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2026

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VENKATESHWARI S.
Product Design · Interaction · Frontend
Designs in Figma. Ships in React.
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hello, I'mVenky

Product designer and developer with 9 years shipping production software across compliance, SaaS, industrial, and consumer products. I take products from Figma wireframes all the way through React and Next.js implementation - one of few designers who codes the thing they design.

My work lives where complex workflows meet real users: ISO-compliant lab systems, legal document tooling, field-operations apps, and privacy-first consumer products. I care about making complicated things feel obvious.

Experience

Founding Designer & Engineer
FlowLaunch · 2023-Present
QMS Total, DocuSwift AI, TruGold, RNexus, CalForms, Sites60, OutreachAI
Product Designer & Developer
Appspace Innovations
TaskPilot, Talk2Diary - shipped to Play Store
Full-stack Designer
Aquo Digital · 2020-2023
VideoForm, GreyMetrics
Designer & Developer
RuddBuddy - early career
Brand identity, frontend foundations

Education

Product Design & Development
Self-directed · industry practice
Microsoft UX Design Certificate
In progress
Bachelor of Technology - Aeronautical
Manipal Institute of Technology
2016

Skills

DesignUI · UX · Interaction · Design Systems · Prototyping · User Research
BuildReact · Next.js · React Native · Electron · Tailwind CSS
ToolsFigma · Procreate · Adobe Suite
CraftIllustration · Brand Identity · Motion

Connect

Projects

Six shipped products. Three deep case studies showing the full process, three focused looks at the design and outcomes.

01 · Deep case study · Web app

DocuSwift AI

A legal document intelligence platform that turns dense contracts into answers. I led design end to end - from first-time-user simplicity in Figma to the shipped React front end - and coordinated directly with the AI/ML and backend teams.

RoleLead Product Designer & Front-end
TeamMe + 2 developers + AI/ML
StackNext.js · Tailwind · Azure
Year2024
docuswift.ai
DocuSwift - hero product shot
Problem

Legal teams drown in long, dense documents. Finding a clause, checking an obligation, or comparing versions means reading pages by hand. The knowledge is there - just buried and slow to reach.

Objective

Let a non-technical legal user upload a document and get clear, trustworthy answers in plain language - without training, and without wondering where the answer came from.

Solution

A calm, single-column workspace: upload, ask, and read answers anchored to their source in the document. Every AI response points back to the exact passage, so trust is built into the interface.

01.1Who it's for

The In-House Counsel

Reviews 20+ contracts a week
Goals
  • -Find obligations and risks fast
  • -Trust the answer enough to act
  • -Compare versions without re-reading
Frustrations
  • -Manual reading eats the day
  • -Generic AI feels like a black box
  • -No link between answer and source

The Operations Lead

Owns the tooling decision
Goals
  • -Roll out a tool the team adopts
  • -Keep sensitive docs secure
  • -Zero-training onboarding
Frustrations
  • -Complex tools die after week one
  • -Security sign-off is hard
  • -Steep learning curves stall rollout
01.2Core flow
01Upload document
02AI parses & indexes
03Ask in plain language
04Answer + source anchor
05Act / export
01.3From wireframe to shipped
Lo-fi sketch
Lo-fi · hand
Mid-fi Figma
Mid-fi · Figma
Hi-fi Figma
Hi-fi · Figma
Shipped
Shipped · Next.js
01.4Design system
Type scale
Typography
Colour tokens
Colour
Components
Components
01.5Final screens
docuswift.ai
DocuSwift - primary workspace (full width)
Screen
Screen
Outcome

Shipped a complete legal-document workspace in 4 months. The source-anchored answer pattern made AI output trustworthy enough for legal users to act on - the design decision that carried the whole product. Delivered a reusable Next.js component system alongside the interface.

02 · Deep case study · Desktop

QMS Total

An ISO/IEC 17025 compliance platform for testing laboratories. I designed and built a system that turned 25+ separate audit record types, once scattered across spreadsheets and paper, into one navigable workspace - and made adding a new record type take minutes, not days.

RoleProduct Designer & Engineer
ScopeDesign system + full build
StackElectron · React · SQLite
Reach10 laboratories
QMS Total \u00b7 Desktop
QMS Total - hero product shot
Problem

ISO 17025 labs manage dozens of compliance record types for audits. Each one lived in its own spreadsheet or paper form, with different layouts and no shared logic. Building or updating a record type took hours, and consistency was impossible to maintain.

