Vignesh Vasudevan

Designer by day,
builder by night.

Dubai · --:--

I feel the need, the need to design.

Let's build something →See the work

A Manchester United home shirt, B. Fernandes, number 8

taste is the last thing

that can't be automated.

Figma
Photoshop
Illustrator
Cursor
Framer
PowerPoint
Spline
Rive
Claude
ChatGPT
Notion
React
Astro

I'm not Batman but hey, is there one?

Where it starts
The wedding circuit
Nights that run long
The people who put up with me
Tbilisi, last winter

a few years on the wall, more to come.

Product designer, builder, Dubai kid. I make things that feel considered, then I make them again until they do.

How I got hereAn engineer by degree, at VIT in Vellore; a designer by the first job that let me.

What I do nowFirst product designer at Reno Home, building the design studio by day and my own things by night.

Pisces

Reno, by day.

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Reno Home renovates homes across the UAE. I'm their first product designer: I built the design team, the system and the process, then rebuilt the app around them.

The design studio

The studio is the part of Reno I'm building now: a design practice inside a renovation company, taking a home from the first idea to a build-ready bill of quantities, with the app as its spine.

the design studio · day job · Now

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Things I built.

WC26 Predictor
Liveweb · 2026
Predicts all 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup from real form and live odds.
Predict every World Cup match and flex on your friends with actual data.
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Tally
In the labweb · 2026
A money app that reads a statement the way a person would, not a spreadsheet.
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Demo data, not my money. iPhone app in build.
EV Charge Tool
In progressiOS · 2026
Find a charger, see if it is free, and plan the stop before the range anxiety starts.
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HabitDay
In the labiOS · 2026
A habit tracker that fits one screen: a year of squares, a tap to fill today.
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Taste is the last thing that can't be automated. I design by day, build by night, and ship what I would want on my own desk.

The route here.

Born in Dubai
01 · Dubai
Born and brought up in Dubai, school included. The city I keep coming back to.
Electronics at VIT
02 · Vellore
Undergrad at VIT University, Vellore: a bachelor's in Electronics and Communication. I cared less for the circuits than for how things felt to use.
Remote, in lockdown
03 · Chennai
Straight out of college, during COVID, working remotely from Chennai for an incubator startup. My first design work.
Startups, then McKinsey
04 · Bengaluru
Two more startups from Bengaluru, then my first job proper: two years designing at McKinsey.
Home, for Reno
05 · Dubai
A year off after McKinsey, then back to Dubai to be Reno Home's first product designer. The studio is the current chapter.

The night shift

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Flightplan

a skill I wrote

A planning skill I wrote for Claude Code. It reads a project, argues with the premise, then files one plan holding the context, the tickets and a live tracker — and hands over one ticket at a time.