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I am Raghu — an Indian Product Designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2012, I have been working as a developer pushing pixels or as a designer enabling others push the right pixels.
Given my love of working closely and iteratively in autonomous teams, I have had the privilege to work with startups including SlideShare (acq. LinkedIn), and former scale ups and now unicorns including BrowserStack, ClearTax (YC-14) & Epidemic Sound. I also was a long term contributor NextCloud as a part of Google Open Source Program.
Since 2021, I have been leading design for the editor experience at Mentimeter.
Photo courtesy: Alex Radsby
My belief system
I believe in continuous research—either by establishing a research practice or by engaging with ongoing explorative research within the organization—to build strong intuition early on.
I believe a designer's ultimate superpower is constant prototyping, both in exploring problem spaces and solution spaces. Prototyping is not just a stage in the design process; it is the backbone of the process.
I believe in the skills of the collective group and recognize that not all designers excel at everything. Great work happens when designers play to their strengths and involve other experts when tasks fall outside their comfort zones.
I believe in pushing efforts towards purposeful outcomes by figuring out user needs and the underlying problems that need to be solved, instead of focusing on the next feature that is to be built.