Streaming Helper
Helping tired viewers move from endless browsing to a confident pick.
- 30Survey responses
- 7Interviews
- 5+Prototype tests
AI takes me to a prototype fast. Taste takes it all the way.
I'm Atharva, a product designer with a computer science background and a Masters in HCI/d from Indiana University. I research, prototype, test, and write the front end.
Available for product design roles · 2026
Selected work
Shipped work, research, and decisions that changed
Selected work / Project indexHover, focus, or swipe
Streaming Helper
Taking “what should we watch?” from a graduate capstone to a working product.
Consumer product · 30 survey responses- Role / period
- Independent product designer · Semester-long capstone · 2026
Streaming HelperMEAD
Exploring continuity, identity, and care for people living with advanced dementia.
Care research · 6-day sponsor-led sprint- Role / period
- Research, strategy, prototyping, and visual design · May 2025
Field Maintenance
Designing a clearer maintenance workflow from 45 stakeholder interviews.
Enterprise operations · 45 stakeholder interviews- Role / period
- UX strategist and design consultant · February–June 2025
Notes & experiments
Product decisions, build process, and moments beyond the desk
Building this portfolio with an AI-assisted workflow
Read the notesWhat moved faster, where judgment still mattered, and why every reversible decision was documented.
Extending Porsche’s design system without breaking its grammarDeconstructing a mature system, recomposing its parts, and adding one component that still belonged.
A little further
from the desk.
A few places, milestones, and things I keep coming back to.
Explore the full story
Always something
else to discover.