Vandana Rajesh

Product designer, New York City
Open to full-time roles
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Most designers hand this off to engineering. I design it, build it in code, and use AI to move from research to a shipped interface faster.

I've cut ship cycles by 40% and task completion time by 60% with research-led redesigns. My last brand relaunch grew a following from zero to 350+.

Selected work

Four projects, shipped end to end.

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POMU product screens
01 / 04
AIProduct design0 to 1

As a founding designer at POMU, an AI marketplace matching fashion brands with manufacturers, replaced keyword-only search with an image-and-text model that helped the team ship 40% faster.

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F.O.U.N.D. brand system
02 / 04
BrandWebLeadership

Rebuilt the brand and hand-coded a new site for F.O.U.N.D., a nonprofit, growing its following 50% and lifting engagement 20% in two months.

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Known Source mobile redesign
03 / 04
UX researchMobileAccessibility

Redesigned search and filters for Known Source, a luxury resale app, after usability testing, cutting task completion time 60%.

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HackNYU brand identity
04 / 04
Brand identityPrint + digital

Designed the full visual identity, apparel to digital, for HackNYU, NYU's flagship hackathon, serving six hundred participants.

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Playground games, 3D, and illustration, made for practice, not for clients
About

I like building things with a little grain to them.

I have a computer science degree, which means I don't just design the interface, I understand what happens after I hand it off. I've been the founding designer on an AI startup, rebuilt a nonprofit's brand and site by hand, and I'm currently shipping product at a healthcare AI company, sometimes all in the same week. Outside of work I shoot film, sketch at 1 a.m., and treat "finished" as a personality trait.

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Film photography
Film photograph, cupcakes on a picnic blanket
Film photograph, portrait by the water
Film photograph, lighthouse on the Hudson
Film photograph, Manhattan skyline
Film photograph, Citi Bike on a park path
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What I bring

Four reasons to keep reading past this page.

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Research-backed design

I ground decisions in real interviews and usability testing instead of guesses. A research-led redesign cut task completion time by 60%.

02

Systems thinking

I build systems that outlast one designer. A design system at Pomu let three engineers ship new surfaces 40% faster.

03

Code fluency

I prototype in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, not only Figma, and use AI tools to work faster, from scaffolding components to debugging. I've hand-coded and deployed full sites end to end, this one included.

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Ownership

I've been the founding or lead designer on every team I've joined, comfortable owning a problem from research through ship.

Get in touch

Let's ship
something.

vandana.raj1113@gmail.com
Location
New York City
Currently
Product Designer · Vintage Labs AI, Inc.
Open to
Full-time product design roles
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