About me
I'm a product designer working where the stakes are real — public safety, healthcare, connected devices. The kind of software where a confusing screen isn't an inconvenience, it's a consequence.
Based in Bangalore, four years into designing for the edges rather than the average: the officer working under duress, the elderly user meeting technology for the first time, the patient at their most vulnerable moment.
Exploring
AI-native design workflows and building my own tools.
After hours
Reading, illustration, and taking more photos than I post.
- Reading & illustration
- Vibe-coding side projects
- Photography
Reach out on LinkedIn or by email — I'd love to hear from you. mithracreates@gmail.com
Last 30 days
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The roles
Alchi Design Studio, Bangalore. Five patient-management tools for hospitals, nurses and psychologists — real clinical surface, not intern work. Aged-care apps built around low-vision and low-confidence users lifted adoption 35%.
- Jun 2022 — UX Design Intern. Alchi Design Studio, Bangalore. Five patient-management tools for hospitals, nurses and psychologists — real clinical surface, not intern work. Aged-care apps built around low-vision and low-confidence users lifted adoption 35%.
- Feb 2023 — UX Designer. Full-time in under six months. Owned the Sanro Health CTMS end to end: physician and coordinator interviews, an EMR-integrated dashboard scoring patients against inclusion criteria in real time. 40% faster trial matching, 30% higher referral efficiency.
- Mar 2024 — Senior UX Designer. Intern to Senior in roughly two years. The shift was from executing to deciding — owning design risk and UX controls against regulatory requirements, and mentoring the designers doing the work I used to do.
- Jun 2024 — MView DEMS. Two years leading UX on a digital evidence management system for law enforcement. One coherent experience across web, mobile and kiosk — then past the screen into packaging and evidence-handling workflows, because the chain of custody doesn't stop at the interface.
- 2026 — Dotlet. Designed and built a vector tool solo in ten days — specification first, then Figma Make. Shipped for Config Makeathon, then taught as the case study for a Friends of Figma workshop on AI-native workflows.
The upskilling
University of North Carolina
Barbara Fredrickson's course on how positive emotion widens what people notice. The earliest thing here, and the reason I design for states of mind rather than tasks alone.
- Jul 2020 — Positive Psychology. Barbara Fredrickson's course on how positive emotion widens what people notice. The earliest thing here, and the reason I design for states of mind rather than tasks alone.
- Sep 2021 — Web Development. HTML, CSS and JavaScript — taken before the first design job, so I'd stop handing engineers work I couldn't reason about.
- Feb 2022 — Digital Marketing. How a product gets found and framed. Useful later for arguing about positioning, not just pixels.
- Mar 2022 — Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner. IBM's framework for keeping a team pointed at the user — collaboration, research, synthesis, prototyping and storytelling as one loop.
- Nov 2022 — UI / UX. First structured UX training, taken five months into the internship to put names to what I was already doing.
- Jan 2023 — Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design. The first of the seven. Started it the month I moved into a full design seat — formalising what the internship had taught by doing.
- Apr 2023 — Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define & Ideate. Personas, journey maps and problem statements — the discipline of defining the problem before reaching for a solution.
- Jul 2024 — Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator. The step past Practitioner: contributing on live engagements and taking the lead, rather than applying the framework to your own work alone.
- Jul 2024 — Build Wireframes & Low-Fidelity Prototypes. Structure before surface — getting the flow and hierarchy right while it's still a box on a page.
- Oct 2024 — Work with Components in Figma. Components, variants and properties — the mechanics behind a design system that survives more than one designer.
- Nov 2024 — Build Dynamic User Interfaces for Websites. Responsive layout and interaction patterns for the web — how a design has to bend across breakpoints without losing its logic.
- Nov 2024 — Create High-Fidelity Designs & Prototypes in Figma. Taking a validated low-fidelity flow through to a prototype an engineer can build from, and a usability session can actually test.
- Nov 2024 — Conduct UX Research & Test Early Concepts. Study design, moderation, and synthesis — testing an idea while it's still cheap to be wrong about it.
- Jun 2025 — Google UX Design Professional. The full seven-course certificate, closed out. Research through high-fidelity delivery, with a portfolio project at every stage.
- Mar 2026 — AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations. Anthropic's 4D framework — Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. The vocabulary I'd been missing for why some AI-assisted work lands and some doesn't.
- Mar 2026 — Claude 101. Prompt construction, constraint-setting, and reading model output critically rather than accepting the first plausible answer.
- Apr 2026 — AI Fluency for Educators. The 4D framework turned outward — built with Prof. Joseph Feller (University College Cork) and Prof. Rick Dakan (Ringling College) for people who have to teach this, not just use it.
Designer
Builder
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Photographer
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A few questions that usually come up — answered before the email thread starts.