Hi, I’m Kamal Raaj. I take messy, complicated problems and quietly turn them into products that feel obvious. I do the whole thing: research, problem framing, interaction, motion, and a design system that doesn’t fall apart. Then I check whether it actually moved a number, because a pretty screenshot has never once paid rent.
Receipts, not adjectives
Clueso wants someone who frames the problem, ships the polished thing, systematizes it, and can tell whether it worked. Cool. Here’s all of that, mapped one to one, no fluff.
Research, problem framing, flows, wireframes, prototypes, final UI, ship. Proven twice over on Licaverse and ZenMode, no hand-offs to hide behind.
I wire up funnels, retention, and PMF signals so we know if a decision worked instead of arguing about it in Slack.
Semantic, MCP-ready token systems that keep things consistent from one screen to a whole ecosystem, even when I’m not in the room.
Prototyping, micro-interactions, motion. How it moves is how people decide to trust it. So yeah, I sweat it.
Award-winning UX research (hi, MIT ID Quasar). I find the real pain point before I go fall in love with a solution.
Hackathon-speed shipping, plus the discipline to feed what actually happened back into the next round.
Focus mode
2H 34M today
Featured case / product, system, motion
An open-source mindful Android launcher with the world’s first buddy accountability feature (yes, first, I checked). I carried it from research to a shipped product, a token-based design system, a physical companion, and PostHog analytics that prove it works. Basically the exact job Clueso is hiring for, done on my own time for fun.
Second flagship, three long years
A gamified learning platform where I took an overwhelming, fragmented problem and turned it into one product people could actually understand. Same muscle as making video creation feel effortless, just with more all-nighters.
Open the full case ↗
How my brain works
I hold two things at once: the big architecture that keeps a product scalable, and the tiny detail that makes it feel good. I get on well with engineers and PMs, frame problems clearly, and design things that are as measurable as they are pretty. Turns out you can have both.
“How it looks is part of how it works. And how it performs is how you find out it works.”
Why Clueso
Clueso makes complex video creation simple, powerful, and delightful. That’s pretty much my favorite kind of problem. I’d show up ready to own features end to end and be annoying about craft in the best way.
Video, media, and AI workflows are dense by nature. Turning that density into flows people breeze through is the exact work I’m into.
Own the flow ↗Clueso obsesses over every pixel and frame. Same. Motion, interaction, and the small details are where a product earns trust.
Raise the bar ↗I’m comfy in product analytics, so I can connect a design call to adoption and retention instead of just hoping.
Prove the value ↗Say hi
Bengaluru, on-site, design-first. I’m bringing product taste, research discipline, motion craft, an analytics habit, and a strong preference for being useful over being impressive.