Rudhra Rekapally — Product Designer
Ask me anything. I'll answer in design.
Research-driven product designer crafting calm interfaces across healthtech, edtech, SaaS & AI — currently designing AI agents at SolvirIT.
Open to work — 2026
33.1507° N / 96.8236° W
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02 — About
A designer with a research habit.
I'm Rudhra — I blend psychology, research and visual craft to design products that feel obvious in hindsight. I've shipped across healthcare, education, SaaS and early-stage startups — raising usability, consistency and retention along the way.
My day moves between end-to-end UX research — interviews, heuristic evaluation, usability testing, journey mapping — and the fine craft of interaction design, prototyping and design systems. I care about decisions that are data-informed, not data-decorated.
M.S. Creative Tech & Design · CU Boulder · 3.9
B.Tech Computer Science · 3.83
Figma · Miro · Hotjar · Framer
HTML · CSS · JS — this site is hand-coded
4+years designing
4industries shipped in
90+screens, one prototype
40%user friction removed
03 — Selected work
Things I've shipped recently.
Hover a row to peek — click for the full case.
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SolvirIT
Product design for customizable AI agents — leading the marketing-site redesign in parallel.
2025 —
02
Comfort · Compass Health
End-to-end UX for a mental-health platform — 90+ screens, first design system, 30% funding lift.
2023
03
Nume
First brand guidelines, social toolkit, and a component library mapped to code — −30% marketing workload.
2024
04
Boulder Public Library
Ethnographic field study of how people actually use a public library.
2023
05
SimplUI
A tokenized, documented design system — my CU Boulder capstone.
2024
06
Clarity Schools
UX research on a family-facing financial-aid app — 10 issues, 10 insights, 5 recommendations.
2023
02
Comfort · Compass Health
End-to-end UX for a mental-health platform — 90+ screens, first design system, 30% funding lift.
2023
03
Nume
First brand guidelines, social toolkit, and a component library mapped to code — −30% marketing workload.
2024
04
Boulder Public Library
Ethnographic field study of how people actually use a public library.
2023
05
SimplUI
A tokenized, documented design system — my CU Boulder capstone.
2024
06
Clarity Schools
UX research on a family-facing financial-aid app — 10 issues, 10 insights, 5 recommendations.
2023
04 — Process
Five quiet movements, one loud outcome.
The rhythm holds; the shape bends per project. AI sharpens the middle three — the listening and the shipping stay human.
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i.
Listen
Stakeholder kick-offs, user interviews, field observation, support tickets. I hunt the gap between what people say they need and what their behavior is asking for. Nothing survives if I get this wrong.
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ii.
Frame
Synthesize patterns into a problem statement the team actually agrees on — JTBD, journey maps, an opinionated "we will / we won't" list.
+ AI · stress-tests the framing against opposing lenses before committing -
iii.
Draw
Quantity over quality first — sketches, lo-fi flows, divergent options. Rough things hit whiteboards on day three, not week three.
+ AI · three hand sketches become clickable in an afternoon -
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Validate
Hi-fi prototypes in front of real users within the week. Five sessions, three big findings, one insight that changes the brief.
+ AI · patches drafted between sessions, not after the round -
v.
Ship & revisit
Annotated specs, paired with engineers in stand-up, instrumented launches. Design isn't done at ship — it's just visible.
05 — Same words, different designer
The textbook gives you a sentence.
The textbook gives you a sentence.
Here's the version I've earned.
Seven words every job listing reuses — and what they mean after four years of shipping, breaking and rebuilding. Scroll the list or tap a word — ← → works too.
Where it started · 2017 I met user-centered design with a controller in hand — GTA V on an Xbox 360, a world so big that never once made me feel lost. The map, the menus, a city teaching you its rules without a single tutorial pop-up. I just didn't have the words for it yet.