Sunny Babbar
User Experience Designer Carbon Design System at IBM
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSunny Babbar is a multidisciplinary User Experience Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area who blends interaction design, XR/AR/VR expertise, and industrial/interior design sensibilities to craft human-centered systems. Currently on IBM’s Carbon Design System core team, Sunny helps maintain and evolve universal UI assets while previously driving product-led growth and AI-focused UX work that earned multiple industry awards. As an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts, they teach design communication and mentor graduate students on collaboration, emotional intelligence, and storytelling. Sunny’s background ranges from app platforms at Apple to hands-on prototyping and product design—an approach that surfaces pragmatic, tactile solutions rather than purely theoretical ones. Known for iterative “Make | Test | Destroy | Repeat” experimentation, they emphasize cross-disciplinary collaboration as the fuel for innovation. Outside work, Sunny channels design into community projects and accessibility-driven home redesigns, showing a personal commitment to empathetic, real-world impact.
1 year of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate User Experience Design Immersive (10-week full-time), Certificate User Experience Design Immersive (10-week full-time) at General AssemblyMasters MDes Interaction Design | Human Computer Interaction , Masters MDes Interaction Design | Human Computer Interaction at California College of the Arts
English, Punjabi
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
carbon-design-system10
react10
gatsby9
sketch6
figma5
adobe-xd5
ux-design3
grids3
design-tokens2
ui-toolkit1
ui-design1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
sunny-babbar/carbon-website
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
gatsbyreactcarbon-design-systemibmdesign-system
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