01 / Signal

Adyanth Natarajan

Experience Designer Systems Thinker AI-Native Builder Product Strategist Sub-par Athlete Experience Designer

I design products people don't have to think about. The rest is details, product design, systems thinking, AI, Figma, and a questionable football career.

Adyanth Natarajan, portrait

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04 / Process

How I work.

01

Understand the System

Before Figma opens, I ask who, what, when, where, how. User journey maps, sprint audits, design PRDs, sprint planning. The product has to make sense as a system before it makes sense as a screen.

02

Map Mental Models

I talk to stakeholders and internal users to understand how they think, not just what they need. The output lives in Figma, usually a board with a supporting document that captures the gaps between how people think and how the product currently works.

03

Make Decisions Explicit

Every design decision gets documented in the PRD with a reason. Not just what was decided, but why. Written for everyone, developers, stakeholders, and future me six months from now trying to remember why something was built a certain way.

04

Prove Before Presenting

Depending on the timeline I shuttle between Replit and Figma. If a stakeholder needs to feel something working, I build it. If screens are enough to make the argument, I use those. The goal is to reduce the gap between what I am proposing and what they can experience.

05

Think with AI

Claude is part of my process at every stage. Structuring problems, challenging assumptions, writing documentation, stress-testing decisions. Not a shortcut, a thinking partner. Claude Code handles the build when the work calls for it.

06

Ship and Watch

Once something is live, the team feedback loop starts. I watch what surfaces, prioritise what matters, and iterate. Design does not stop at handoff.

A designer who asks why before opening Figma.

I am Adyanth Natarajan. Experience Designer at XLEY.AI, based in Delhi NCR. 4 years shipping complex products across enterprise, government, mobile, and AI platforms.

I am the only designer at XLEY.AI, which means I own everything from the first question to the final handoff. Before that, XR Central, QGLUE, and Haqdarshak. Before all of that, a B.Des in Human Centred Design from Srishti.

Outside work I was a national level football player, now mostly a hobby, hold a black belt in karate, run half marathons, hit the gym regularly, and spend too much time thinking about how products could work better.

Let's shape something.

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adyanth.natarajan@gmail.com

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