Vandana (Vinni) Munjal

Vandana (Vinni) Munjal — UX Strategist & Systems Designer at The Heritage Group. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Vandana (Vinni) Munjal

UX Strategist & Systems Designer

Vandana (Vinni) Munjal is a UX Strategist and Systems Designer who thrives in the messy reality of legacy stacks, tight budgets, and organisations still building UX maturity. With 9+ years across HR tech, SaaS, and IP products, she turns underused portals into cohesive employee experiences by pairing hands on design with governance, standards, and scalable patterns. As a first UX hire, she bridges UX and development to bring clarity to ambiguity and help teams make decisions that stick.

Past talks

1 talk · 1 event

2026

UXDX Community: Guardrails, Governance, and Trust: Getting Teams to Act on ResearchMar 2026

How to make UX matter in places where it isn’t expected

What do you do when you're the first UX hire in an organization that isn’t sure where UX fits? In this talk, Vinni shares what she’s learned about building trust, creating small wins, and turning imperfect projects into meaningful influence. As a two-time first UX hire, she has introduced design into an engineering-driven culture at GreyB Research and brought UX into everyday employee operations and enterprise-wide digital initiatives at The Heritage Group. She takes the audience behind the scenes into the systems that quietly enabled UX influence—governance models, decision-making frameworks, research loops, and cross-functional alignment. These structures helped turn imperfect projects into stepping stones toward long-term maturity. Attendees will walk away with practical strategies for earning trust, navigating constraints, and turning research into decisions that teams actually act on.

Vandana (Vinni) Munjal