Open to senior IC roles · full-time, contract & fractional · 2026
Designing the ambiguous end of product.
I'm Anjani Varma — a Senior UX Designer & Researcher and NID alum. I turn high-stakes, fuzzy problems in AI, fintech and regulated SaaS into strategic, risk-managed product decisions.
- Years
- 7+
- Clients shipped
- 14+
- Industries
- 6
NID Alum · Based in India
Anjani Varma
Trusted by teams at
- IBM
- American Express
- Cognizant
- Compliance Group
- Agiledge
- MaaS360
Selected work · 2018–2026
Case studies in risk-managed design.
AI · Life Sciences
AI-enabled Quality Management
Embedding AI into Quality Management Systems for pharma manufacturing — turning compliance burden into proactive risk signal.
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No-Code · SaaS
No-Code App Builder
Product design, research and usability for a drag-and-drop enterprise app builder.
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Banking
Banking Operations Console
Reducing time-to-decision for relationship managers at a global bank.
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DAM
Digital Asset Management
Search-first DAM for marketing teams at scale.
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Enterprise Mobility
BYOD for IBM MaaS360
Securing bring-your-own-device workflows without friction.
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Mobility · SaaS
Agiledge — Employee Transport
Digitising employee transportation from spreadsheets into a safer, optimised, automated system.
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Mobility · Public Sector
SmartBike — Public Bike Sharing
Revamping the admin portal for a public bike-sharing operator scaling across cities.
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Systems thinker. Quiet researcher. Decisive designer.
I've spent the last decade designing for the kind of problems where the brief is unclear, the stakes are real and the wrong answer is expensive — AI workflows in regulated pharma, decision tools for bankers, mobility for security teams, and no-code surfaces for non-technical operators.
My practice combines deep qualitative research, service-design mapping and interaction craft — held together by a systems lens that anticipates downstream risk before it ships.
I trained at the National Institute of Design (NID)and have partnered with IBM, American Express, Cognizant, Compliance Group and Agiledge.
Approach
A four-move method for high-stakes product problems.
01
Frame the ambiguity
Stakeholder interviews, ecosystem mapping and a written problem brief everyone signs off on.
02
Research with intent
Mixed-method research designed around the highest-risk unknowns, not vanity metrics.
03
Design the smallest credible thing
Service blueprints, flows and interactive prototypes that make trade-offs visible early.
04
Ship, measure, harden
Usability testing, design-system contributions and a hand-off engineers actually enjoy.
FAQ
Questions clients ask first.
- What kind of work do you take on?
- Senior UX strategy, research, end-to-end product design and design-system work — usually for AI-enabled, regulated, or genuinely complex enterprise products.
- Do you work solo or with a team?
- Both. I embed with product/engineering teams as a fractional senior designer, or run discovery and design sprints solo with a clear hand-off.
- Are you available for full-time roles?
- Selectively, for senior individual-contributor or lead roles where the problem space is meaningful.
- How do we start?
- Email anjani.vc@gmail.com with a paragraph about the problem. I reply within two working days.
Let's collaborate
Have an ambiguous problem worth solving?
Open to full-time senior individual contributor roles, alongside contract and fractional work. Currently scoping engagements for 2026 — tell me what's hard about yours.