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 — PresentMondee
· Product DesignerEnterprise 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 LeadIndependent 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 DesignerBioDesign & 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 InternEV 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 DesignerPublic 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 – 2025Bachelor 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 ⚡
