Senior product designer with 8+ years shipping high-craft UI across complex, data-dense B2B SaaS. Four years as sole design authority at Pronto, an enterprise project management platform serving 60,000+ users across 30+ countries: owned product design end to end, from a 213-point visual inconsistency audit through a component and token system built in daily lockstep with engineering, to two production AI features designed around real model limitations and shipped under a trust-and-control framework. Use Claude Code and Figma Make daily to move from tokens and anchor screens to build-ready, on-system UI engineers implement directly. Results: 40% reduction in design-to-handoff time, 60% fewer visual inconsistencies within six months, 25% increase in AI feature adoption, and a 60% reduction in time to create a project timeline.

Varun Prasad

Senior product designer with 8+ years shipping high-craft UI across complex, data-dense B2B SaaS. Four years as sole design authority at Pronto, an enterprise project management platform serving 60,000+ users across 30+ countries: owned product design end to end, from a 213-point visual inconsistency audit through a component and token system built in daily lockstep with engineering, to two production AI features designed around real model limitations and shipped under a trust-and-control framework. Use Claude Code and Figma Make daily to move from tokens and anchor screens to build-ready, on-system UI engineers implement directly. Results: 40% reduction in design-to-handoff time, 60% fewer visual inconsistencies within six months, 25% increase in AI feature adoption, and a 60% reduction in time to create a project timeline.

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Senior product designer with 8+ years shipping high-craft UI across complex, data-dense B2B SaaS. Four years as sole design authority at Pronto, an enterprise project management platform serving 60,000+ users across 30+ countries: owned product design end to end, from a 213-point visual inconsistency audit through a component and token system built in daily lockstep with engineering, to two production AI features designed around real model limitations and shipped under a trust-and-control framework. Use Claude Code and Figma Make daily to move from tokens and anchor screens to build-ready, on-system UI engineers implement directly. Results: 40% reduction in design-to-handoff time, 60% fewer visual inconsistencies within six months, 25% increase in AI feature adoption, and a 60% reduction in time to create a project timeline.

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Work Experience

Independent Product Design Practice
July 1, 2024 - Present
Freelance practice applying AI-accelerated design and build workflows used at Pronto across small business and B2B client engagements.
Senior Product Designer at Havas (Pronto Project Management)
June 1, 2022 - April 1, 2026
Led end-to-end product design for an enterprise project management platform serving 60,000+ users across 30+ countries. Owned UI craft, design systems, and AI feature strategy in daily collaboration with engineering. Built a scalable token-based design system in Figma (component library, states, variables, typography scales, grid, spacing tokens, and WCAG-aligned contrast and keyboard focus) and used Figma Make to generate build-ready components, reducing gaps between design intent and implementation. Drove org-wide adoption as a single source of truth and mentored designers on system standards. Designed and shipped two production AI features using a trust-and-control framework with human-in-the-loop confirmation and full user opt-out, accounting for real model limitations. Also led workflow and dashboard redesign using progressive disclosure and role-based modular dashboards, validating via A/B testing before build.
UX/UI Designer at VentraIP Australia
July 1, 2019 - June 1, 2022
Designed across platforms serving 300,000+ customers, from research through to shipped, build-ready production UI. Owned UI design and product strategy for Mercury, a token-based multi-brand reseller console covering domain, hosting, billing, and service management, using Figma Variables/Modes to support multiple live reseller brands without duplicating builds. Led UI design and product strategy for VIPControl, VentraIP’s self-service client portal, including moderated usability testing and interviews (10–20 S/ME customers) to translate friction into interface and flow decisions. Led UI design for the VentraIP marketing website, using research to inform conversion-focused page structure and messaging hierarchy.
Design & Marketing Executive at PappaRich Australia
September 1, 2018 - June 1, 2019
Led design and marketing delivery across four food retail brands, grounded in live customer feedback. Supported campaign outcomes including increased promotional foot traffic within the first two campaign cycles.
UX/UI Designer at NAB
March 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Worked within a cross-functional Product, Engineering, and Design team on NAB One, an internal banking contact-centre platform. Led UI design, user testing, and stakeholder alignment across contact-centre workflows.
NAB – Merchant Support Specialist at NAB
December 1, 2016 - March 1, 2018
Provided frontline technical support across NAB’s Merchant Services contact centre, informing subsequent AI agent experience design for first-contact resolution.

Education

Bachelor of Communication Design at Monash University
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment