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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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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 four Android apps to the Play Store — FamilyDose (medication tracker), linked (visual bookmark manager), SpendCast (budget tracker), and Noctuna (kids’ bedtime stories).
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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Google Maps × Android Auto
How vehicle profiles could eliminate navigation friction for millions of drivers.
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FamilyDose — Designers Can Ship. I Did.
Designed and shipped an Android app solo — built because of a sleepless night with a sick child.
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Rapido — Tapping for Nothing
Dead-end screens that strand users with no way forward.
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LinkedIn — The Post That Never Appeared
When silence is the only feedback a user gets.
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Swiggy Instamart — Designing for Trust
How last-mile UX failures quietly erode hard-won trust.
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Designing for "I Don't Care" Users
How to nudge disengaged users without manipulation.
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Google Stitch — A Small Menu, A Big Difference
How one overlooked menu creates cascading friction.
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When AI Knows Me Too Well
The fine line between helpful and creepy personalisation.
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Wanderlog — Onboarding Friction
Where new users drop off before they find value.
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WhatsApp — Channels I Didn't Ask For
Forced discovery inside a personal communication app.
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Lost in the Inbox — Why Emails Fail
Intentional hierarchy turns ignored touchpoints into trusted ones.
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LinkedIn — Reducing Friction in Scheduled Posts
Cutting 6 steps to 3 and making a power feature feel powerful.
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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
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Figma Community
Mobile App Wireframe Kit
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Design System · Prototype
NEXA AI Website
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.
Shipped Products
Android Apps — Built & Shipping
Live · v7.8
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
Live · v5.6
com.satheesh.linkvault
linked
Built because of a personal tab-hoarding problem. linked is a visual bookmark manager — it fetches link previews using Vercel so your saved links look like what they actually are, not just raw URLs. Free to use. Bookmarks stay on your device.
Visual bookmarks — link previews fetched via Vercel
Vaults for organised collections with colours & icons
Tags, search, dark & light theme — free to use
Bookmarks stay on your device · PIN lock · haptic feedback
🎨 Figma🤖 Claude AI🔗 Vercel⚛️ React + Capacitor📱 Android Studio
Live · v5.7
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
Live · v1.0
com.satheesh.noctuna
Noctuna
A cosy collection of bedtime stories designed to help little ones gently drift off to sleep. Soft narration, calming artwork, and a peaceful night-sky theme — turning bedtime into a warm, quiet moment to share.
21 original bedtime stories — Listen or Read-along mode
Sleep timer, narration voices & create-your-own stories
No ads, no tracking, no accounts — fully offline
Parental gate & Google Play Families compliant
🎨 Figma🤖 Claude AI⚛️ React + Capacitor📱 Android Studio
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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Chrome's Tab Overload — Cognitive load & decision fatigue
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WhatsApp's Blue Tick Anxiety — Read receipts & social pressure
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Rapido's Dead-End Screens — High-stakes friction
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LinkedIn's Notification Trap — Dark patterns & engagement
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10 case studies · 6 real products
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Let's build something worth experiencing.
Open to freelance projects, full-time roles, and UX collaborations. Based in Bangalore — available for remote and hybrid work.
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Available now · Bangalore, India · Open to remote & hybrid roles