AI-First Product Designer4.3 YearsHyderabad, India

Designing the
trust layer of
AI products.

I'm Rohith Aswarth — an AI-first product designer working where human intent meets machine intelligence. I shape voice, conversational, and multi-agent experiences that stay clear, calm, and trustworthy — especially in the moments intelligence falters.

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4.3
Years designing
products
6
Companies —
startups to MNCs
3
AI platforms
shipped
1
Voice-first AI app,
shipped solo
About[ 01 / 05 ]

I design the trust layer of AI — the quiet architecture of clarity, confidence, and calm that lets people rely on intelligent systems, even when those systems are uncertain.

I'm an AI-first product designer based in Hyderabad, working at the intersection of human intent and machine intelligence. Over 4.3 years and six companies — from nimble startups to established enterprises — I've shaped AI products, B2B SaaS, consumer mobile apps, and enterprise software, carrying each from first principle to final pixel.

My practice lives in the space between research and resolution: translating ambiguity into clarity, complexity into calm, and edge cases into trust. As sole designer on MIVI AI, I brought a voice-first, multi-agent experience from day one to launch. Twice a founding designer, I've built design systems and team rituals from nothing. Fluent in the language of engineering, I treat developers as collaborators — so design intent survives intact, from canvas to code.

LocationHyderabad, India
Experience4.3 Years
FocusAI Product Design
StatusOpen to work
Selected Work[ 02 / 05 ]
Leafmesh ADK · Inside the productselected screens

A look across the platform I designed end-to-end — from the visual agent workflow canvas to observability, environments, and the developer playground.

Design Systemthis site runs on it

The portfolio you're reading is built on its own small design system — the same tokens, type, and components, applied consistently throughout. Toggle the theme and watch it adapt.

Color Tokens

Canvas
Surface
Ink
Accent
Line

Typography

Bricolage Grotesque · Display
Designing trust
Fraunces · Accent
the quiet architecture
Inter · Body
Clear, calm, and readable at any size.

Components

Primary Ghost Tag Pill
Badge → Label
My Journey2021 — 2026 · the short film
21
2021 · TEACHNOOK
The first system
First in-house designer — built a production-ready design system from scratch, used directly by engineering.
2021–22 · OZE INNOVATIONS
End to end
Owned Flipoze from research to high-fidelity UI, iterating through round after round of testing.
2022–23 · ONE LAB VENTURES
Deep on SaaS
12+ months owning B2B SaaS design — patterns, systems, roadmaps, and mentoring juniors.
2023–24 · ANGADI WORLD TECH
Enterprise scale
IA, prototypes, and hi-fi UI for enterprise software, with rigorous developer handoff and QA.
2024 · ACTIVET LIFE
Founder mode
Founding designer — built everything from zero and shipped a cross-platform MVP in under three months.
2024–NOW · LEAFCRAFT STUDIOS
AI, shipped
Three AI platforms at once. Sole designer on MIVI AI — a voice-first multi-agent app, taken 0→1.
2026 · TODAY
The trust layer
Designing where human intent meets machine intelligence — clear, calm, and built to be trusted.
Full Timeline
Sep 2024 — Present
Leafcraft Studios Current
Product Designer & Product Manager · AI Products · Hyderabad

Leading design and delivery of three AI platforms — LeafcraftStudios.ai, MIVI AI, and Leafmesh ADK — with full ownership. Established the company's first annotated Dev-Mode handoff workflow and a reusable component library adopted across all three.

Jan — Jul 2024
Activet Life
Product Designer & Product Manager · Consumer Mobile & Health Tech

Founding designer — built the design system, component library, and sprint rituals from zero, then led a cross-functional team to ship a cross-platform MVP in under three months.

Sep 2023 — Jan 2024
Angadi World Tech
Product Designer & Product Manager · Enterprise Software

Produced information architecture, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity UI from stakeholder requirements; owned developer handoff and design QA through the build phase.

Jun 2022 — Jun 2023
One Lab Ventures
Product Designer & Product Manager · B2B SaaS

Owned B2B SaaS product design end-to-end for 12+ months — defined interaction patterns, visual language, and component systems; sequenced phased roadmaps and mentored junior designers.

Dec 2021 — May 2022
Oze Innovations
UI/UX Designer · Consumer App — Flipoze

Owned end-to-end design for Flipoze, from user research through high-fidelity UI, iterating rapidly across multiple usability-testing rounds.

Jul — Dec 2021
Teachnook
UI/UX Designer · EdTech Platform

First in-house designer — defined interaction patterns and a complete, production-ready design system used directly by engineering.

Jan — May 2021
Internships — UI/UX Designer at Top Recruits (Apr–May 2021) and Cogent Web Services (Jan–Apr 2021).
Education2018 — 2021
2018 — 2021
JAIN University
BSc in Game Design · Bengaluru
How I Work[ 04 / 05 ]
001.Design failure states first, not happy paths.
002.Treat engineers as creative partners.
003.Validate early, adapt fast.
004.Build the trust layer, not just the UI.
005.Stand up systems from zero.
006.Simplify complex AI for real humans.
AI Workflow

I design with AI — not just for it.

AI is woven through my process: it accelerates exploration, prototyping, and synthesis, while judgment, structure, and craft stay firmly human.

01

Ideate & Explore

Generate and pressure-test directions fast — divergent concepts, naming, edge cases, and copy to react against.

ChatGPT · Gemini
02

Prototype Rapidly

Turn rough sketches and prompts into testable screens early, so ideas meet real users sooner.

Uizard · Figma
03

Synthesize & Critique

Cluster research, draft IA, and stress-test flows and failure states with a tireless thinking partner.

Claude · ChatGPT
04

Document & Hand Off

Draft annotations, specs, and edge-case notes faster — keeping engineering aligned from canvas to code.

Claude · Figma Dev Mode
Crafted with intentThis site, by the rules

Good design is invisible. This portfolio isn't just about UX — it's built on it. Here are the principles it follows, and where you're standing in them right now.

Hick's Law
More choices, slower decisions.
Nav trimmed to a handful of items; one primary action per section.
Fitts's Law
Targets should be large and close.
Generous buttons, a sticky header, and big tap targets on mobile.
Jakob's Law
Users expect familiar patterns.
Conventional nav, scroll, and a standard document viewer — no surprises.
Aesthetic-Usability
Beautiful is perceived as usable.
One consistent type, colour, and spacing system throughout.
Law of Proximity
Related things belong together.
Actions, metrics, and meta are grouped tightly; whitespace separates the rest.
Miller's Law
We hold ~7 chunks at once.
Content broken into clear sections and short, scannable lists.
Serial Position
We remember first and last best.
Strongest proof up front (stats), the ask at the very end (contact).
Doherty Threshold
Keep responses under 400ms.
Instant theme toggle, snappy transitions, reveals that never stall.
Von Restorff Effect
The different one is remembered.
A single amber accent marks what matters; everything else stays calm.
Why hire me

One hire. Research, product, and craft in the same person.

I close the distance between what a product should be and what actually ships — fluent across design, management, and engineering, so far less is lost in translation.

4.3 yrs

across 6 companies, startups to enterprise — AI products, B2B SaaS, consumer mobile, and enterprise software.

0 → 1

sole designer on MIVI AI, a live voice-first multi-agent app, taken from day one to launch.

3 platforms

shipped at once on one design system I built from zero — twice over as founding designer.

2+ yrs PM

writing PRDs, running sprints, and leading cross-functional teams. Design and delivery, in one.

< 3 mo

to a shipped cross-platform MVP as founding designer — speed without trading away craft.

Code-fluent

HTML, CSS, JS/TS and Figma Dev Mode — I speak engineering, so intent survives to production.

Give me a problem and a team. I'll define it, design it, and ship it.

Contact[ 05 / 05 ]
Let's make something

Let's build
something.

Open to AI product design roles and collaborations. Email me, call, or message on WhatsApp — whatever's easiest.