Available for Work

Hello! I'm

Designing for humans,
not just screens.

UX Designer with 5+ years in user experience and 11+ years in visual storytelling. Currently at IDrive India. I turn friction into flow — then ship the work to the Play Store.

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Years Visual Design

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Years in UX

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Case Studies

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Apps on Play Store

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Book Published

Experience

Career & Background

2019 — Now

UX Designer & Senior Video Specialist

IDrive India · Bangalore

UX design for cloud backup products, visual designs, motion design. Conducted usability reviews and built interactive prototypes across the IDrive product suite.

2026

Published Author

Google Play Books · Amazon Kindle

"The Psychology of Product Moments" — 10 UX case studies on micro-interactions across Chrome, WhatsApp, Rapido, LinkedIn, and more.

2025 — 2026

Independent Android App Developer

Google Play Store

Shipped FamilyDose (v7.1) to the Play Store; linked (visual bookmark manager) in 12-day Play Store testing — final stage before production. SpendCast (budget tracker) in development.

2014 — 2019

Motion Design Specialist

Bangalore

11+ years of motion design — brand animations, explainer videos, UI transitions, and interactive motion concepts across multiple industries.

Selected Work

UX Case Studies

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NavigationFeature Design

Google Maps × Android Auto

How vehicle profiles could eliminate navigation friction for millions of drivers.

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Product DesignAndroid App

FamilyDose — Designers Can Ship. I Did.

Designed and shipped an Android app solo — built because of a sleepless night with a sick child.

03

Error StatesFriction Audit

Rapido — Tapping for Nothing

Dead-end screens that strand users with no way forward.

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Feedback Design

LinkedIn — The Post That Never Appeared

When silence is the only feedback a user gets.

05

Trust Design

Swiggy Instamart — Designing for Trust

How last-mile UX failures quietly erode hard-won trust.

06

Behavioural UX

Designing for "I Don't Care" Users

How to nudge disengaged users without manipulation.

07

Friction Audit

Google Stitch — A Small Menu, A Big Difference

How one overlooked menu creates cascading friction.

08

AI Design

When AI Knows Me Too Well

The fine line between helpful and creepy personalisation.

09

Onboarding

Wanderlog — Onboarding Friction

Where new users drop off before they find value.

10

Feature Launch

WhatsApp — Channels I Didn't Ask For

Forced discovery inside a personal communication app.

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Email Design

Lost in the Inbox — Why Emails Fail

Intentional hierarchy turns ignored touchpoints into trusted ones.

12

Task Flow

LinkedIn — Reducing Friction in Scheduled Posts

Cutting 6 steps to 3 and making a power feature feel powerful.

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Micro-interactions

What a Download Taught Me About Micro-Friction

How the smallest interaction breaks trust built over months.

UI Explorations

Design Work & Explorations

Behance

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Figma Community

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Figma Community

UI Component Sets

Buttons, Cards, Forms

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Figma Community

Mobile App Wireframe Kit

Wireframe Components

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Figma Community

Design System Templates

Color, Type, Spacing

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Medium · Design Bootcamp

Writings & Articles

★ Pinned · Mar 2026

Designers Can Ship Now. I Did.

It started with a fever. A sick child, exhausted parents, second-guessing medicine doses. That night I thought — this is a UX problem. So I built the solution. The story of FamilyDose — built by a designer, powered by stubbornness.

Read on Medium

Behavioural UX

Designing for "I Don't Care" Users

What happens when users simply don't want to engage — and how design creates just enough pull.

AI Design · UX Essay

Designing Temporal Awareness in AI Conversations

AI products remember everything — but give almost no sense of when things happened.

Email Design · Pricing UX

The Cost of Ambiguity — Norton's Renewal Email

When the same price appears twice — once crossed out — and what that does to user trust.

View All Writings → Read on Medium ↗

Shipped Products

Android Apps — Built & Shipping

Live · v7.1

com.familydose.app

FamilyDose

Started with a fever. A sick child, exhausted parents, second-guessing medicine doses. Designed in Figma, built with Claude AI, shipped to the Play Store — solo, as a non-coder.

100% offline — no cloud, no account required Trilingual — English, Malayalam & Hindi Family tracking for multiple members PIN lock, JSON export, image lightbox

🎨 Figma🤖 Claude AI⚛️ React + Capacitor📱 Android Studio

↗ Google Play Read Story →

🧪 Under Testing

com.satheesh.linked

linked

Built because of a personal tab-hoarding problem. Linked is a visual bookmark manager — it fetches OG metadata so your saved links look like what they actually are, not just raw URLs. Organised into Vaults: Typography, Motion, Case Studies, Inspiration, and more.

Visual bookmarks — OG image, title & domain (Microlink API) Vaults for organised collections with colours & icons Tags, search history, dark & light theme PIN lock, trash, haptic feedback

🎨 Figma🤖 Claude AI🔗 Microlink API⚛️ React + Capacitor📱 Android Studio

🧪 14-Day Play Store Testing Visual Bookmark Manager

🧪 Under Testing

com.satheesh.spendcast

SpendCast

An offline-first personal budget tracker. Built to understand where money actually goes — with income tracking, smart filters, and no cloud required.

Income & expense tracking with category filters PIN lock, haptic feedback & tutorial overlay 100% offline — no account, no sync

🎨 Figma🤖 Claude AI⚛️ React + Capacitor

🧪 14-Day Play Store Testing

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Budget
Tracker App

Published Work

The Psychology of Product Moments

📚 Published · 2026

The Psychology of Product Moments

A deep dive into single features of mature products — the one tap, one signal, one friction point that decides everything. Not a textbook. A case-by-case examination of how small design decisions shape user trust.

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Case Studies

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Products

1st

Book

📱 Google Play Books 📦 Amazon Kindle

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Chrome's Tab Overload — Cognitive load & decision fatigue

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