Design manager · AI-first product practice
Rishikesh Kulkarni
Thirteen years in product design, currently leading a distributed team across India and Canada at Loopio.
A design leader first and a hands-on craft practitioner second: at Simplifai I led design for an AI-native claims automation platform, and drove the shift to AI-assisted workflows both in my own practice and across the team's process, from prototyping through to shipped product.
Selected work
Five case studies across AI automation, human-in-the-loop review, field hardware and design systems.
AI powered Automation for Insurance Claims
Self-serve AI agent platform taken from whiteboard to core product pillar, cutting deployment time 60%.
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Building Trust into AI
Verification workspace that let handlers check AI output against the source, cutting review time 94%.
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Scanning with Confidence
Hands-free redesign of a rolling ultrasonic scanner for field inspectors, cutting trial-and-error passes on site.
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Closing the Reporting Gap
Integrated report builder for asset inspection teams, cutting report turnaround from weeks to days.
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One Language, Many Surfaces
Design system and component library behind Flow Builder and the HITL workspace, built to hold up under real product complexity.
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Leading a global team of three on an AI-powered RFP automation platform.
Scaled design and research from 0 to 6 and took Flow Builder to a core product pillar.
Decision-support interfaces for EU government infrastructure.
Founding designer for a relocation intelligence platform.
Led 10+ SaaS and enterprise UX engagements.
Geospatial data workflows for global navigation products.
What I bring
Tools
Figma
Claude
Miro
Replit
Notion
OpenAI
Adobe
Atlassian
Mentoring
At DesignBoat UI UX Studio and School I taught and mentored over 150 designers and product managers in systems thinking, AI-aware design, usability and scalable visual systems.