I’m Karthik Sivacharan

CurrentlyLeading design @ Trainwell ↗Leading everything design @ Trainwell ↗

I’m a designer engineer, so I design and build products, duh. I like breaking problems into smaller chunks I can actually solve, prototyping quickly and testing it out in the real world.

I got into design by accident and a bit of luck.

I was trying to build a tool with some friends in undergrad and someone had to design and build it, so I taught myself Sketch, Figma and React. Somewhere in the process I just fell in love with the idea of using design to solve problems.

How I
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The way I work has changed a lot over the years. These days it’s pretty much all inside a terminal, where I prototype my ideas with a design token system and a bunch of markdown files. I mostly use the Figma canvas to document decisions and the whys behind them.