Kratin Bhardwaj
I am a product designer who thrives on all things ambiguous and gnarly. With a strong focus on craft, storytelling, and high exploration output, I enjoy diving into the details, solving problems thoughtfully, and bringing order to chaos.
AI-native product design is my current center of gravity: confidence-gated routing, human review loops, and interfaces that earn trust. Around it sit the fundamentals I never skip, research operations, design systems, and accessibility.
I am a trained architect who never stopped making things: I paint, sculpt in clay, and keep a figure drawing practice. Outside the studio I hike, camp, and photograph the night sky whenever I can find one dark enough. I once spent 45 days backpacking in the Himalayas, and every birthday I take a solo trip somewhere new.
Meet Kiku
& Mofu
Meet my two pets, two tiny sitters who interviewed for the role of ‘household chaos coordinators’ and got hired on the spot. They sit on my laptop when I’m working, on my laundry the second it’s folded, and on my chest at 6am when they decide it’s breakfast o’clock.
I thought I was adopting them, but let’s be real: they adopted me.
What I am
good at
I design AI products where trust is a feature: confidence signals, human review loops, and interfaces that say when the machine is unsure. The routing platform I designed reached 91% accuracy in testing and secured $300K to go to production.
I think in structures before screens, a habit my architecture degree never let go of. Design tokens, component libraries, and information architecture are how I keep 2,000+ articles, 8 departments, and 1 designer coherent.
I validate ideas in AI-native build tools before engineering spends a sprint on them: Figma Make and Lovable for functional prototypes on real data, Cursor and Claude Code for production-grade iteration, Claude connected to Figma over MCP for design automation, and NotebookLM for research synthesis. The E-Wolf routing model was validated in Lovable on real request data before a single production ticket existed.
I turn raw usage data into product calls. I mined 1,242 conversation transcripts to find the friction that justified an entire platform, and I validate before build: task success moved from 54% to 91% in usability testing.
I build identities as systems: a mark, a palette, a type voice, and the rules that keep them the same on a building, on paper, and on a screen. The Next Wave identity for ANJ Group and the Medallion Award winning Ready, Set, Register campaign both started from 1 idea carried across every surface.
Craft is the part I refuse to outsource: typography, iconography, illustration, layout, and motion, drawn by hand before they are drawn in code. I drew the FRCC News logo, and years of painting, clay, and figure drawing keep my eye for form and rhythm honest.
I prototype in code. React, TypeScript, and Storybook let me hand engineering something that runs instead of a deck of intentions, which helped cut design-to-production from 8 weeks to 3.