Objective

Give labs one consistent interface for every compliance record, fast enough to extend that a new record type could be added on demand - while staying audit-ready and true to the ISO standard.

Solution

A unified workspace built on a reusable record-sheet system. 90% of each sheet's logic is shared, so the interface stays identical across 25+ record types and a new sheet can be stood up in minutes.

02.1Who it's for

The Lab Analyst

Fills records during testing
Goals
  • -Log results without friction
  • -Never lose work to a crash
  • -Follow the exact ISO format
Frustrations
  • -Every sheet looks different
  • -Paper forms get lost or damaged
  • -Re-entering the same data twice

The Quality Manager

Owns audit readiness
Goals
  • -Pass ISO 17025 audits cleanly
  • -Standardise records across the lab
  • -Add new record types quickly
Frustrations
  • -Inconsistent formats fail audits
  • -Slow to roll out new sheets
  • -No single source of truth
02.2The reusable-sheet system

The core design decision: instead of designing 25+ screens, I designed one record-sheet pattern flexible enough to hold any compliance record, and constrained enough to stay identical everywhere. This is what made new record types cheap and audits predictable.

02.3Core flow
01Select record type
02Fill standardised sheet
03Auto-save to local DB
04Review & lock
05Export for audit
02.4From wireframe to shipped
Lo-fi sketch
Lo-fi · hand
Mid-fi Figma
Mid-fi · Figma
Hi-fi Figma
Hi-fi · Figma
Shipped
Shipped · Electron
02.5Final screens
QMS Total \u00b7 Desktop
QMS Total - record workspace (full width)
Screen
Screen
Outcome

Cut the time to build a new compliance record type from 3 hours to 30 minutes through the reusable-sheet system, and deployed across 10 laboratories. One consistent, audit-ready interface replaced a patchwork of spreadsheets and paper.

03 · Deep case study · Mobile app

TaskPilot

A field-team task manager built around how field teams actually work, not how office software thinks they do. Supervisors assign and track tasks; field staff update them by voice from the field. Live on the Play Store.

RoleProduct Designer & Developer
PlatformAndroid · iOS soon
StackReact Native
StatusLive on Play Store
TaskPilot - home
Task detail
Problem

Field operations run on phone calls and spreadsheets. A supervisor can't see whether a job is done without calling, and field staff can't easily log what happened on site while their hands are full. Updates get lost between the field and the office.

Objective

Close the loop between supervisor and field staff without calls or spreadsheets. Let supervisors assign and monitor in real time, and let staff update tasks hands-free from wherever they are.

Solution

A voice-first task app. Staff tap and speak to attach a voice note to the task timeline; supervisors see every task's status update live. Role-based access keeps supervisors monitoring and staff focused only on what's theirs.

03.1Who it's for

The Field Supervisor

Assigns and tracks the team
Goals
  • -See task status without calling
  • -Assign to one person or a group
  • -Spot overdue work early
Frustrations
  • -Calling to check on every job
  • -No live view of the field
  • -Updates buried in messages

The Field Staff

Does the work on site
Goals
  • -Update tasks hands-free
  • -See only what's assigned to them
  • -Log site details fast
Frustrations
  • -Typing on site is impractical
  • -Too much irrelevant noise
  • -Losing track of what's next
03.2Core flow
01Supervisor assigns task
02Staff gets notified
03Work + voice note on site
04Status updates live
05Supervisor closes loop
03.3From wireframe to shipped
Lo-fi sketch
Lo-fi · hand
Mid-fi Figma
Mid-fi · Figma
Hi-fi Figma
Hi-fi · Figma
Shipped
Shipped · React Native
03.4Design system
Type scale
Typography
Colour tokens
Colour
Components
Components
03.5Final screens
Home
Voice task
Status flow
Analytics
Outcome

Shipped to the Play Store as a working field-operations tool. The voice-first task timeline let staff update jobs without typing, and the real-time supervisor view replaced the constant phone calls that field teams run on.

04 · Case study · Mobile app

Talk2Diary

A privacy-first voice journal for India. Speak an entry in any of 11 Indian languages; the app transcribes it, tracks your mood over time, and encrypts everything on-device before it ever leaves your phone.

