A product designer from India.Lately, not all my users are human.

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the swarm settled into a familiar shape — go on, pull

AUX — the feeling before the interface

Can I trust it?

Does it get me?

Will it do what I meant, not just what I said?

I design for the answer to all three.

AUI — the new surfaces

The button became a sentence. The sentence became a system.

AUI is everything after the chat box — the controls, glances, and guardrails that give a thinking product a face.

Agents.

You used to operate software. Now you brief it.

An agent takes a goal and goes.

The design isn’t a screen anymore — it’s a working relationship.

Trust · Control · A clean way to take back the wheel

sub-agents — the crew you never meet

Underneath every agent is a team that splits the work, does the labor, and vanishes.

Dozens of small minds, one calm reply.

Hiding that complexity is the craft.

05 / Selected work

Work should make the thinking visible.

Three speculative product studies about trust, evidence, and attention.

Concept work / No client affiliation

01Independent concept / 2026

Relay

A calm command center for agentic work.

A concept for delegating multi-step work without losing the thread. Intent, progress, and intervention points live in one shared plan.

Role
Product strategy / Interaction / Prototype
Focus
Trust and control
Case study outline

Challenge

Long-running agents create a visibility gap: people can see the request and the result, but not the consequential choices in between.

Design move

Turn the agent plan into a living contract with clear checkpoints, evidence, and a deliberate path for human intervention.

Validate

Whether people can predict the next action, spot risk early, and step in without restarting the work.

Product state / concept prototype

02Independent concept / 2026

Proof

Research that keeps every answer tied to evidence.

An evidence workspace for teams making high-context decisions. Claims stay connected to sources, confidence, and the dissenting view.

Role
Research systems / UX writing / Prototype
Focus
Evidence and confidence
Case study outline

Challenge

AI summaries are fast, but the compression hides uncertainty and makes it hard to inspect why a conclusion should be trusted.

Design move

Make provenance part of the reading experience, with claim-level citations and visible confidence instead of a detached source list.

Validate

Whether reviewers can verify a claim quickly and notice where the evidence is thin before a decision is made.

Product state / concept prototype

03Independent concept / 2026

Morrow

Care coordination without the notification fatigue.

A concept for clinical teams managing ongoing care. The system protects attention by separating routine progress from moments that need judgment.

Role
Service design / Product design / Systems
Focus
Attention and escalation
Case study outline

Challenge

When every update arrives with the same urgency, important changes disappear inside a stream of routine activity.

Design move

Organize the day around care-plan exceptions, with enough patient context to decide without opening a chain of disconnected tools.

Validate

Whether teams respond faster to genuine exceptions while spending less time clearing low-value alerts.

Product state / concept prototype

about — the human

I'm Nakul,

a product designer from India working at the edge where AI products meet real people.

I make honest products that tell you what they’re doing, earn trust, and get out of the way.

Have a thinking product that needs a face?

Let’s make it feel human.

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