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Rohan Kartik, Principal Product Designer

12 years · Open to work · Bengaluru

Product design leader.

Hands-on whether I'm leading or shipping.

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Selected work, picked for what it taught me.

FOLO net worth screen with paired blue and yellow fields
FintechFounding Designer
2023 → 2026 · Founding Product Designer
FOLO
A NetWorth app helping Indian families see their whole financial life in one place.
Locus, the last-mile logistics platform I designed for
Logistics SaaSProduct Design
2019 → 2022 · Principal Product Designer
Locus.sh
The design system and eight-person team behind a logistics platform IKEA acquired in 2025.
ShipFlex multi-carrier orchestration with carrier quotes and assignment rules
LogisticsEnterprise SaaS
2022 → 2023 · Design Lead & Mentor
ShipFlex
Twelve carrier portals behind one dashboard, designed in three months through a team of five.
Apna Cricket Team, Moneyball for fantasy managers, the branded title card
AIConsumer
2024 · Design Lead
Apna Cricket Team
Fantasy cricket team creation, reframed as a data problem and answered in fifteen minutes.
The Ryobi Phone Works app driving a connected measuring tool
Connected HardwareInteraction Design
2013 → 2015 · Interaction Designer
Ryobi Phone Works
Eight analog home-improvement tools, reimagined as one connected app. A Core77 honoree.

Experiments, kept for the questions they opened.

The SpaceMass museum home, reading Hokusai's Great Wave with live annotation markers
Computational ArtDesign Systems
2026 · Solo build
SpaceMass
A museum surface that teaches you to see a painting through honest computational lenses.
An owner's daily operations dashboard, jobs by status and priority in one view
Product DesignDesign Systems
2026 · Solo, in production
Operations OS
An operations platform that replaces the spreadsheet a small service business runs on.
A year of listening rendered as a play heatmap, the loudest year lit up in green
Data VisualisationProduct Design
2026 · Solo build
SoundPrint
My listening history, turned into a data story of heatmaps, clocks, and streaks.
The Goatonomics storefront, bring the greats home, fan-made portraits of sporting greats
BrandExperiment
2026 · With Shreyash Sharma
Goatonomics
A ten-day experiment with Shreyash, rating sporting greats like assets, just for fun.
The Lead breadboard prototype, an ultrasonic sensor on a tilt mount wired to an Arduino
Interaction DesignHardware
2016 · NID Bangalore
Lead
A foldable smart cane and a volunteer network for blind and low-vision teenagers.
The redeemable BMTC change token on screen, scanned into a rider's wallet so no change is lost
Interaction DesignService Design
2017 · NID
BMTC v2.0
A redesign of Bangalore's city bus experience, so no rider is ever short-changed.
The Instrument, an ultrasonic sound experiment played with the hands
Physical ComputingCreative Code
2017 · NID
Physical Computing
Small experiments in making things react. Where I learned to think by building.

What it's like working with me.

Rohan contributed solid ideas and valuable tech insights through the process. He turned these ideas into sleek, modern experiences that our users love interacting with.

Harsha Vardhan
Founder & CEO, Matchday.ai (acquired by Game Theory)

Rohan understood our vision, enhancing our brand and product significantly. His process and input exceeded expectations, boosting our market presence and sales.

Manu Mohan
Founder & CEO, Apna Cricket Team

At Locus, Rohan led design for complex systems and built a Figma library that transformed workflows, making design faster, clearer, and more collaborative.

Shamesh Krishna
Director of Product, Locus.sh

Rohan stands out for his creative excellence and client-first approach. From websites to brand strategies, he's the partner we rely on and highly recommend.

Rupal Jadeja
Program Manager, Velankani Group

Having built user-centric products across PurpleTalk, Dream11, Antariksh, and AirBin, Rohan has brought that same brilliance to Sharpener.design.

Mahek Shah
Founder & CEO, Antariksh Ventures