Chetan Hegde

About Me

Making the complex feel simple.

I'm Chetan, a Lead Product Designer in Bangalore. For 11+ years I've turned messy, multi-role products into clear, scalable experiences across SaaS, enterprise, healthcare and fintech. I start with the why, add structure to ambiguity, and build systems that help teams ship.

HFI Certified Usability AnalystIBM Enterprise Design Thinking
11+Years of experience
3+Years leading designers
50+Projects delivered
∞Always learning

Principles

How I Work

Four ideas behind every project.

Why before how

I start by understanding the problem, the people and the business before designing a single screen.

Structure over surface

Most product problems are missing structure, not missing polish. I audit and map first, then design.

Systems, not screens

I build foundations (patterns, tokens, components) that keep a growing product consistent and fast to ship.

AI as a partner

I use AI to speed up research, exploration and prototyping, while product judgment stays human.

Journey

My Journey

From visual craft to product strategy, systems and leadership.

2015Visual design

Starting with visual craft

I learned that details matter. Typography, hierarchy, spacing and composition still shape every interface I design.

01 / 06
2017UI & UX

From how it looks to how it works

Flows, information architecture, interaction design and usability became the starting point, before any pixels.

02 / 06
2019Product

Owning problems end to end

From requirements and research to prototypes and delivery with engineering. Design stopped being an execution role.

03 / 06
2020Systems

Designing for scale

Design systems, reusable patterns and accessibility, so a team can ship hundreds of good experiences, not just one good screen.

04 / 06
2021Enterprise

Organising complexity

Multi-role products, legacy systems and dense data. Good enterprise UX doesn't remove complexity; it makes it understandable and actionable.

05 / 06
2022Leadership

Leading design

Leading initiatives, mentoring designers and aligning product, design and engineering. Now exploring how AI changes the way products are designed and built.

06 / 06

Work

Recent Case Studies

A closer look at how I work, project by project.