I shape design direction before the pixels exist.
Strategy, systems and people — untangled on a whiteboard, long before anything reaches a screen.
Senior Lead · Wongdoody · Bangalore
Good design isn't about the pixels. It's about the decisions that come before them.
I'm Kavya — a UX Strategist who thinks the most important design work happens before anyone opens Figma.
Based in Chennai, rooted in Bangalore. I'm a Senior Lead at Wongdoody, an Infosys company. I work with organisations to untangle complex experiences and rebuild them around what people actually need from discovery to delivery.
I've published research at IIT Hyderabad, won a UXathon at IIT Delhi, and been invited back to my design school as a jury member — all before turning 25. Currently adding AI to the toolkit, formally, at IIT Delhi.
I don't use AI to skip the thinking. I use it to protect time for the thinking that matters. My process is tool-agnostic I work across Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT depending on context, client, and what the work actually needs.
Rapid Prototyping for RFPs and PoCs
Every RFP starts the same way: I read it manually, word by word. The real ask only reveals itself when you slow down. Once I've built my own understanding, AI enters to pressure-test my interpretation and scope what I might have missed. From there, prompting begins. The first draft is always rudimentary — what follows is a collaborative loop until we have an MVP ready to anchor a proposal.
Articulating Design Rationale
Strategic decisions are only as strong as the case you can make for them. Once I have the core of a rationale forming — even half-baked — I use AI to sharpen it into something I can pitch and sell. Not to generate the thinking. To make it land.
Generating Design Artefacts to React To
I use AI to generate first-draft artefacts — affinity maps, journey maps, task flows, synthesised session notes. The output is never final. It is a starting point to interrogate and push back on. Starting from a generated draft rather than a blank canvas surfaces better thinking faster.
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AI as an experience, not a feature.
A buildtech platform that needed its AI to stop feeling like a feature and start feeling like a relationship. I led experience strategy, conversational design, and the business case for extending AI past the transaction.
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Making your bank account speak your language.
A conversational layer for banking that turns data your bank already has into something worth reading. Designed end-to-end through natural language prompting in Claude Design — from permission model to tone of voice.
View case study →Most of the good stuff starts with a conversation.