Hi, I’m Karthik.

A product and design lead who has spent nine years turning ideas into products — across hardware and software, enterprise and consumer, from Chennai to Uppsala and back. Most recently I led product and design for Orbit, a consumer neurowearable from Neurostellar.

What I’ve shipped is in work Neurostellar2024–26 NeXR Labs2023–24 Warpin2022–23 Zoho2017–21 4 roles, 9 years . What I researched and published along the way sits in research Ethics of XR, RISE2023 Interactive ML, Uppsala2022 Papers, Springer + CHI2025 Coursework case studies4 . What I experiment to learn goes in the lab UXwikiUX glossary Know Your Vote8,000+ visitors Small tools3 Dribbble shots9 . Where I speak, teach, mentor, and advise is in advisory Consultingearly-stage startups Mentoring8+ into design Teachingdesign leadership SpeakingBCI, 0 to 1 , and what I’m good at is in skills Product0 to 1, GTM DesignSystems, UX ResearchHCI, testing TechnologyAI, LLMs LeadershipTeams, ops .

I’m on LinkedIn, you can book time on Topmate, my résumé is one page, and my inbox is karthik.venkataraman96@gmail.com.