Hello, I'm Karthik

Product designer with 9+ years shipping real products at scale, building calm, useful experiences.

I work across mobile apps, connected-car interfaces, and conversational AI, most of it right now on the My Renault app and its voice assistant. I started in graphic design and picked up UI/UX, video, and motion along the way, so I care as much about how a product feels as how it works.

Product & UX design Conversational AI / chatbot UX Prototyping Design systems

Selected work

My Renault app case study cover

Case study · Automotive

My Renault: designing a connected-car ecosystem

Not just an app. Phone, watch, Alexa, and the in-car infotainment and voice assistant, most of it designed first in Renault, India-first, on brutal deadlines.

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Renault design system case study cover

Case study · Design systems

Shaping Renault's global design system from India

Audited a Europe-first system, built the components India actually needed, and pitched them back upstream for every hub to use.

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More explorations

Quick commerce shared cart concept
Quick Commerce: shared cart A self-initiated concept for ordering & splitting groceries together View concept →
Chennai One UX teardown
One city. One app. Finally. A written UX teardown of Chennai's unified public-transport app Read the teardown →
Streaming clips concept
The ads Netflix and Prime force on you A product POV on the ads OTT apps play before your show, and the fix Netflix later shipped as Clips Read the POV →

Experience

Tools I use

Design & craft

FigmaPhotoshopIllustratorAfter EffectsPremiere ProDaVinci ResolveLightroomAffinity

AI · brainstorming design decisions

ClaudeChatGPTGemini

AI · image generation

Nano BananaChatGPTFluxMidjourneyGrok

AI · video

Google FlowFigma WeaveGrok

About

I'm a product designer in Chennai, about nine years in. Right now I'm at Renault Group (RNTBCI), designing the My Renault app, its AI assistant, the in-car infotainment and voice assistant, and the internal tools the documentation and purchasing teams use to run car production. Before Renault, I designed websites and brand identities for clients across healthcare, real estate, education, and lifestyle.

I didn't come up through product. I started as a graphic designer and became a UI/UX designer one project at a time, teaching myself video editing, image manipulation, motion graphics, and every other craft skill along the way. I've even got design credits on 25+ films. That's the part that stuck: I care how a product feels, not just how it flows. Away from work it's chess, cricket, live music, and building side projects with AI tools.

CertificationGoogle UX Design Professional Certificate

Guest lecturesSRM University · graphic design and the basics of UI/UX

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