Now

A snapshot of what's on my desk right now. What's a /now page? — Inspired by Derek Sivers's idea: a public answer to "what are you up to?" that's more honest than a status update.

Working on at PwC

• CCTNS — leading citizen-services design for the Ministry of Home Affairs. Currently in pilot rollout. Mentoring 5 designers across the engagement.
• Shell — Pacific Platform — refining Insight.AI on the budget surface based on early-cycle finance-leader feedback. Iterating the explain affordances.
• Torrent — Patient App — recently shipped to public release. Watching first-month retention closely; family-member workflows are queued for v2.

Building (side projects)

• Stabilising CLAUDE.md Exporter for public release. Output format is the bottleneck — Claude Code's preferred system context shape keeps evolving.
• Polishing Design System Validator's rule-engine docs so consumer designers can contribute custom rules.
• Considering an open-source release of Conversation Flow Generator — has proven itself across CCTNS, Shell, and Central Union Bank engagements.
• This portfolio — every week brings new ideas to test. Source on GitHub.

Reading

• Designing Design Systems — Dan Mall (re-read; still the best practical book on system governance)
• Working in Public — Nadia Asparouhova (on the politics of open-source maintenance — relevant to Figma plugins shared with consumer designers)
• Anthropic's research blog — every published post since the Claude 4.6 release
• UX writing for AI products — currently the rarest, most underdocumented skill in the discipline

Listening to

• Lex Fridman's recent technology-policy interviews
• Practical AI podcast — episodes on agentic workflows in production
• Hindi indie music when shipping high-stakes work; lo-fi when prototyping

Obsessed with

• How to design refusal states in conversational AI products — currently the most underdesigned part of the field. Where AI confidently says "I don't know" is more important than where it confidently answers.
• The "system as contract" framing — design systems are technical contracts, not preferences. Consequence: deviation is a bug, not an opinion.
• The boundary between AI-generated and human-committed in regulated workflows. AI surfaces signals; humans commit decisions. The interface is where this contract lives.
• Whether senior PDs in 2026 should code or just be code-fluent. Currently leaning toward "ship in code if you can; understand it deeply if you can't."

Open to

• Senior Product Designer / Design Engineering / Design Systems Lead roles — India + GCC (Dubai / Abu Dhabi specifically of interest)
• Advisory engagements on AI-assisted design workflows, design system architecture, or regulated-domain UX
• Conversations with founders / CDOs / CPOs building AI-native products in healthcare, banking, or government

Not doing right now

• Conferences. Heads-down phase.
• Twitter/X. Still on it but rarely posting; LinkedIn is the primary channel.
• New consulting work outside the PwC engagement.

This page is updated roughly monthly. If you're reading it months after the timestamp above, the specifics have shifted — but the shape is usually the same.