RoleProduct Designer & Developer
PlatformAndroid · iOS soon
StackReact Native · Sarvam AI
StatusLive on Play Store
Talk2Diary - record
Mood trends
Problem

Journaling by typing is a chore, and most journal apps assume English and treat your most private thoughts as data to mine. People who think in Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu have nowhere that feels both natural to speak into and safe to trust.

Objective

Make journaling as easy as talking, in the language you actually think in, while guaranteeing that no one but you can ever read what you record.

Solution

A voice-first journal: speak up to two minutes, get an instant transcript and a mood score, and browse your emotional trends over time. Every entry is encrypted on-device with AES-256 before upload, so only ciphertext is ever stored.

04.1Design focus

The design challenge was making privacy legible. Encryption is invisible, so trust had to be designed into the interface: clear on-device indicators, plain-language privacy copy, and a calm, unmonetised feel that signals "your attention is not the product."

04.2Core flow
01Open and speak
02Instant transcript
03Mood detected & scored
04Encrypted on-device
05Reflect on trends
04.3Final screens
Record
Transcript + mood
Trends
Languages
Outcome

Shipped a privacy-first voice journal supporting 11 Indian languages with on-device encryption and AI mood tracking. The interface made an invisible privacy guarantee feel tangible enough to trust with your most personal thoughts.

05 · Case study · Web app

VideoForm

A personalised video platform for sales outreach - web app, Chrome extension, and GSuite integration. I built and maintained the product and led a team of eight, taking personalised video from a novelty into measurable pipeline lift.

RoleFull-stack Designer · led 8
SurfaceWeb · Extension · GSuite
StackVue · Nuxt · Node
Impact60% higher open rates
videoform
VideoForm - hero product shot
Problem

Cold sales outreach is ignored. Plain text emails get low open and reply rates, and sales teams had no easy way to add the personal touch of video without a clunky, multi-tool workflow.

Objective

Let a salesperson record and send a personalised video in the flow of their existing outreach, and connect it to the CRMs they already use, without technical setup.

Solution

A web app and Chrome extension for recording and embedding personalised video, plus an embedded demo experience for trials, integrated with 100+ CRM platforms through a streamlined connection layer.

05.1From wireframe to shipped
Lo-fi sketch
Lo-fi · hand
Hi-fi Figma
Hi-fi · Figma
Shipped
Shipped · Vue
05.2Final screens
videoform
VideoForm - main workspace (full width)
Screen
Extension
Outcome

Increased email open rates by 60%, click-throughs by 20%, and replies by 10% versus conventional outreach, and cut CRM integration setup time by 8x. Built and maintained across web, extension, and GSuite while leading a team of eight.

06 · Case study · Desktop

TruGold

A tamper-proof gold measurement application with direct weighing-balance integration. It replaced a manual Excel workflow across five locations with automated purity calculations and password-protected exports that can't be quietly altered.

RoleProduct Designer & Engineer
DomainPrecious-metal measurement
StackElectron · SQLite
Reach5 locations
TruGold \u00b7 Desktop
TruGold - hero product shot
Problem

Gold measurement ran on manual Excel sheets: slow, error-prone, and easy to tamper with. Readings were typed by hand from the balance, purity was calculated manually, and there was no trustworthy, locked record of what was measured.

Objective

Remove manual entry and make the record tamper-proof - reading directly from the weighing balance, calculating purity automatically, and producing exports that can't be silently edited.

Solution

A desktop app integrated directly with the weighing balance. It captures readings automatically, calculates purity on the spot, and exports password-protected files, turning a two-hour manual process into a locked, reliable one.

Outcome

Cut gold-measurement processing from 2 hours to 20 minutes across 5 locations by reading directly from the balance and automating purity calculations, with password-protected exports that made the record tamper-proof.

More work

Other projects & experiments

Smaller builds, freelance work, and things I made just to try an idea. Screenshots coming soon.

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Personal work

When I'm not shipping products, I sketch.

Ink work, Procreate illustration, and nature studies. The same eye for detail and composition that shapes my product work - with no constraints.

Fantasy / ink illustration
Inktober sketch
Nature study
Animation still / comic
Animation still / comic