I design the stuff you tap, swipe, and doom-scroll at 3 AM instead of sleeping. Currently at YouTube making the binge-watching experience dangerously delightful. Your screen time report? yeah that's partially my fault 😅
Problems solved, pixels pushed, and thumbs saved. Here's the highlight reel (no filler episodes).
Designing the world's most powerful (and let's be honest, most addictive) video viewing experience. I obsess over how viewers control, navigate, and fall into the infinite content rabbit hole. Basically, I'm the reason you stayed up until 3 AM watching competitive marble racing. you're welcome 🏆
Led UX for the world's best smartphone camera. Simplified user flows, built an immersive UI, nailed social sharing, and made user education actually not boring. The whole point? Get out of your way so you can take better photos of your dog. 🐕 (and occasionally your friends i guess)
Designed the Musical Alarm wake-up experience in Android's default clock app. Because waking up to a blaring submarine radar sound is a crime against humanity 🚨. Now you can wake up to your favorite Spotify or YouTube Music playlist like a civilized human being. your mornings called — they said thank you.
Designed a wearable for clinical research that securely captures health data — and proved that a medical-grade device doesn't have to look or feel like a 1990s hospital monitor strapped to your wrist 🏥. This watch powers Project Baseline, an initiative to map human health. healthcare but make it fashion ✨
Designed a concept app for Small Businesses in India — better customer engagement, simpler storefronts, frictionless catalogs. Making sure your local chaiwala can leave you on 'read' professionally. 🍵 plot twist: WhatsApp actually shipped these features a couple years later. not saying they saw my pitch, but... 👀
A few shiny things I picked up along the way while trying not to break production. (only broke it twice, no biggie)
"Your contributions ensured our launches achieved the YT Leads level OKR and we are grateful for having you! Congrats!"
"The work that you've generated has been instrumental on developing our next design system, and we thank you for it."
"Your advice, workflow process, and general pros and cons for the different tools has helped inform my own workflow."
"Kartik has shown how to transform ideas into compelling prototypes that can be pitched to executives and influence product roadmaps."
"You faced a hard deadline, navigated tricky cross-team hurdles, and even gave up evenings and weekends to deliver flawlessly."
ngl, the vibes are immaculate
— every reviewer, apparently