Complex workflows
Audit, compliance, customer operations, and other products where users need to understand what happened and decide what to do next.
Personal operating system · v2026
Berlin ↔ India · 52° N / 20° N
Chandrika — officially Sanapati Chandrika
Curious by nature. Playful in process. Creative on purpose.
I came to product design through computer science, operations, and banking. Now I untangle complex systems and shape them into products people can understand, trust, and actually enjoy using.
Explore my storyMost recently: designed trustworthy AI workflows
BERLIN · NEW ROOTS
INDIA · FIRST HOME
ALWAYS CURIOUS
Product designer
Probably asking “why?”
✦ systems thinker
human first ↗
Field note #27
If it feels complicated, the design is not finished yet.
Systems thinkingHuman judgementTrustworthy AIResearchTiny detailsBig questions
Systems thinkingHuman judgementTrustworthy AIResearchTiny detailsBig questions
Trustworthy AI
Human review, clear system status, correction paths, and safeguards against treating machine confidence as a substitute for judgement.
Research to iteration
I turn interviews and usability observations into explicit product decisions, then show what changed and why.
Design systems
Reusable components and consistent interaction patterns that help teams move faster without losing clarity or craft.
Path to product design
A non-linear route.
A useful one.
Each step added a different lens: technical, operational, human, and craft.
- 01
Computer science
Technical foundation
- 02
Operations & marketing
Systems and execution
- 03
Banking & customers
Trust and service
- 04
Design studies
Research and craft
- 05
Cortea
Shipped B2B AI work
Working principles · 03
A few things I
come back to.
Quiet reminders for when the work gets complicated and the answer is not obvious.
01 · clarity over cleverness
Design that needs a user manual has already failed.
02 · listen harder
Good research asks uncomfortable questions — and sits with the silence.
03 · both, always
Systems thinking — and then humanity.
Design community · Vienna, Austria
UXCON Vienna2025.
Three days of fresh perspectives, generous conversations, and the kind of questions that follow you home.
What stayed with me
Different perspectives change the work.
"The room was full of people who see the world differently, and I left seeing it differently too."
3days inside·200+designers met·1talk I won't forget
Fei-Fei Li keynote
Behind the Booth
After the Talk
UX Designer (apparently)
Let's talk about UX, baby