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Product Designer · New York

I design for work that can't be simplified away.

A chemist choosing a synthesis route, a researcher working through a hundred papers, a care coordinator documenting a visit: none of them can be handed a simpler version of their job. What they can be handed is an interface that shows the right thing at the right moment, and is honest about what the system is doing underneath.

Some days that means…

  • reading reaction schemes with chemists
  • sitting in on client calls
  • co-writing PRDs with the CEO
  • building working front-ends in Cursor
  • prototyping the design system in code
  • untangling legacy healthcare software
  • testing whether researchers trust a citation
Harshini Patani
  1. untangle the mess
  2. sort what matters
  3. design for it

How I work

Figure out what's actually going on, find the distinctions that matter, and design around those rather than around the org chart or the database. It usually means writing the spec before drawing anything.

Background

I started as a software engineer at Amazon and studied CS at Cornell Tech, so I design with the data model in view. Since then I've been the founding or lead designer at three companies: DigiChem (agentic chemistry), Aristto (AI research), and eVero (healthcare software for disability service providers).

Best fit

  • Engineers who want to show the machinery
  • Founders who need a technical product to make sense to buyers
  • Domains I start out knowing nothing about