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ABOUT

Pramodini Subramanya

A product designer who turns complex, data-heavy products into things people actually understand. Engineer by training, endlessly curious by nature — and happiest when a hard problem finally clicks into something simple.

Pramodini Subramanya by a clear alpine lake with snow-capped mountains behind her.

I grew up in a small village in India, where things were simple and resources were few. We didn't have fancy gadgets or design tools — but we had stories, colors, and a lot of imagination. I was the kid who asked endless questions, took things apart, tried to fix them (sometimes badly), and spent hours sketching just for the joy of it.

When I moved to the city to study engineering, I thought I was choosing the practical path. But somewhere between algorithms and circuits, I found myself far more interested in why things were built than how. I cared about how people actually used technology — what frustrated them, what made them smile. That curiosity, plus my love for art, slowly pulled me toward design.

"I'm still that curious kid from a small village — just with better tools and a wider world to explore."

It wasn't a straight line. I learned by observing, by building, by making mistakes, and by staying endlessly curious. Over time I stopped thinking of the work as designing screens and started seeing it as solving real human problems with clarity — whether that was making ML outputs readable at Happymonk.ai, or turning a confusing credit score into something a person at bonify could actually understand.

Today I live in Nürnberg — a city that blends history and creativity, a lot like my own journey. I feel lucky to work in a field where listening to people, thinking deeply, and crafting meaningful experiences isn't just valued, it's the whole point.

EXPERIENCE

Where I've done the work

Previously part of teams at
bonify SCHUFA Group Barbeque Nation Cumulations Happymonk.ai Tripedeo Cybervie
MAY 2022 — PRESENT
Berlin / Remote
bonify (SCHUFA Group)
Associate Lead UI/UX Designer

I was the sole designer on a fintech platform used by millions of people. That means I ran discovery, shaped problem definitions, built the design system, set up critique rituals, did the research, shipped the work, and then measured whether it did what we thought it would.

  • Designed SCHUFA Score History — 60K+ users in month one, drove subscription conversion
  • Cut iteration time by ~40% by building an AI-assisted prototyping workflow with Claude + Figma Make
  • Introduced structured design critique rituals that reduced implementation rework
  • Delivered outcomes contributing to 70K+ subscribers and €400K+ revenue
APR 2021 — APR 2022
Remote
Cumulations
Senior Product Designer (Founding Team)

This was a founding-team role, which meant wearing a lot of hats — including making the case for design having a seat at the table before there was even a table.

  • Led the redesign of Barbeque Nation's app — time-to-checkout down 20%, order completion up 12%
  • Redesigned analytics dashboards for a B2B SaaS platform — task completion time down 30%
  • Audited and consolidated the existing UI into a scalable component library
  • Awarded Best Employee for production-ready designs that didn't need rework
DEC 2020 — MAR 2021
Remote
Tripedeo & Cybervie
Design Consultant
  • Simplified Tripedeo's pricing and checkout — revenue up 18%
  • Restructured Cybervie's onboarding — week-one drop-off down 22%
JUN 2019 — NOV 2020
India
Happymonk.ai
UI/UX Designer

Conducted usability tests and implemented iterative improvements in collaboration with the engineering team, enhancing user satisfaction across high-interaction workflows

EDUCATION
AI for UX Design
Designlab · 2026
Google UX Design Certificate
Udemy · 2020
UI/UX Design Diploma
DesignBoat School · 2019
Bachelor of Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University · 2015–2019
LANGUAGES
English
Professional working proficiency
German
A2, actively learning

I'm learning German slowly and deliberately — the same way I approach most things.