Hi, I'm Anuja, a product designer looking for my next senior or founding role.

I turn your most complex problem into something as obvious as a chair, and build a working version in hours or days.

TBH, I'm better at working on your problems than talking about myself. So, what are you working on?

Reach out

Selected work

ReportCaster Legacy modernizationShipped April 2024 5 → 1subsystems into one hub A decades-old scheduler had split into five subsystems; the redesign consolidated them into one hub. Shipped April 2024, then grew from five delivery methods to eight with no redesign.
Natural Language Query Natural-language AIShipped +25%adoption, with a new model Ask your data a question in plain English. Adoption of natural-language query rose 25% once the redesign and a new model shipped together.
Warden AI agent orchestrationLive 5 gateson every agent request Governs what AI agents may do across four of my live apps. Every request passes a five-gate decision ladder, and pausing an agent actually stops it.
Automated Insights Designing AI outputShipped in 9.3 Machine-generated insights, redesigned end to end. Shipped in 9.3.
Pathwise AI with citationsLive Projects education ROI and career paths, and every extracted fact carries its source.
ML Functions Making ML usableUnreleased · built and tested 4 of 4technical SMEs, unaided 12 to 15 clicks became a guided four-step wizard. Four of four technical SMEs trained a model unaided.
Finance Chief Local-first product designLive A decision engine for long-horizon money questions that keeps your data on your machine. The demo household is fictional.
IQ Hub AI platform unificationUnreleased · design complete 3 → 1places into one home Natural-language query, insights and machine learning lived in three places. The design brought them into one home.

How I work

Break it down.
Assess it.
Solve it.
Keep refining.

“Before deciding what we’re going to put there, why don’t we clarify?”

“Design instincts don’t mean anything if you don’t have the evidence or logic to back it up.”

“I was so scared of AI agents and felt it was out of my reach. But it’s so fun.”

“If we implement this right now, getting from this version to this version will be a breeze.”

Watch the 73-second film, in my own voice

Senior Product Designer at Cloud Software Group

August 2022 – November 2025 · ibi WebFOCUS

$175M: P&L business unit, three years on WebFOCUS
5-year: multi-million-dollar renewal followed the ReportCaster redesign
+25%: natural-language query adoption, once my redesign shipped with a new model
30+: engineers and four PMs aligned. None of them reported to me.

Three years on WebFOCUS, in a $175M P&L business unit. I led the first-ever redesign of ReportCaster, the decades-old scheduler behind millions of automated jobs a week. The at-risk account stayed, and a five-year, multi-million-dollar renewal followed. Natural-language query adoption went up 25% once my redesign shipped with a new model. I got four PMs and 30+ engineers aligned, and none of them reported to me. I mentored the designers who took ReportCaster over, and when half the design team was cut, I managed more than half the platform's UX architecture.

Built by orchestrating AI agents

Build Lab · November 2025 – present

4: live apps whose AI agents Warden governs
5: gates on every agent request. Pausing an agent actually stops it.
Day 1: Warden and Inkwell were first deployed the day I started them

I design my own products and direct the AI agents that build them: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity. It started with this portfolio and grew from there. Warden governs the agents across four of my live apps; every request passes a five-gate check, and pausing an agent actually stops it. Pathwise projects education and career paths from cited data, so every fact carries its source. Ask Anu, the chat on this site, is tuned to my own writing. Honest, adaptive tools I built for a need I couldn't buy — they turned into products.

What leaders say

“She brings a rare combination of strategic thinking, design intuition, and the ability to work seamlessly across product, engineering, and business teams. Any team would be lucky to have her.”

Vijay Raman · VP of Product Management

“She approaches her work with a fearless attitude and is never afraid to explore new ideas or directions. Anuja is willing to take on difficult problems and push for creative solutions, even under tight timelines.”

Dave Pfeiffer · Director of Design

“The clarity of her designs, in spite of the underlying data science and machine learning complexity, is impressive. Her design solutions are rooted in a deep understanding of the purpose of the product.”

Marcus Horbach, Ph.D. · Principal Data Scientist

“She impressed everyone with how quickly she grasped all aspects of a highly intricate system and translated it into a clear, modern, user-centered design. The kind of UX leader any team would be lucky to have.”

Yingchun Chen · Principal System Software Engineer

“Her design thinking workshops and prototype walkthroughs often became the foundation for key product decisions, driving clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams.”

Karishma Khadge · Sr. Product Manager

“Anticipating the next move of the user, that is next level UI! Her design was clean, intuitive, and clearly addressed the needs of users across different skill levels.”

Anita George · Principal Account Technology Strategist

“Anuja demonstrated exceptional ability to understand intricate workflows and translate them into elegant, user-centric designs that elevated the product’s usability and visual appeal. An invaluable contributor to any design-led team.”

Aniket Awchare · Sr. Product Manager

“Smart and very attuned to user needs, she ‘just gets it’ and developed intuitive designs that were very well received by our end users. Dedicated, thoughtful, and highly creative — she’d be an asset to any team.”

Radhika Tekumalla · Founder · Kedazzle (EdTech)