I turn complex, underserved user problems into products that actually work — through research that goes deeper than surveys and design that ships.
I don't design from assumptions. Every product decision I've made has been grounded in direct user engagement — interviews, surveys, field research, and usability testing. Here's the research work that shaped real products.
Awarded at the Design For Change Hackathon (2025) for the MAVI research — recognising the rigour, depth, and clarity of insight translation. The jury specifically cited the research methodology and how findings directly shaped the product's design system and information architecture.
The work I keep coming back to lives at the edges — healthcare for communities that don't trust the system, tools for children whose needs don't fit standard UX assumptions, platforms built for people who've never been the "default user." That's not a positioning statement. It's just what's happened over two years of following the most interesting problems wherever they lead.
As a developer, I was always the one questioning design decisions — noticing when a flow felt off, when an interface asked too much of the user, when something technically worked but humanly didn't. I wasn't just building software; I was observing how people struggled with it. That quiet frustration — of seeing pain points and having no formal way to fix them — is what pushed me to stop coding interfaces and start understanding the people using them.
Looking back, every role had a UX dimension to it — I just didn't have the training to act on it then. Now I do.
I'm a UI/UX Designer and Researcher based in Bengaluru with 2+ years of dedicated product design experience — and 5 years of software engineering before that. That combination isn't incidental. It means I understand what I'm asking engineers to build, why certain constraints exist, and how to design handoff documentation that doesn't create problems downstream.
Over the past two years I've worked across healthcare platforms, accessibility-focused AI tools, consumer super-apps, and offline-first mobile products. I've designed as a sole designer, as part of cross-functional teams, and shipped a live web product from design to production as a vibe-coder — without a separate developer. My research has covered rural Kerala communities, neurodivergent children, and independent musicians. What connects all of it is a commitment to understanding the human context before touching the interface.
I'm particularly drawn to products where the user population is underserved — rural communities, first-time technology adopters, people navigating sensitive or stigma-laden services. These are the contexts where rigorous UX research makes a measurable difference, not just an aesthetic one.
Open to UX/UI Designer and UX Researcher roles in Bengaluru. Also available for freelance research and design projects.