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01Portfolio - 2026

Designing clarityinto complex products.

Pavan PS

Lead Product Designer

I design complex digital products, enterprise interfaces and design systems that make difficult workflows feel simple.

02Experience

Professional experience

I've spent six years designing enterprise products and making complex workflows easier to use.

I work as a Lead Product Designer on enterprise and B2B products across finance, banking, insurance, logistics and internal business systems. My work covers product strategy, UX, UI, interaction design and design systems.

  • Product strategy
  • UX architecture
  • UI design
  • Interaction design
  • Design systems
  • UX research & usability testing
  • Design governance & mentoring
6
years designing enterprise products
20+
enterprise modules
3+
product teams supported
80+
user roles designed for
10+
transaction workflows
12+
design systems created & managed
Includes full systems and extensions built and maintained across product teams in finance, banking, insurance and logistics.

Domains I design for

  • Finance

    Reporting, approvals and controls for finance operations teams.

  • Banking

    Transaction monitoring, reconciliation and exception handling.

  • Insurance

    Claims and policy operations, approvals and exception paths.

  • Logistics

    Shipment tracking, live operations and exception control.

  • Internal systems

    Admin, role-based tooling and back-office workflows.

Career progression

03Case studies

Enterprise web & mobile products

Five operational products, one discipline.

Case studies built to show how I work with complex enterprise domains - claims and policy operations, transaction reconciliation, logistics control, field operations and AI-assisted decision support. Some product names and data have been anonymised or represented for confidentiality.

04How I work

Five things I won't compromise on.

Process is the easy part to copy. These are the judgements I apply on every product, and where you can see each one in my work.

  1. 01

    Design the hardest screen first.

    If the dense, exception-heavy screen works, the easy ones follow. I test every direction against the worst case, not the demo case.

    See it in: Transaction & Reconciliation Platform

  2. 02

    Separate the real problem from the requested feature.

    I agree what success looks like before anyone draws a screen, so we solve the problem and not the first solution someone suggested.

    See it in: Claims & Policy Operations

  3. 03

    Colour is reserved for risk.

    In an operational tool, restraint is what makes escalation visible. If everything is highlighted, nothing is.

    See it in: Claims & Policy Operations

  4. 04

    Systems over screens.

    A decision made twice belongs in a token, a component or a documented pattern, so teams can reuse it and quality holds without me in the room.

    See it in: Design Systems section

  5. 05

    Explain it before asking for trust.

    Any recommendation, status or automated action shows its reason, how sure it is, and what will change, and the operator can always disagree.

    See it in: AI-Assisted Workflows

My process, in orderDiscover → Define → Structure → Design → Systemise → Refine

05Design systems

Tokens · Components · Patterns

I don't just design screens. I build systems that scale.

A working extract of the foundations I maintain for enterprise products. Open any number of panels - they stay open independently.

system / foundations42 published

Colour tokens

signal.500 · Selected, focus

Type scale

Reconciliation

Role
Display
Family
Bricolage Grotesque
Weight
500
Size / LH
48–64 / 0.92

Exception queue

Role
Heading
Family
Bricolage Grotesque
Weight
500
Size / LH
32–40 / 1.05

Nostro breaks, today

Role
Subheading
Family
Bricolage Grotesque
Weight
500
Size / LH
24 / 1.2

Match the ledger entry against the custodian statement, then post.

Role
Body
Family
IBM Plex Sans
Weight
400
Size / LH
16 / 1.6

LAST UPDATED · 14:02 UTC

Role
Small / Label
Family
IBM Plex Mono
Weight
400
Size / LH
12–14 / 1.0 / 0.16em
Display
Bricolage Grotesque
UI
IBM Plex Sans
Data / meta
IBM Plex Mono
Min body size
15px

Token palette

Signal

Primary action, active state

--signal · #1B54E8

In use

Settlement batchSignal
Accent
Signal only
Text contrast
AA or better
Status colour
Never sole cue
Neutrals
5 steps

Scale · 4px base unit

Rhythm · text

Settlement summary

Spacing between a title and its supporting copy uses half the container step.

PostHold

Rhythm · container

Card padding at 16px

margin 8 · padding 16

Base unit
4px
Dense tables
8 / 12
Page gutters
32 / 64
Never
Arbitrary values
Card padding
16px

Buttons · variant × state

DefaultHoverFocusDisabledPrimarySecondaryGhost

Input

focus → 1px Signal border

Select

Native, themed

Checkbox

Toggle

Primary
One per view
Focus ring
2px Signal / 3px offset
Disabled
Visible, with reason
Hit area
≥ 36px

Programme register

5 of 128 · filtered: open work
Sample data table: open design work, sorted by last updated
RefProjectStatusOwnerLast updatedPriority
PAY-40921Cross-border payout railsActiveM. Iyer12 min agoP1
CLM-11784Motor claim FNOL intakeBlockedR. Fernandes1 hr agoP1
SHP-73310Customs clearance consoleIn reviewA. Kowalski3 hrs agoP2
REC-20558Nostro reconciliationActiveS. BhattacharyaYesterdayP2
TRE-90142Treasury limit monitoringCompletedL. Duarte2 days agoP3
Row height
40px dense
Selection
2px Signal edge
Numerics / IDs
Mono
Hover
Surface 6%

Navigation states

Status

CompletedSuccessBatch posted to ledger
In reviewWarningSLA breach in 2 hours
BlockedCriticalSanctions screening failed
ActiveNeutralAwaiting custodian feed

Status is carried by glyph, position and text - never colour alone.

Active nav
2px Signal edge
Hover
Surface 6%
Status pills
None - inline
Cues
Glyph + text
06Contact Me

Let's talk.

I'm Pavan, a Lead Product Designer with six years in enterprise and B2B product design across finance, banking, insurance, logistics and internal business systems. Most of my work sits where business rules, user needs and technical constraints meet. I turn complicated workflows into products that are clear to use and easy to learn.

What I specialise in

  • Enterprise & B2B product design
  • UX architecture & workflow design
  • Interaction & UI design
  • Design systems & governance
  • UX research & usability testing

Availability - open to Lead Product Design and UI/UX roles

Location
Mangalore, India