2026
The Charter
An admin console and member app for a private founders' club running gatherings across three cities.
- Product design
- Design system
- Web app
- Mobile app
Messy work in. Simple systems out.
I'm Nishad, a product designer who also builds AI automations. For over five years I've helped teams cut out repetitive manual work, make complicated tools feel easy, and get things done faster.
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At a glance
5+
years designing products
20+
projects shipped
3
companies where I led design
25,000+
founders in the community I designed for
Teams and brands I've worked with
The Charter
KPMG
Kansai Nerolac Paints
CLXNS Technologies
EV-Juice
Talent Club
Lawyantra
Mind Guess
Kryp Media
- The Charter
- KPMG
- Kansai Nerolac Paints
- CLXNS Technologies
- EV-Juice
- Talent Club
- Lawyantra
- Mind Guess
- Kryp Media
Services
What I can do for you
Three ways I usually help. Most projects end up using a bit of all three.
Product and UX design
Apps, dashboards and websites that people understand on the first try. I start with what someone is actually trying to get done, then remove everything that gets in their way.
What you get
- A clear picture of your users and their journey
- Wireframes and clickable prototypes
- Polished screens
- A design system your developers can build from without guessing
AI automation systems
Most teams lose hours every week copying, pasting, chasing and sorting. I find where that time goes and build systems that handle it: sorting incoming requests, organising files, filling in sheets, sending updates, and drafting reports.
What you get
- A simple map of how work happens today
- A working automation connected to the tools you already use
- An easy screen to keep an eye on it
- Handover notes your team can follow
Design leadership and brand
I've led design as Chief Design Officer at three companies. I can set the visual direction, build a brand that holds together, and keep every touchpoint consistent as the team grows.
What you get
- Brand identity
- Campaign and event visuals
- Design standards
- Support with critique and hiring
Work
Selected work
Six projects across admin consoles, mobile apps, kiosks and immersive platforms. Each one started with a real problem.
- Read the story
2023 to 2024
Digital X
One internal platform for running marketing campaigns and loan collections, built for lenders like Bajaj Finance.
+37%user engagement
Read the story- UI/UX
- Web app
- Dashboard
- Data visualisation
3 months
KPMG
A secure system for managing VR presentations, 360° video sessions and event setups.
Read the story- UI/UX
- Web app
- User flow structuring
Toronto, Canada
EV-Juice
A mobile app for EV drivers in Toronto to find chargers, pay from a built-in wallet, and track their charging.
Read the story- UI/UX
- Mobile app
- User flow structuring
1 month
Talent Club
A networking platform bringing creative talent, recruiters and brands together.
Read the story- UI/UX
- Web platform
- User dashboard
- Information architecture
In-store kiosk
Nerolac Paint+ Corner
An in-store kiosk that helps paint dealers and sales staff reach the right tools in a couple of taps.
Read the story- UI/UX
- Web app
- User flow structuring
These are representative screens shared with permission for portfolio purposes. Full projects and source files stay private under NDA.
Automation
Less busywork. More real work.
Automation isn't about replacing people. It's about taking the boring, repetitive part off their plate so they can spend time on work that actually needs a human.
Before: Everything by hand
- A new lead arrives by email
- Someone copies it into a spreadsheet
- Someone renames the attachment and files it
- A follow up gets forgotten
- On Friday, someone spends two hours building a report
After: The system handles it
- The lead is read, sorted and added to the sheet automatically
- Files land in the right folder with the right name
- Follow ups go out on time
- The Friday report is ready before anyone asks
An example of the kind of system I build.
Before: Everything by hand
- A new lead arrives by email
- Someone copies it into a spreadsheet
- Someone renames the attachment and files it
- A follow up gets forgotten
- On Friday, someone spends two hours building a report
After: The system handles it
- The lead is read, sorted and added to the sheet automatically
- Files land in the right folder with the right name
- Follow ups go out on time
- The Friday report is ready before anyone asks
An example of the kind of system I build.
Systems I build
Lead and inquiry sorting
New requests get read, tagged and sent to the right person automatically.
File and document organiser
Incoming files get named, sorted and stored where your team expects them.
