  • Leads complex product engineering, platform modernisation, and technical rescue work
  • Strong in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, GraphQL, AWS, and delivery leadership
  • Trusted for hands-on architecture, mentoring, and scaling teams without losing engineering quality
Co-Lead · UX/UI Design

Aitai Habibi

UX/UI designer with portfolio work across Reachdesk, BookitU, Tapnoa, Billink, Contic, Strange Tech, Orbzii, and Maverick Partners, with a strong focus on research-led design, prototyping, clearer digital journeys, and practical design systems.

  • Works across UX research, journey improvement, prototyping, design systems, and high-fidelity interface design
  • Improved Reachdesk triggered campaign flows and integration-related journeys around Calendly, HubSpot, and Chili Piper
  • Helped BookitU shape website and dashboard design, brand guidelines, and a structured design system approach
  • Worked across Tapnoa redesign and Billink UX-audit work to improve platform clarity and engagement
  • Uses AI tools thoughtfully within research, ideation, and design workflows where they help teams move faster
  • Adapts the design process to the product stage, team shape, and level of delivery ambiguity
  • Strongest where cross-functional teams need clearer flows, better usability, and more confident design direction

Delivery Model

Built for focused consultancy work and broader team-based delivery

1. Diagnose

We clarify whether the real need is strategy, UX improvement, architecture, execution rescue, or extra capacity.

2. Shape

We define a delivery approach that fits the project rather than forcing a fixed agency model.

3. Deliver

We either lead the work directly or bring in trusted specialists and additional resources based on the client’s needs.

4. Strengthen

The goal is not just output. It is clearer UX, stronger architecture, smoother delivery, and a better platform after the engagement.

Core Capability

Strongest across digital product engineering and UX

TypeScript JavaScript React Next.js React Native Node.js GraphQL REST APIs AWS Docker CI/CD Platform Modernisation Accessibility Design Systems UX Research Prototyping Figma AI-Assisted Delivery Workflow Automation

Sector Range

Comfortable in complex domains

  • Retail and payments
  • Energy and utilities
  • Healthcare and clinician tooling
  • Government and public services
  • Media and publishing
  • Telecom and mobile products
  • Financial services and fintech
  • Manufacturing and machine learning platforms

Affiliation

Recognised through trusted talent networks

UI Guru’s engineering lead is independently vetted through Toptal’s top 3% talent network and has delivered as part of Equal Experts and Crosstide Consulting.

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Contact

Let’s talk about the shape of the project first

Whether you need an IT consultancy partner, senior engineering support, UX design capability, or a broader delivery team, we’re happy to start with an initial conversation.