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What do you do?
I ship complex products with cross-functional teams.
For how long?
A decade. Fintech, construction, enterprise learning, security, AI.
What do you care about?
The messy middle. Where research meets roadmaps, and good intentions meet organizational reality.
Where are you now?
Designing at scale, previously building from zero to one, at NetBramha Studios.
Who are you?
I'm Ravi Shankar
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No magic. Just a lot of thinking and iteration.
Talk to users, stakeholders, and systems until the real problem shows up.
Reduce noise. Remove assumptions. Make decisions easier.
Design for today without breaking tomorrow.
Not outsourcing. Integration. Here's what that looks like.
Join standups, read the Slack channels, shadow users. Understand before suggesting.
With: PM, Engineering LeadSurface the real problems. Align the team on what to solve first and why.
With: Stakeholders, ResearcherOwn the design workstream. Ship iteratively, review with engineers, stay in the code reviews.
With: Full squadDocument decisions, build the system, make it easy for the next designer to continue.
With: Design Systems, QAI look for people who go deep on user insight. Interviews, synthesis, usability testing.
I hire for craft. Micro-animations, transitions, the details that make a product feel right.
I find people who think in tokens, libraries, and long-term component architecture.
I've hired across these disciplines before. I know what good looks like, and how to find it.
I record soundscapes. Rain on corrugated tin. Traffic through an underpass at 2 AM. Then I mix them into surround format. Placing sound in physical space scratches the same itch as placing elements on a screen. Same craft, different medium.
I collect tattoos. Not flash off a wall, but pieces I've spent months thinking about. I go to conventions to watch artists work up close. The precision, the commitment, the fact that there's no undo. It's the most honest form of design I know.
If you're interested in getting a kickass tattoo from a multi award-winning artist with over 20 years of experience, go see Godwyn. (He's the one holding the certificate here)
I paint faces into characters. Mine, mostly. Prosthetics, colour blocking, the kind of detail work where one wrong line ruins the whole thing. It's the closest I get to pixel-level precision without a screen.
All of this happens with hibiscus tea within arm's reach. Always too much of it.
If you need a design lead who works inside your team to make complex things ship, let's talk.
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