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Hi, I’m Manish Kumar
a Product Design Leader. B2B SaaS Specialist. AI Experience Designer. 0→1 Product Partner.

Q: What kind of work do you take on?

Hard problems: AI experience design (LLM, conversational, human-in-the-loop), 0-to-1 product design, data-heavy B2B SaaS and enterprise UX, and design systems engineers actually ship.

Q: Do you have experience designing AI products?

Yes. My recent focus is AI-powered features such as generative tools, decision-support, and LLM interfaces. AI UX is its own discipline: designing around model uncertainty, building trust in imperfect answers, graceful fallbacks, and keeping a human in the loop.

Q: Do you work with startups or enterprises?

Both. I have done founding-designer, 0-to-1 work at RecoBee and large enterprise and compliance platforms at ControlCase and Harvesting Farmer Network. Startup speed with enterprise rigor.

Q: How can I work with you?

I am open to senior and lead product design roles, fractional product-design partnerships, and select consulting. The fastest way is WhatsApp at +91 7055526209 or email mymkrana@gmail.com with a short brief.

I'm the designer teams bring in when the product is powerful but nobody can figure out how to use it — especially AI and data-heavy B2B SaaS. 9+ years turning complex workflows and LLM tools into experiences people trust and actually adopt.

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What I Do

Where I make the difference

Four things I'm good at — the kind of work that moves a product, not just a mockup.

AI Experience Design

Conversational & LLM interfaces
Human-in-the-loop & feedback loops
Explainability & trust patterns
Graceful fallbacks for AI errors

0→1 Product Design

Discovery & user research
IA, flows & wireframes
Rapid, testable prototypes
Shipped MVP, not just specs

B2B SaaS & Data UX

Dashboards & data consoles
Dense, expert workflows
Admin & internal tools
Fewer errors, faster decisions

Design Systems

Component libraries
Tokens & guidelines
Figma → dev handoff
Built to scale with the team

Trusted By

Clients I've Worked With

Brands and startups I've partnered with across B2C apps and B2B SaaS.

9+

Years in Product Design

50+

Products & Features Shipped

30+

Teams & Founders Served

5+

Industries — SaaS to AI

About

I make complex products feel obvious.

Nine years, six companies, and a soft spot for the dense, messy corners most designers skip — compliance platforms, agritech, data-heavy B2B. Expert users, complex flows, and decisions that cost real money when they're wrong.

Where my time has gone

B2B SaaS & Enterprise7+ yrs

Design Systems & UI6+ yrs

Consumer / B2C Apps5 yrs

UX Research & Strategy5 yrs

Design Leadership3 yrs

Web & Brand Design3 yrs

I started out drawing logos and landing pages at Bummlers. Over the last decade I moved into product — and found my place in the system-heavy corners most designers avoid: compliance tooling at ControlCase, data products at Data Bridge, and B2B SaaS at Softles.

At Harvesting Farmer Network I led product design and a small team across an agritech platform. Today I'm Lead UI/UX Designer at RecoBee, where my focus has shifted toward AI — generative tools, decision-support, and LLM interfaces. That's a different kind of UX: you design around model uncertainty, earn trust in answers that aren't always right, and keep a human in the loop. See selected work →

Two beliefs I keep coming back to: a design system is only worth building if engineers actually use it — not just admire it in Figma — and the first hour of a kickoff usually decides the whole project. Most are won or lost before lunch.

Systems over screens

I design rules and components, not one-off pages — consistency that scales and survives the handoff to engineering.

Research before pixels

Talk to real users first. The clearest interface is the one that already matches how experts think about their work.

Shipped over perfect

A design that ships and gets used beats a flawless Figma file nobody builds. I optimise for what reaches real hands.

Currently Lead UI/UX Designer at RecoBee · open to select product design work

Design Systems● User Research● Product Design● Information Architecture● Usability Testing● Wireframing● Prototyping● B2B SaaS● 0→1● Enterprise● B2C Apps● Data-heavy● Design Thinking● Interaction Design● Dev Handoff● Stakeholder Workshops● Accessibility● User-Centered●

My Journey

Work Experience

9+ years across product design, UX, and design leadership roles.

