October 2026
Prajwal Laharia
Product Designer / Design Engineer · Pune, India
Profile
Product Designer and Design Engineer focused on design systems, complex workflows, and AI-assisted product development. Experience spans a live Google product through Smollan and independent web and Android products, from research and prototyping through implementation.
Completed the Google UX Certification before contributing to a live Google product early in my career.
Experience
UX/UI Designer
Google xWF via Smollan
- Built a token-based design system with Figma Make and Claude Code, reducing design effort by 60-70% and improving consistency across product interfaces.
- Built a full-stack internal tool to automate content and design workflows, reducing manual effort for content and design teams by 80%.
- Simplified complex CMS workflows by aligning business rules, AI-assisted improvements, and interface design, reducing user effort by 40%.
- Led UX audits, primary user research, and product design decisions for a confidential enterprise productivity platform, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- The design system accelerated ideation by up to 80%.
Independent work
FixTheResume
2026- Designed and built an AI-assisted resume product combining guided input, ATS and recruiter scoring, and an iterative LLM refinement workflow.
- Created real-time feedback for keyword alignment, narrative coherence, and supporting evidence, helping users identify gaps before refining their resumes.
- Resume quality scores improved by up to 42% on average, according to the product's scoring models.
- Designed an LLM refinement pipeline supporting up to five iterations; a simulated recruiter evaluation showed a 2.3x higher interview-shortlist rate.
- The scoring and feedback system increased measured resume-job alignment accuracy by 35%.
ScoreKeeper
2026- Designed and built an Android and web scorekeeping product for casual sports groups, taking it from wireframes and UX testing through working implementation.
- Connected match logging with standings, player profiles, history, rankings, and performance insights; reduced manual match-tracking effort by 80% in internal testing.
- Designed and implemented match logging, standings, player profiles, history, comparisons, rankings, streaks, and performance analytics.
- In closed-beta testing, score-entry completion speed improved by 65%, user confusion fell by 48%, and repeat-use intent increased by 2.4x.
Skills & tools
Design: Product design, complex workflows, information architecture, design systems, UX research and validation
Engineering: Functional prototyping, design-to-code implementation, component-based UI development, AI-assisted workflows
Tools: Figma, Figma Make, Claude Code, Framer, Vercel, Stitch
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications
BVP IMED, Pune
Coursework: Human-Computer Interaction, Web Development, Software Engineering