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Are you lost in the orbit of portfolios, searching for the correct designer? Let's hope that the search ends here. **
** This website is currently under revision, with an estimated completion date of November 10, 2025. Until then, not all content may be responsive across breakpoints otherwise it works..
Hi, I'm Mahesh! Welcome to my portfolio.
As a Designer, I create engaging digital experiences and products that enhance usability, work for your users, and bring in the dollars.
Introduction
What to expect
This website is a repository of my work spanning over a couple of years. I actively update it and add new work when it’s ready. All the pages are accessible, and there are NO PASSWORDS, so feel free to look around and read or skim.
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I place a lot of emphasis on narrative and storytelling, so I have built out my case studies to provide a good amount of context, details, and depth.
Target audience
The primary audience for this website is the design hiring managers.
Recruiters and others are welcome, and this website is indeed optimized for ‘skimming/scanning’. I would also encourage you to read the information section below.
Information
Assuming you are still here, I’m actively looking for roles in Product Design, Interaction Design, UX Design, Service Design, and Product Management. I have experience working as a designer, product manager, and advertising creative. My education encompasses business, graphic design, and human-computer interaction (HCI), also known as interaction design.
My most recent role was as a Senior Interaction Designer at HCLTech, a major consulting and digital transformation services company. Over there, I worked with several key clients and played an active role in shaping their new products and services. I have worked across various geographies, including India, the United States, and Canada. My preferred location is Toronto, Canada, where I am a permanent resident.
Disclaimer
Finally, portfolios are highly subjective, and it’s possible that this one won’t fulfill your arbitrary criteria. That said, if you prioritize hiring for experience, competence, and maturity over an exact utopian fit, I’m sure you will find something here that appeals to you enough to reach out.
I’ll leave you to judge :)
Design work
My website covers work spanning a decade. The first few case studies are real-world projects with a quantifiable business impact. The next few are conceptual case studies, which I completed during my master's degree. Feel free to navigate to the other pages that give an overview of Advertising and marketing work. If you want to know more about me, you can check the about me page, access my resume, or find me on LinkedIn. Happy browsing!
Railway apps: Discovery
I worked for a significant US-based freight and logistics company. We built applications for locomotive maintenance. As a designer, one of my key responsibilities was leading the research discovery process. Discovery involved conducting in-depth UX Research to understand users' and existing applications' pain points. As a result, I created assets such as Journey maps and personas, which provided valuable insights into the planning and product increment activities ahead.
#UXResearch #ServiceDesign #Figma #Mural #FigJam
Journey maps and Personas
Railway apps: Feature
As we progressed from the discovery to the delivery phase, we began conceptualizing and building out several key features and applications for locomotive maintenance. Here’s one of the features that I helped design and build that helps senior supervisors and shop planners do their jobs more efficiently. The feature is dedicated to towing a locomotive from one shop to another.
#ProductDesign #DesignSystems #SAPFiori #AdobeXD
#Logistics #Railways #Locomotives
Product design desktop feature
Banking Apps: AML/KYC
I created this interface as part of a Proof of Concept for a UK-based bank. The case study details the process of opening a business account, showcasing the perspectives of both the applicant and the bank employee. The system follows the steps to enable opening these accounts, following standard Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols. It also showcases AI-enabled functions, notably an AI-based chatbot that can be leveraged to enhance the process.
#ProductDesign #FinancialServices #Banking #Data #ArtificialIntelligence
#AgenticAI #FigJam #Collaboration
Agentic AI guidance
Healthcare Apps: Search
This case study details a search feature that I developed for a healthcare client, enabling healthcare providers (doctors, hospitals, and medical staff) to efficiently locate data related to an individual's benefits. The feature was part of a healthcare portal that I helped design and develop. The portal is a regional one for the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington), and the data presented is HIPAA-compliant. The search function was necessary as there are several categories, and specific data may reside in more than one category.
#ProductDesign #Healthcare #HIPAA #Data #SearchFeature
#Figma #Collaboration
Data search
Logistics: Ticket management
A healthcare and diagnostics company sought to develop an interface to manage orders of medical samples that required dispatch or pickup from various locations. We built one that served the purpose of handling the various order tickets. We showcased this interface from the POV of a customer service representative tasked with fulfilling these orders. Overall, our solution enabled the CSR with the timely handling of STAT orders by giving instructions for pickup. drop off, cancellations, and route updates/changes.
#ProductDesign #Healthcare #HIPAA #Data #SearchFeature
#Figma #Collaboration
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Conceptual Design work
Created and presented during my Masters at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2020
SOUP
I worked with a non-profit based in East Palo Alto, California which addressed the problems of housing in the Bay Area. However, they were lacking awareness and proper product market fit in the area which we adressed in this case study.
InnPlus
For my capstone project I created a hotel experience that gave a full overview of various touch-points and contactless experiences using a mobile app as a single source of information.
The crucible
The Crucible is an industrial arts school based in Oakland, California. As their neighbourhood was undergoing gentrification, they wanted a method to accurately understand the data and prepare for the future. We combined gamification and data visualization to create West-Oakland Monopoly, serving this purpose.