Reports that build themselves
Weekly numbers pulled together and summarised, without anyone spending their Friday on it.
Smart forms and onboarding
Forms that adapt to who's filling them in, and set up everything that comes next.
Internal dashboards
One clear screen showing what's happening, instead of five tabs and a spreadsheet.
AI assistant for your documents
Your team asks questions in plain language and gets answers from your own documents.
How I build it
Sit with the problem
I watch how the work actually happens today and count every step.
Map it out
I draw the current process and mark which parts a machine can safely handle and which need a person.
Build small first
One working piece, tested with the real team, before anything bigger.
Make it easy to use
A simple screen, clear alerts, nothing hidden or scary.
Hand it over
Clear notes and training for your team, and I stay around if you need me.
Your data stays yours
When information is sensitive, I can run AI models on your own machines so nothing leaves the building.
Design and automation, together
At The Charter, I designed a questionnaire builder so the team could update their membership application themselves instead of waiting on engineers. Same idea, different tool: take the manual step away.
Experience
Where I've worked
Chief Design Officer, The Charter
Mumbai
Led design for an invitation-only club of founders and investors across Mumbai, Delhi NCR and Bangalore, a community of 25,000+ founders. I owned everything people saw, from the brand and event visuals to the admin console and member app, and kept it all feeling premium and consistent.
January 2026 to September 2026
Chief Design Officer, Mind Guess
Mumbai
Shaped how the company's products looked and worked, including AR/VR interfaces and dashboards for connected devices. Built a shared design system so several teams could move faster without drifting apart, and used motion to make interactions feel clear and alive.
July 2024 to November 2025
Chief Design Officer, Lawyantra
Mumbai
Took complicated legal processes and turned them into screens ordinary people could follow. Owned the full brand and product experience, and worked with product, tech and marketing to balance what users needed with what the business needed.
February 2024 to July 2025
UI/UX Designer, CLXNS Technologies
Mumbai
Led a small team of designers building web platforms. Reworked how information was organised across the product, which lifted user engagement by 37%.
August 2023 to January 2024
UI/UX Designer, Kryp Media
Mumbai
My first design role. Designed campaigns and product platforms across different industries, moved quickly on feedback, and added the small motion details that make a product feel finished.
March 2022 to August 2023
Toolkit
What I work with
Design
Figma is home. The rest come in for motion, prototypes and visuals.
- Figma
- Framer
- ProtoPie
- Adobe XD
- Sketch
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- After Effects
- Premiere Pro
Research and testing
So decisions come from real people, not opinions in a meeting.
- Maze
- Hotjar
- Optimal Workshop
- Dovetail
- FigJam
- Miro
Building and automation
I build working prototypes and automations, not just pictures of them.
- Claude Code
- Gemini CLI
- MCP servers
- HTML
- CSS
- Git
AI models
I pick the model for the job. For example, Llama runs locally when client data can't leave the machine, and Qwen helps check how copy holds up in other languages.
- Claude
- Llama
- GPT-OSS
- Qwen
- GLM
- Nemotron
Immersive and 3D
- Blender
- Spline
- Unity
Team workflow
- Notion
- Jira
- Confluence
- Asana
- Slack
About
Engineer by training, designer by choice.
I studied computer engineering, but I always cared more about how software felt than how it was written. That's still the job. I design the parts people never notice, so the parts they do notice feel effortless.
These days that includes the systems behind the screens: automations that take repetitive work off people's plates so they can focus on what matters.
My engineering background means I know what's quick to build and what's expensive, and I can talk to developers in their own language.
I design the parts people never notice, so the parts they do feel effortless.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
St. John College of Engineering and Management (Mumbai University), Palghar
2018 to 2022
Diploma in Information Technology
Pravin Patil Polytechnic (MSBTE), Bhayandar
2014 to 2017
Contact
Let's build something people don't have to think about.
Full-time roles
Hiring for your team?
I'm open to full-time product design and design leadership roles. Hybrid or remote, and happy to relocate.
Freelance projects
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what's slowing your team down, or what you want to build. I'll get back to you with honest thoughts on whether I can help.
Or reach me directly
- Phone
- +91 98194 70873
- Based in
- Mumbai, India