I make complex systems feel simple.
Selected work
Enterprise platforms, financial data and one passion project. Each row opens the full case study.
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Employee Center Experience
Enterprise, GenAI 500+ tools into one platform, praised by employees and the CIO
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Customer Intelligence Dashboard
Financial services, NLP 102M calls a year made searchable for call centre analysts
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Associate Talent Portal
HR tech, enterprise Spreadsheets replaced with personalised learning paths
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Quotes Management Dashboard
Insurance, Salesforce Manual follow-ups automated for agents and agency owners
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Victory Capital Management
Asset management
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Trekking Assistant App
Mobile, travel Routes, budgets and SOS in one app for solo and group trekkers
How I work
I trained in literature before I trained in design. The habits of a careful reader turned out to be the habits of a good designer.
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Read closely
Interviews, testing and research until I can retell a user’s day in their own words.
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Find the plot
Journey maps and synthesis to find the one problem actually worth solving.
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Edit hard
Prototype fast, then cut. Every screen and every field has to earn its place.
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Test the ending
Validate with users and stakeholders, measure what changed, and iterate.
From literature to interfaces
Literature taught me how stories mirror human experience. Design gave me a way to act on it. I’m a self-taught UX designer, and I’ve spent my career making large, messy systems feel obvious to the people who use them every day.
My work spans UX research, design thinking, and sustainable, scalable design. Whether it’s an enterprise portal used by thousands or a mobile app for a weekend trek, the goal is the same: less effort for the user, more clarity in every step.
- Based in
- Chennai, India
- Currently
- UX designer, Cognizant AI & Data practice
- Focus
- Enterprise platforms, fintech, GenAI products
- Languages
- Tamil, English
Beyond the screen
- KalaigenFounder
A Chennai UX education startup that teaches through critique, not lectures.
- Tea TalkHost
A podcast for our design team on craft, careers and the ideas shaping our work.
- TipsterContributor
A weekly design-tip newsletter for designers across the practice.
- Naan MudhalvanVolunteer trainer
Placement training with Cognizant and the Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Change Maker awardRecognition
For outreach work helping students get into design and tech careers.
Tools
- Figma and Figma Make
- Framer
- Miro
- Lovable
- Emergent.io
- Claude + MCP
- WordPress
Practice
- Design thinking
- Human-centred design
- Design research
- Rapid prototyping
- Co-creation workshops
- Product and brand strategy
- Sustainable, scalable design
On my desk
- Design of Everyday Things
- 101 Design Methods
- Never Split the Difference
- Attitude is Everything
- The Power of your Subconscious Mind
Learning has no horizons.