Mobin VargheseProduct Designer

Explore / Cialfo

Design system and AI-native experiences

Design-system foundations and Saige, an AI annotation layer that marks up the interface in place.

Working notes

From the project brief. Draft wording, to be rewritten with Mobin.

  • Senior Product Designer work on design-system foundations, reusable UI and AI-aware experiences for education and career exploration.
  • Saige: an AI annotation layer that contextualises and marks up the interface instead of living in a separate chat window.
  • Possible further stories: the student career explorer, course and university exploration, design-system migration, and balancing personalised guidance with open discovery.
  • Mobin supplied working design-system counts and adoption figures. They stay out until confirmed.

Context and problem

To write with Mobin: what was broken or missing, for whom, and why it mattered then.

User and business needs

To write with Mobin: what users needed, what the business needed, and where those pulled against each other.

Role, collaborators and scope

To write with Mobin: what Mobin owned, who he worked with, and what was out of scope.

Constraints, evidence and insights

To write with Mobin: the constraints that shaped the work and the evidence behind key decisions.

Options and decisions

To write with Mobin: directions considered, the one chosen, and why the others were rejected.

The experience

To write with Mobin: the end-to-end flow and the interaction details that carry it.

Validation, iteration and trade-offs

To write with Mobin: how the design was tested, what changed, and what was traded away.

Outcomes

To write with Mobin: verified results, what each metric means and how it was measured.

Reflection

To write with Mobin: what Mobin learned, what he would change, and what remains unknown.