Jun 2024 – Present

Lead UI/UX Designer Consultant · RecoBee

Remote — B2B SaaS & B2C apps · user research → prototype → ship

Now
Dec 2023 – Jun 2024

Product Design Manager · Harvesting Farmer Network

Mohali — Led end-to-end product design · mentored the design team

6 mo
Oct 2022 – Dec 2023

Lead UI/UX Designer · ControlCase

Remote — Compliance-heavy enterprise UX · personas, flows & UI systems

1 yr 2 mo
Mar 2022 – Oct 2022

Senior UI/UX Designer & Developer · Data Bridge

Remote — Designed & built MyBridge · wireframes to responsive UI

8 mo
Apr 2019 – Mar 2022

Senior UI/UX Designer · Softles

Noida — UX strategy in Agile · built & maintained design systems

2 yr 11 mo
Mar 2017 – Mar 2019

Web & Graphics Designer · Bummlers

Ghaziabad — Websites, landing pages, brand & graphic design

2 yrs

What I Know

Skills & Tools

Product strategy, AI experience, systems, and craft — the range I bring to a team.

Product & Strategy

Product Strategy UX Research Discovery User Interviews Jobs-to-be-Done Information Architecture Adoption Metrics

AI Experience

Model uncertainty & fallbacks Trust & explainability Human-in-the-loop Conversational / LLM UX Feedback & correction loops AI-assisted design

Craft & Systems

Interaction Design Prototyping Design Systems Usability Testing Accessibility Dev Handoff

Tools

Figma FigJam Miro Maze Notion HTML / CSS / React

Selected Work

A selection of product, app, and web design projects — research-led and system-driven.

600

Farmer Agriculture solution app design

App DesignUX ResearchMobile

750

Social platform for Professional users

App DesignSocialUX

630

Petfood Website UI Design

Web UIE-commerce

360

Discover the Fun Side of Healthy Snacking

Web UIF&B

280

Registration UI templates

UI KitApp Design

690

Landing Page for Online Education

Web DesignEdTech

What Clients Say

Testimonials

What people I've worked with say.

Shakti singh

User Experience Lead

Manish is very Knowdlegble and has an "I CAN DO" mindset against every problem. He has excellent technical knowledge of how web-based products work. He has eyes and background knowledge of design. I've worked on many successful products with him.

Gourav walia

Manesh is a very good Designer. I must say that, at the time he starts designs, he always welcomes suggestions from software developers as well. I felt very involved in the last project "myBridge" we worked on together. He always come up with many trending design ideas for Mobile App designs, and as i said he always discussed with the developer for the feasibility study. He is a good team player.

From the Blog

Latest Blog

Notes on UI/UX, product design, and design systems.

455

Figma newest features 2023

432

Figmaâ€™s awesome new Dev Mode brings designers and developers together

300

Gestalt Principles in User Interface Design

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Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Manish Kumar Rana? +

Manish Kumar Rana (mymkrana) is a product design leader with 9+ years building complex B2B SaaS, enterprise tools, and AI-powered products. He helps teams turn powerful-but-confusing software into experiences people trust and adopt — covering UX research, product strategy, AI/LLM UX, and scalable design systems.

What kind of work do you take on? +

The hard problems: AI experience design (LLM, conversational, human-in-the-loop), 0→1 product design, data-heavy B2B SaaS and enterprise UX, and design systems engineers actually ship. Less brochure websites, more products that have to work.

Do you have experience designing AI products? +

Yes — my recent focus is AI-powered features: generative tools, decision-support, and LLM interfaces. AI UX is its own discipline: designing around model uncertainty, building trust in answers that aren't always right, graceful fallbacks, and keeping a human in the loop.

Do you work with startups or enterprises? +

Both. I've done founding-designer, 0→1 work (RecoBee) and large enterprise & compliance platforms (ControlCase, Harvesting Farmer Network). Startup speed with enterprise rigor.

How can I work with you? +

I'm open to senior/lead product design roles, fractional product-design partnerships, and select consulting. Fastest way: WhatsApp at +91 7055526209 or email mymkrana@gmail.com with a short brief — I usually reply within a few hours.

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Let's build a product people trust

Have an AI feature, a data-heavy B2B tool, or a 0→1 idea? Tell me what you're building — I usually reply within a few hours.

Manish Kumar

Product Design Leader · AI & B2B SaaS

Open to lead product design roles, fractional partnerships, and select consulting. Tell me what you're building.

Phone: +91 7055526209 Email: mymkrana@gmail.com

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