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Turn requests into product questions
QUESTION THE BRIEF · TRACE THE RISK
Vignesh Gnanasekaran
✓Principal Product DesignerEnterprise systems thinkerAI product builderFounder & hands-on ICPrincipal Product Designer
I find the product behind the request - then design the system that makes it work.
13+ years shaping enterprise SaaS, healthcare, AI, and 0→1 products - from problem framing and interaction models through shipped systems and measurable outcomes.
EXPERIENCE ACROSS
METHOD / GLOBALLOGICBOOMERANGZOHOSCOOL PANDAPEARSON
ABOUT MY WORK
I work hands-on across product direction, business logic, workflows, AI behaviour, and interaction design. Sometimes that means redirecting the original brief. Sometimes it means turning a fixed feature into a reusable system. And sometimes the evidence says not to build at all.
13+YEARS OF PRODUCT DESIGN
250k+THOUSAND+ BUSINESSES IN PLATFORM CONTEXT
20+DESIGNERS ADOPTED AI REVIEW TOOL
3+GLOBAL TEAM REGIONS
Case Studies & Projects
Different industries, same problem: systems that outgrew their interface.
What Changes Beyond the Screen
The parts of the work I help a design team make clearer, safer, and reusable-not just more polished.
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Make complex logic visible
EXPOSE THE LOGIC · DESIGN THE STATES
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Give AI clear boundaries
SET THE BOUNDARIES · TEST THE BEHAVIOUR
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Leave behind reusable standards
SYSTEMISE THE PATTERNS · RAISE THE BAR
Experience
A compressed view of the roles and responsibilities behind the work.
2025-2026
Associate Director, Product Design · Method / GlobalLogic
Lead hands-on product design across healthcare and government programs: frame complex workflows, prototype AI-assisted interactions, and align distributed product, engineering, and domain teams through delivery.
2021-2025
Design Lead · Boomerang / BuyerAssist
Owned 0→1 product strategy and interaction design for relationship intelligence, led three designers, and built the foundational design system with the founder, CTO, and CRO.
2025
Founder / Product Design Lead · Scool Panda
Led discovery, market validation, product strategy, and end-to-end design while coordinating distributed development and go-to-market decisions from first concept through wind-down.
2018-2021
Senior Product Designer · Zoho Corporation
Designed enterprise configuration workflows for CRM rule engines, Sales Motivator, and CPQ; established reusable interaction patterns and mentored designers while remaining hands-on.
2016-2018
UI/UX Designer, Senior UX Designer · Pearson
Designed mobile and web learning experiences from user flows and prototypes through production UI, partnering with product and engineering while mentoring junior designers.
What the Outcomes Say
No anonymous praise or invented testimonials-just evidence connected to the work.
60% less manual account research, 35% higher warm-path outreach success, and 2.5 weeks shorter average account penetration.
One configurable rules system reached 80+ existing and 50+ new customers inside a platform used by 250,000+ businesses.
A functional AI review tool moved from personal experiment to regular use by more than 20 designers across three time zones.
Problem validation with 50+ schools-and the discipline to stop when expressed interest did not become sufficient adoption.
What People I Worked With Say
Feedback from leaders and collaborators who experienced the work firsthand.
FOUNDER PERSPECTIVE
I'm a big fan of the passion and user-first perspective Vignesh brings to the whole decision-making process.
MARKETING LEADERSHIP
We could meet a lot of tight timelines without compromising on quality, because of Vignesh.
DESIGN LEADERSHIP
He is very thorough in everything he does and can be depended upon to get the job done.
Writing
The Agent Illusion
5 minAI may genuinely make us faster. But feeling fast is not the same as measured progress.
5 minTwo Ways I Add Value
Different organizations need different forms of senior IC leverage. My work tends to enter through one of these two doors.
Find the product direction
0→1
WHEN THE PROBLEM IS STILL AMBIGUOUS
- Frame the real problem and business risk
- Map workflows, actors, and dependencies
- Prototype the uncertain interaction
- Align product, engineering, and domain experts
- Define a testable first product loop
Make the system scale
1→N
WHEN COMPLEXITY IS SLOWING THE TEAM
- Simplify enterprise interaction models
- Create reusable systems and standards
- Connect fragmented product workflows
- Use AI to increase team leverage
- Improve product quality without adding process
Frequently Asked Questions
The short version of how I think, work, and where I’m most useful.
My current title is Associate Director, but the work itself has stayed hands-on. I’m intentionally moving back to a pure IC track because that’s where I create the most leverage - not because I’m stepping down from anything.
Complex enterprise SaaS, AI-native products, healthcare workflows, configuration-heavy systems, and products where multiple actors or data sources must work as one understandable experience.
As a product capability and a way to extend investigation, prototyping, evaluation, and building-not as a tool list. Human control, explainability, and product context remain part of the design.
Yes. I work from discovery and systems models into interaction flows, prototypes, UI details, design-system patterns, and functional AI experiments.
A GOOD PLACE TO START
Tell me what feels harder than it should.
A workflow people avoid. A product direction that will not settle. A system that has outgrown its interface. Those are usually the conversations where I can be most useful.
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