THE PERSON BEHIND IT

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Hi, I’m Sreya.

I’m a product designer who likes finding a clear way through complicated things.

Over 10+ years, I’ve worked from first ideas to products at scale. I look for the patterns in ambiguous problems, help teams choose a direction, and carry ideas through to execution.

I care about experiences that feel intuitive, useful, and a little more delightful. Getting there means connecting people, products and systems, and making the trade-offs that move the work forward. I also mentor designers, helping them develop their thinking and craft.

Outside of design, you can find me

  • Experimenting in the kitchen
  • Trying to keep up with my reading
  • Making art
  • Playing games on my PC
  • Ragebaiting my dog, Ghost

A few chapters along the way

  1. Designer II → Senior Designer

    – present

    I lead experiences across OneDrive Photos, SharePoint and Teams, from first ideas to products at scale. Alongside Slideshow and Recaps, I build AI-native design systems, evaluation frameworks and workflows that help teams explore and validate ideas together.

  2. Founding Designer & Head of Design

    –

    As the founding designer, I helped establish sugar.fit alongside the founders, from branding and our office to research, design systems and multi-platform experiences for sugar.fit and ultra.fit. I built the design team from 0 to 8, including full-time and contract roles.

    View case study
    sugar.fit brand identity on a purple background.
    Establishing the company Company foundations, branding and communication
    The sugar.fit office, with shared desks and illustrated walls.
    Building the office Office design and physical spaces
    Connected care-service diagram from the MRes thesis, linking the mobile app with clinical and daily-life support.
    Research & development Research that shaped the product
    MRes thesis interface explorations showing the Sugar Journal, daily check-in and goals.
    Experience design Design systems and multi-platform experiences

  3. Senior Product Designer

    –

    I worked across food, fitness and health, owning research and design for health and medical products end to end. I partnered with product, business and founding teams to find product-market fit.

    Care.fit online consultations +92% repeat consultations in 6 months (service-wide)
    A group working out together with kettlebells at cult.fit.
    cult.fit social workouts Building a social workout format for friends and colleagues.
    +47% attendance
    +23.5% bookings

  4. Co-Founder & Designer

    –

    At blot, I managed and designed complex systems for international clients. Vegan League brought branding and UX together; art therapy workshops in Bangalore brought adults and students together to make art.

    Vegan League Branding and UX design
    Participants making art together in an outdoor workshop.
    Art therapy workshops Bangalore sessions for adults and students

  5. Designer → Senior Designer

    –

    I took “Make for India” and global projects from research to release, working with teams in South Korea on Game Launcher, Game Tools and Game Live. I also partnered with Samsung Research America on Bixby as part of the voice and intelligence team.

    Samsung games & live streams 100k+ Game Live downloads in 6 months on Google Play Bixby across voice & touch Usability-tested voice, touch and chat concepts
    Tizen Community experience for Samsung’s IoT operating system

Art journal

Paint on my hands

A few things I make just for me.

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Let’s live, Liam
Two black trainers hand-painted with blue-haired and blond anime faces.
Sherlocked
A textured portrait of Ellie seated with an acoustic guitar, in blue and warm earthy paint.
Ellie
A wall painted with a swirling blue night sky, golden stars and a dark cypress.
Wall
A black winged emblem with ink splatters beneath the words Look for the light on white paper.
Look for the light
Pink and purple lilies in a spiral-bound sketchbook, with small paint pans beside it.
Lilies
A circular collage of figures, instruments and handwritten details, framed by the words Sic Parvis Magna.
Sic parvis magna
A figure seen from behind in layered violet, blue, peach and dark brushstrokes.
Back
A blue-grey figure with raised arms beneath a small orange fish, against a pale washed background.
Gold fish
A close-up of a painted face divided by sharp blue, white and red strokes.
Divided
A woman's profile with a dark hair bun and ochre earring, painted in colourful layered strokes.
Who’s that girl
A monochrome oil-pastel study of feet on tiptoe in a sketchbook, with coloured pastels alongside.
Reaching out
An intricate dark lion drawing on golden paper, beside pens and drawing tools.
Saturday mornings done right
A grinning striped-shirt character holding a sword and a teddy bear, drawn in black ink on cream paper.
When you’re not particularly keen on teddy bears
A dog's profile built from blocks of gold, black, green and blue paint on a pale background.
Ghost by numbers
Artistic coercion
A textured flower and leaves in ivory, bronze and gold tones.
Gold
A mannequin head in profile, painted with broad pink, white and blue brushstrokes.
Mannequin
A painted portrait of three dogs sitting together against a soft blue background.
Momo, Muffin and Berlin
A black-and-white skull surrounded by red roses, fine leaves and ink splashes.
Skulls and roses
Two eyes drawn in overlapping black geometric lines on a golden-orange background.
Imperfect
A colourful dog's head in loose pink, orange and purple brushstrokes against pale green.
Rapdog
An orange butterfly inside a blue circular form, surrounded by warm ochre brushstrokes.
Butterfly
A delicate black butterfly with dotted wings over golden leaves and splashes.
Antenna
A luminous blue eye-like orb with green outlines and a slender stem on white paper.
Eye
An abstract face painted in deep blue and warm yellow with broad, expressive strokes.
She/her
Two painted figures leaning close together against a warm orange glow.
Dance
A dark rose, bare trees and graveyard crosses under a bright blue moon.
Rose, part 2
Two clawed hands linking fingers inside a heart divided into warm gold and deep red.
Promise, part 2
A stitched white rabbit doll suspended upside down in a web of fine threads.
Teddy, part 2
A small figure facing a tall shadow beneath an arch of dark forest branches.
Chocolate, part 2
A dark, horse-headed figure on a painted joker playing card.
Propose, part 2
Two embracing figures painted in cream, black and red against a dark background.
Kiss/consume
Two shadowy figures embracing, outlined by swirling white and grey brushstrokes.
Hug
A horned shadow looming above a smaller silhouette in a deep red and black painting.
Promise of the dark passenger
A pale segmented doll with red accents painted against black.
Teddy/Doll
A dark chocolate ice lolly with a small skull motif, painted against black.
Chocolate
A pale hand reaching towards a skeletal hand against a deep red background.
Propose
A golden skull crowned by a red rose, with red paint trailing down its forehead.
Rose
A ballet dancer in a flowing pale blue dress against textured red, gold and dark green paint.
Ballet
Red wild flowers rising from textured violet and blue foliage into a pale yellow sky.
Wild flowers
Layered blue and turquoise brushstrokes with a yellow figure and small red accents.
Impressions/expressions?
Small red and white flowers across a richly textured blue, green and golden field.
Flowers
A face with closed eyes, painted in layered white, blue, red and yellow strokes.
Your scars make you beautiful
An expressive open-mouthed face in bold blue, red and violet strokes against green.
Scream