Karthik Rahul Namani
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Hyderabad, India
Toptal member since August 18, 2026
With 11 years of experience, Karthik has designed complex, high-stakes products across healthcare, aviation, telecom, fintech, and B2B commerce, serving 70M+ users and operating in 16 regulated markets. He works end-to-end, from discovery and service architecture to designing systems with 800+ components, and is as comfortable with production code as with Figma. He designs AI features that show their limits rather than guessing, and mentors designers in 20+ programs.
Experience
- Figma - 10 years
- Mobile App Design - 10 years
- Product Design - 10 years
- UX Research - 10 years
- Business to Business (B2B) - 10 years
- Enterprise UX - 7 years
- Figma AI - 3 years
- READDY.AI - 3 years
Portfolio
Enterprise Order Management System for Airline Retail (vOMS)
Global Patient Care Operations Platform
PGR Infra: Designed, Built, Deployed, and AI-visible
Blue Tree: Cancer Care & Support App
ATD: Product Enrichment Platform
Work Experience
Founding Product Designer
ForgeXP Design Studio
- Led end-to-end design strategy and execution across web and mobile, working directly with founders and senior stakeholders and adapting to each client’s existing product, engineering, and delivery setup.
- Owned a 3-month PGR Infra engagement end to end—design, build, and release—shipping a responsive property platform with discovery-first IA, a governed Sanity CMS across projects, blogs, and careers, and versioned Git delivery on Node.js.
- Rebuilt sridevelopers.com for a 597-home residential launch with dual-CTA architecture, channel-partner lead registration, and mobile-first SEO, producing 162 leads at Rs. 346 cost per lead and a 7.2% Google CTR over 3 months.
- Redesigned FingPay's website and information architecture around 4 buyer verticals with ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS trust signals and AI-search optimization, delivering +187% AI-referred visits, +240% referrals, and +52% conversion growth within 90 days.
- Delivered ResQ, an internal operations CRM for SRK Facility Management, with status-first views and a standardized staff ID system using QR verification, alongside a rebuilt brochure information architecture.
Associate Manager – UI/UX
MOURI Tech
- Led design on concurrent Fortune 500 engagements while mentoring a 5-person team within a 24-person practice, owning product design end to end from discovery through shipped delivery.
- Built and evolved shared Figma design systems and standards that scaled across products and teams, and set and carried WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility benchmarks.
- Designed AI-native and GenAI features, including predictions, recommendations, and assisted flows, with attention to transparency, control, and trust in partnership with product, engineering, and senior stakeholders.
- Redesigned self-service, recharge, and billing journeys for Grameenphone’s myGP app, serving 70+ million telecom subscribers. Achieved 35% faster recharge, 25% reduced friction, and 40% better information visibility.
- Led UX end to end for Roche Pharma’s Blue Tree Program mobile-first patient-support platform, handling sensitive health data for 40,000+ patients and 5,000+ doctors. Achieved WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across five Indian languages.
- Designed AI-assisted data-verification and enrichment workflows for American Tire Distributors’ B2B platform spanning 12,638 SKUs across ten vendors; surfaced 423 actionable suggestions improving vendor data quality to 80%.
- Directed design across five Vector modules for Lufthansa Group/Retail inMotion, embedding AI-native predictive stock forecasting. Led vOMS redesign across 600+ aircraft, cutting core flows from 8 or more steps to 3 or 4.
- Designed a daily wellness companion app for Evolut Fitness & Wellness supporting diabetes management. Achieved 20-35% better engagement and 25-40% clearer health-progress comprehension.
UX Designer
Incipio
- Designed consumer mobile, tablet, and web experiences across eCommerce, Bluetooth device support, and IoT for licensed brands including TUMI, Incase, Braven, Rebecca Minkoff, Tavik, and Griffin.
- Designed companion app experiences for Bluetooth audio and connected accessories, covering pairing, device status, and firmware update flows where hardware states drive the interface.
- Built and maintained shared UI patterns across multiple brand properties, keeping each licensed brand visually distinct while reusing the same interaction model and component set.
- Designed responsive eCommerce journeys spanning product discovery, configuration, and checkout, working with merchandising and engineering to ship across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
- Produced interaction specifications and design handoff for iOS and Android builds, partnering with engineering through implementation and release across a multi-brand product portfolio.
Usability Researcher Intern
Full Sail User Experience Lab
- Planned and facilitated usability and play-test studies for games, websites, and web applications, running sessions with up to 64 participants per study and owning test plans, scheduling, and participant recruitment end to end.
- Ran moderated sessions using Tobii 2 eye-tracking glasses with GSR and BVP sensors, producing a heat-map analysis of participant gaze to locate where attention broke down rather than relying on self-reported feedback.
- Applied PES and NASA-TLX scales alongside heuristic evaluation to quantify perceived workload and usability, converting findings into prioritized interface recommendations for design teams.
- Analyzed and presented both quantitative and qualitative results, using comparative analysis across instrumentation to separate measured behavior from stated preference in study readouts.
- Managed QA defect tracking and reporting from research findings, routing issues to the responsible teams so usability problems entered the same backlog as functional bugs.
- Delivered study readouts to stakeholders with clear recommendations, translating sensor and behavioral data into decisions that non-researchers could act on.
