You might see iteration plastered super huge on the footer of this portfolio but turns out I took this mantra pretty literally.
I’m a product designer in London now, but it took a few pivots to get here. I started in dentistry, dropped out. Got an undergrad degree in Hospitality, did a couple of internships and pretty quickly figured out that wasn't for me either.
I sampled a bunch in between. Video editing, FMCG sales, performance marketing, Salesforce development, GMAT prep so that I could become a management consultant and a lot more stuff that I don't even recall anymore. Just iterating till I figured out my Person career fit (pretty sure I made that term up LOL)
I was also the kid who’d root their phone and flash custom ROMs that felt cleaner and easier to use, long before I had words for why. In hindsight, I was already a sucker for good design.
I moved to London to study Human-computer Interaction on a STEM scholarship and graduated in January, 2025. Currently i'm the founding Product Designer at Nolana, a B2B SaaS AI startup where I built the interface design language, design system, product and everything from scratch.
When I’m not designing, I’m probably enjoying chole bhature, Kinder Bueno and recently have become obsessed with pistachio matcha from Blank Street.
You might see iteration plastered super huge on the footer of this portfolio but turns out I took this mantra pretty literally.
I’m a product designer in London now, but it took a few pivots to get here. I started in dentistry, dropped out. Got an undergrad degree in Hospitality, did a couple of internships and pretty quickly figured out that wasn't for me either.
I sampled a bunch in between. Video editing, FMCG sales, performance marketing, Salesforce development, GMAT prep so that I could become a management consultant and a lot more stuff that I don't even recall anymore. Just iterating till I figured out my Person career fit (pretty sure I made that term up LOL)
I was also the kid who’d root their phone and flash custom ROMs that felt cleaner and easier to use, long before I had words for why. In hindsight, I was already a sucker for good design.
I moved to London to study Human-computer Interaction on a STEM scholarship and graduated in January, 2025. Currently i'm the founding Product Designer at Nolana, a B2B SaaS AI startup where I built the interface design language, design system, product and everything from scratch.
When I’m not designing, I’m probably enjoying chole bhature, Kinder Bueno and recently have become obsessed with pistachio matcha from Blank Street.
If I didn’t love visual design, I’d be a PM. To this day I still care too much about both to pick a side. I think about how text from the API can be streamed in UI, token-by-token without jitter, layout shift and mask the latency while doing it. Working with engineers daily has made me pragmatic, maybe too pragmatic?
But ultimately, I became a product designer to help people and create impact at scale. If users feel the product has their back, that's success. Nothing else matters as much.
Say hello 👋
designedbyhari@gmail.com
© 2025 by Hariharan Ramesh
Say hello 👋
designedbyhari@gmail.com
© 2025 by Hariharan Ramesh
You might see iteration plastered super huge on the footer of this portfolio but turns out I took this mantra pretty literally.
I’m a product designer in London now, but it took a few pivots to get here. I started in dentistry, dropped out. Got an undergrad degree in Hospitality, did a couple of internships and pretty quickly figured out that wasn't for me either.
I sampled a bunch in between. Video editing, FMCG sales, performance marketing, Salesforce development, GMAT prep so that I could become a management consultant and a lot more stuff that I don't even recall anymore. Just iterating till I figured out my Person career fit (pretty sure I made that term up LOL)
I was also the kid who’d root their phone and flash custom ROMs that felt cleaner and easier to use, long before I had words for why. In hindsight, I was already a sucker for good design.
I moved to London to study Human-computer Interaction on a STEM scholarship and graduated in January, 2025. Currently i'm the founding Product Designer at Nolana, a B2B SaaS AI startup where I built the interface design language, design system, product and everything from scratch.
When I’m not designing, I’m probably enjoying chole bhature, Kinder Bueno and recently have become obsessed with pistachio matcha from Blank Street.
You might see iteration plastered super huge on the footer of this portfolio but turns out I took this mantra pretty literally.
I’m a product designer in London now, but it took a few pivots to get here. I started in dentistry, dropped out. Got an undergrad degree in Hospitality, did a couple of internships and pretty quickly figured out that wasn't for me either.
I sampled a bunch in between. Video editing, FMCG sales, performance marketing, Salesforce development, GMAT prep so that I could become a management consultant and a lot more stuff that I don't even recall anymore. Just iterating till I figured out my Person career fit (pretty sure I made that term up LOL)
I was also the kid who’d root their phone and flash custom ROMs that felt cleaner and easier to use, long before I had words for why. In hindsight, I was already a sucker for good design.
I moved to London to study Human-computer Interaction on a STEM scholarship and graduated in January, 2025. Currently i'm the founding Product Designer at Nolana, a B2B SaaS AI startup where I built the interface design language, design system, product and everything from scratch.
When I’m not designing, I’m probably enjoying chole bhature, Kinder Bueno and recently have become obsessed with pistachio matcha from Blank Street.
If I didn’t love visual design, I’d be a PM. To this day I still care too much about both to pick a side. I think about how text from the API can be streamed in UI, token-by-token without jitter, layout shift and mask the latency while doing it. Working with engineers daily has made me pragmatic, maybe too pragmatic?
But ultimately, I became a product designer to help people and create impact at scale. If users feel the product has their back, that's success. Nothing else matters as much.
Say hello 👋
designedbyhari@gmail.com
© 2025 by Hariharan Ramesh
Never stop iterating