Customer experience & digital transformation

Better products start with better customer experiences.

We partner with ambitious businesses to modernize digital products, simplify complex journeys, and turn customer-centered strategy into measurable progress.

14+ years experienceAny industryCustomer experienceAI-powered delivery

Focus

Clarity + trust

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Making complex financial experiences feel simple.

Trusted by startups, enterprises and global product teams

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The challenge

Complex institutions. Human problems. Clearer outcomes.

We help organizations find the friction that matters, align teams around it, and design practical paths forward.

Improve digital adoption

Turn low-use digital features into intuitive services customers choose first.

Modernize legacy platforms

Bridge aging systems and rising expectations without losing operational control.

Simplify customer journeys

Remove friction across channels, teams, policies, and critical moments.

Improve operations

Design employee and customer experiences as one connected system.

Accelerate transformation

Move from ambitious roadmaps to focused, testable change that teams can deliver.

Build customer trust

Make every interaction feel clear, safe, transparent, and dependable.

How we help

Capabilities shaped around your challenge.

Our practice spans strategy, research, design, and delivery — each engagement is scoped to the complexity and ambition of what you are trying to change.

CX strategy

Define the experience ambition, value case, priorities, and roadmap.

Service design

Connect customer journeys to the people and systems behind them.

Journey mapping

Reveal unmet needs, breakdowns, and moments with the highest leverage.

Digital product design

Shape useful, trusted experiences across web, mobile, and assisted channels.

UX audits

Turn evidence into a prioritized improvement plan leaders can act on.

Enterprise design systems

Create scalable foundations for quality, speed, and consistency.

Product strategy

Align customer value, business goals, and feasible delivery.

AI-powered delivery

Use AI deliberately to accelerate research, design, and product execution.

Innovation workshops

Bring decision-makers together to unlock and test new directions.

Fractional CX leadership

Add senior experience leadership where and when it matters most.

Domain experience

Depth across complex industries.

More than fourteen years across fintech, banking, enterprise software, SaaS, digital products, and experience transformation.

Fintech platformsCapital marketsTrading platformsDigital paymentsSaaS productsEnterprise systemsStablecoinsInvoice platforms

Selected work

Experience that speaks to the work.

$2.48MPerformance

Financial ecosystems

Sampath Bank

Customer experience, digital platforms, enterprise systems, and scalable design foundations.

+12.8%Performance

Capital markets

DirectFN

Product design for one of the world’s leading capital market and trading platforms.

$2.48MPerformance

Stablecoin ecosystem

KAST

Financial administration, digital assets, and global payment experiences.

96.2KPerformance

Payments

Passage

Large-scale payment and transaction experiences designed for speed and confidence.

Why MindfulUX

Big-picture thinking. Hands-on where it matters.

Boutique by design. You get direct senior involvement, cross-functional perspective, and recommendations shaped for the realities of your organization.

14+ years of hands-on experience

Deep financial services context

Customer and service design thinking

Business, design and engineering alignment

Enterprise-grade design systems

AI-accelerated delivery

Implementation-focused consulting

A trusted specialist network

Client perspective

Trusted for the way we think and work.

Pathum has a unique ability to simplify complex financial products into intuitive experiences. His strategic thinking, attention to detail, and collaborative approach helped our teams align around customer needs while delivering practical solutions.
Anna Kalm
CEO & Founder - Ascentic
Beyond creating great interfaces, Pathum consistently challenged assumptions, asked the right questions, and helped us make better product decisions. His ability to connect business goals with user needs made him a valuable partner throughout the project.
Delvin Pereira
Director - Amana Bank
Working with Pathum felt like having an extension of our product leadership team. He collaborated seamlessly with business, product, and engineering, bringing clarity to complex problems and delivering solutions that balanced customer experience with business objectives.
Dhanushka Arachchige
Senior Manager, Software Development
Pathum Goonawardene, Founder of MindfulUX

14+ years
across industries

Meet the founder

Built from 14+ years of understanding problems and making better experiences real.

Pathum Goonawardene

Founder, MindfulUX — Principal UX Specialist

Pathum has spent more than 14 years working across banking, fintech, healthcare, SaaS, and enterprise products.

His work connects human behaviour, opportunity thinking, experience design, and real-world delivery.

14+ years

Experience

100+ designers

Mentored

How we work

Strategy with enough craft to become real.

We help teams understand where people struggle, shape the right opportunity, and turn it into experience improvements that can actually be delivered.

01

Find the opportunity

Understand where people struggle, why it matters, and what deserves attention.

02

Make it real

Design, test, and refine the experience until it is clear enough to move forward.

03

Deliver it well

Support handoff, launch, and improvement so the work lands as intended.

Flagship Engagement

Before investing in solutions, find the right opportunity.

A focused assessment that reveals where people struggle, why it matters, and what should happen next.

How it works

1Evidence
2Human Struggle
3Underlying Factors
4Business Relevance
5Opportunity
6Priority
7Action

Inside MindfulUX

Thinking. Making. Sharing.

Engagement models

A focused way to get moving.

Start with a clearly bounded engagement, or shape a longer partnership around your transformation priorities.

Customer experience assessment

Find where customers struggle and what to improve first.

Service design sprint

Redesign a journey, service, or process around real customer needs.

Digital product strategy

Align product direction, user needs, business priorities, and delivery.

UX audit

Identify usability, clarity, trust, and conversion issues across key screens.

Design systems

Create, evolve, and implement scalable UI foundations for speed, consistency, and quality.

Fractional CX leadership

Add senior experience guidance where and when it matters most.

Innovation workshop

Bring teams together to explore, shape, and prioritize new opportunities.

Executive advisory

Support leadership with clearer experience decisions and practical next steps.

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Ready to create better digital experiences?

Whether you are modernizing a platform, redesigning journeys, improving operations, or planning a transformation, we can help you find a clear way forward.

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