Education
Master's Degree in Game Design
Full Sail University - Florida, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Vardhaman College of Engineering - Hyderabad, India
Certifications
How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality
Interaction Design Foundation
Scrum Master Accredited Certification
International Scrum Institute
Social/Behavioral Research with Human Subjects
CITI Program
Skills
Tools
Miro, Claude, Canva, Sketch, AI Tools, Sketch 4, Adobe Experience Design (XD), InVision, Zeplin, FigJam, Adobe Creative Suite, Maze, Hotjar, Usertesting.com, Jira, Confluence, Figma Make
Platforms
Figma, Android, iOS, Vercel, Web, Sanity Studio, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Professional Services, Health & Wellness, Telecommunications, Marketing, Education Technology (Edtech)
Languages
HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Other
Claude Design, READDY.AI, Figma AI, Website Design, UX Research, Systems Thinking, Interaction Design (IxD), Information Architecture (IA), SaaS, Dashboard Design, Service Design, Enterprise UX, User Experience (UX), Mobile Apps, Mobile App Design, B2B, Conversational UI, Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Prototyping, UX Wireframes, Accessibility, Design Systems, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Communication, User Interface (UI), Web App Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Websites, Replit, Research, Data Reporting, Dashboards, Data Visualization, Agentic AI, Rapid Prototyping, Sprint Planning, User Research, User Interviews, Web App UX, Workflow Analysis, Android UI Design, iOS UI Design, Branding, Consumer Applications, Microinteractions, Microinteraction Design, Web Design, Web Applications, Insight Reporting, Reports, User Testing, User Flows, Consulting, Cross-functional Collaboration, Product Discovery, Product Management, Design Leadership, Mobile Design, Interactive Prototypes, Responsive Web Design (RWD), App UX, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, Design Thinking, Data-driven Design, Agile, AI-powered Product Design, Wireframing, AI Design, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Collaborative Design, Claude Code, User-centered Design (UCD), Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Streaming, Enterprise Software, Presentation Design, Prompt Engineering, Lovable, Documentation, UX Audits, Web Content, CRM, User Journey Maps, Audits, User Journeys, SaaS Design, AI-assisted UX, Modular Design, User Experience Design, Appointment Booking, API Integration, Digital Design, Graphic Design, Conversational UX, High-fidelity Prototypes, UX Architecture, Brand Identity, Landing Page Design, Typography, Web UI, Web UX, Desktop App Design, Data-heavy Design, Visual Design, Web UI Design, Component Libraries, Design Documentation, UI Style Guides, UI Components, Native Mobile Apps, Algorithms.Computer Science, AI Workflow, AI-assisted Development, AI-assisted Prototyping, AI-driven Insights, AI-enabled Applications, AI-generated Assets, AI-generated Code, Accessible Design, Agentic Frameworks, Component Design, Component-based Design, Conversational AI, Conversational Design, Conversational Interfaces, Conversational UI Design, Customer Experience, Customer Experience (CX) Design, Inclusive Design, Journey Mapping, Reusable Components, WCAG 2, WCAG 3, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Team Building, Research Synthesis, Executive Communication, AI Prompts, Accessibility-first Design, Best Practices in Design, Experience Design, Hiring, Lean Product Development, People Management, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Storytelling, Structured Problem-solving, Technical Hiring, Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Illustration, Front-end Design, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Affiliate Marketing, Brand Guidelines, Tailwind CSS, MVP Design, Market Research, Front-end, Human Factors, Human-centred Design, Game UI Design, game testing, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Problem Solving, Tobii Eye Tracker, AFFECTIVA, Statistical Data Analysis, THINK ALOUD USABILITY STUDIES, Moderated Usability Testing, Qualitative User Research, Quantitative Research, Enterprise UX · Order Management System, Legacy Modernization, Data-Dense Interfaces, Workflow Design, Supply Chain · WMS, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Scrum Master, Scrum, Behavior Analysis, Behavioral Testing, Consumer Research, Patient Services, Low Digital Literacy, Multilingual UX, Behavioral Design, Notion, WatchOS UI, Fitness Trackers, Wellness, diabetic management, Wearables, Apple Watch Design, engagement systems, Business to Business (B2B), DATA OPERATIONS, AI Assisted UX, Data Provenance, Admin Panels, telecom UX, Localization, Multilingual Design, B2B2C, figma tokens & variables, Responsive Web Apps, Real Estate Web Design, Headless CMS, content modeling, AI Assistants, SEO Tools, Node.js, Web Development, End-to-end Implementation (E2E), readdy.ai, Figma Dev Mode, Storybook, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor AI, Codex, Readdy.Ai, Usability, UX Thinking, Strategic Design Thinking, playtest, Embedded Systems, IOT Fundamentals, figjam, figma ai, Human Resources Management, Playtest studies, Web Usability, Mobile Usability, User Behavioral Analytics (UBA), Fintech, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Stakeholder Engagement, Ethnographic Research, Global Business, Global Distribution Systems (GDS), Global Strategy, Complex Web Systems, Data-informed Visual Design, Oncology & Cancer Treatment, patient support services, Agentic Design system, Full-stack, React, Video Integration, GPS, Large Language Models (LLMs)
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