Prateek Mehra
Senior UX Designer, AI Systems at Amazon
- Role
- Senior Ux Designer at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Prateek Mehra
Prateek is a designer exploring the frontier between cognitive architecture, systems design, and agentic AI. His work investigates how intelligent systems can evolve to reason, adapt, and collaborate — not just with human guidance, but through self-improvement embedded in their cognitive substrate.At Amazon, he has led the design of self-improving agentic architectures inspired by human cognition, integrating adaptive memory, tool discovery, and social reasoning frameworks to prototype the next generation of collaborative AI systems. His approach blends systems design thinking with computational design research, uncovering what affordances and feedback loops intelligence itself needs to become a more capable collaborator.With a foundation in computer science and a master’s in Human-Centered Design & Engineering from the University of Washington, Prateek bridges engineering precision with design inquiry. He treats design not as surface craft but as a cognitive discipline — a means of shaping how intelligence perceives, interprets, and acts in the world.His current research centers on the evolving role of design in an era of self-reflective intelligence:• How does design operate when intelligence becomes a co-designer?• What systems and representations enable human–AI symbiosis?• How can we architect intelligence that learns to design with us, not merely for us?Prateek’s work aims to advance a new paradigm of human–AI collaboration — one where cognition, design, and computation converge into a shared creative process.
Experience
Senior Ux Designer
Oct 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Advancing self-improving cognitive architectures for agentic AI — embedding design inquiry into the substrate to reveal what systems, affordances, and feedback loops intelligence itself needs to evolve as a better collaborator and learn to design for us but also with us.
Education
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
2011 — 2015
Delhi Public School, Rohini
High School
2012
University of Washington College of Engineering
Master's degree, Human Centered Design and Engineering
2018 — 2020
Skills
- Html
- Photoshop
- Mysql
- C
- Algorithms
- C++
- Django
- Data Structures
- Java
- Linux
- D3.js
- Javascript
- Microsoft Office
- Python
- Android Development
- R
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