Melbourne, VIC

Varun Prasad

Lead Product Designer · Design Systems · AI-Powered Design · Complex SaaS

Product designer specialising in design systems and AI-powered design for complex, data-dense SaaS platforms. Sole design authority for four years at Pronto, a project management platform serving 60,000+ users across 30+ countries.

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Selected work

Pronto

Building a Governed, Token-Based System for Product and Engineering

213 UI discrepancies consolidated into one primitive-to-semantic token system, built with engineering rather than handed to them.

40%

Pronto

Designing for Trust Without an Existing Precedent for AI Features

Two production AI features, one trust pattern: generate, review, refine, apply. Tested once by success, proven again by a failure I own.

5 min

Pronto

Redesigning the Dashboard to Lift Engagement and Fit Users' Roles

One static landing screen replaced with a configurable, role-based widget system, benchmarked against category leaders before scoping.

50%

Mercury (VentraIP)

One Platform, Every Brand: A Token System Built for White-Label Resale

A domain, hosting, and billing console built once and resold across live reseller brands through Figma Variables and Modes, not a rebuild per brand.

18%

How I work

Design systems

Token architecture built with engineering, not handed to them. Documented, governed, adopted without designer sign-off on every change.

AI-powered design

Trust patterns for AI-generated output: review before commit, refine on request, opt-out always available.

Discovery to delivery

Audits, user research, prototyping, handoff, and adoption, owned end to end rather than handed off between stages.

Complex, multi-role SaaS

Products where the same screen means something different to every role viewing it, and the design has to hold for all of them.

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Open to Lead and Senior Product Designer roles, and select independent design engagements.

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