Lavnik Poddar

Product & Experience Designer · Creative Strategist

Hyderabad / New Delhi · lavnikpoddar@gmail.com

Product and experience designer with a track record of zero-to-one work: transforming ambiguous briefs into shipped products, scalable systems, and coherent brand experiences. Background bridges enterprise software, healthcare innovation, mobility services, and early-stage ventures.

0 → 1 ProductsBrand & Experience StrategySystems ThinkingAI-Native BuildingService & Ecosystem Design

Experience & Business Impact

2022 — Present

Mondee

· Product Designer
Oct 2025 – Present

Enterprise Corporate Travel & AI Platform

  • Owned end-to-end product & experience design for Miraee across 6 core enterprise journeys for key clients including JP Morgan (TCW onboarding in progress).
  • Re-engineered the design-to-approval cycle with rapid prototyping and parallel reviews, slashing concept-to-tested delivery from 2 weeks to 3 days.
  • Designed intent-mapping and guided prompt workflows for corporate travelers, cutting AI task completion time by 30% and eliminating prompt ambiguity.

Nerd Circuit

· Founder & Design Lead
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

Independent Design & Strategy Studio

  • Delivered brand positioning, product strategy, and identity design for external clients and early-stage ventures.
  • Designed, coded, and launched two standalone products end-to-end: Gulper (macro & calorie tracking in Swift) and Atlas (AI habit-formation tool), shipping production iOS apps with modern AI capabilities.

Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT Delhi

· Product Designer
Dec 2023 – Sep 2024

BioDesign & Healthcare Innovation

  • Ran biodesign research with AIIMS clinicians and rural health officers across Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, reframing an open brief into 3 commercially viable telemedicine applications.
  • Formulated an evidence-based medical device evaluation framework for emerging markets; research published at HFES 2025 (Chicago).

Greenvolt Mobility (Odd/Even)

· Product Design Intern
Feb 2023 – Aug 2023

EV Mobility & Service Design

  • Led strategic pivot from a capital-heavy hardware roadmap to an asset-light battery swap service routed through EXIDE partner networks, creating the supporting MSME brand identity and go-to-market model.

Railway Design Centre, NID Ahmedabad

· Product Designer
2022

Public Infrastructure & Commerce

  • Designed a modular vendor kit for Indian Railways' 'One Station, One Product' initiative, engineered for commercial deployment across 1,083 railway stations.

Education

National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad

2019 – 2025

Bachelor of Design (B.Des), Product Design

Certifications

Behavioural Science (Fractal Analytics)Google UX DesignCS50 AI with Python (Harvard/edX)

Leadership & Outreach

NID Student Activity Council (Merchandise Lead) · NID Placement Cell Coordinator · Headstart Network Foundation (Design & Startup Ecosystem).

Beyond Design

Running 🏃Café hopping ☕Horror movies 🎬Baking & cooking 🥐Vibe coding ⚡