Tanishk · Bengaluru · Available for work

Tanishk Salagame

Product Designer / Interaction Designer

Designing behaviour, not just screens. I move between research, interface behaviour, prototypes and working code in my roles as the product designer at Daynero, co-founder of Fluxion Studios, and the author of four independent interaction projects.

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· Experience

Daynero

  • Designing a personal finance product for first-paycheck earners in India, currently pre-MVP with a waitlist of roughly 200–300 people.
  • Shaped the core experience around one question: “How much can I safely spend today?” This turns account and spending data into a daily budget and contextual guidance.
  • Own product design across the five-person team, working directly with product and engineering from product logic through interface behaviour.
  • Designed the product around transaction understanding, manual spending, financial context and AI guidance rather than treating AI as a standalone chat feature.

Fluxion Studios

  • Co-founded a two-person design studio working directly with small businesses on paid digital projects.
  • Turn client conversations into scoped products: defining requirements, pricing work, writing proposals and deciding what can realistically be designed and built.
  • Stay involved beyond design, working through implementation constraints, client revisions and deployment rather than handing off at Figma.
  • Designed and shipped Taamboolam's live hospitality website, taking it from client requirements through interface design, enquiry flows, production QA and deployment.

Taamboolam ↗

· Selected work

Ariadne

  • AI can produce work faster than we can trust it.
  • I kept hitting the same problem while building with AI: agents could generate work much faster than I could reliably verify it. So I built Ariadne, an installable developer tool that structures AI-assisted work around evidence, validation, independent review and escalation.
  • Released through v1.6.7, with automated checks for implementation, review, release and rollback, including a validated update and rollback path.

Athena

  • Understanding something isn’t the same as being able to retrieve it.
  • Qualitative research with students, including a focus group and 1:1 interviews, kept surfacing the same contradiction: digital tools made information easier to understand, but that did not mean learners could recall or apply it later.
  • Designed and prototyped Athena around a learn → explain/apply → review loop, separating content consumption from evidence that the learner could actually use what they had learned.

Invisible Interfaces

  • What happens when interfaces stop asking for attention?
  • An interactive web essay and set of interface experiments exploring how products can move work away from explicit taps, menus and commands toward behaviour shaped by context, intent and system state.

· Leadership

Teens for Cancer Patients, South Bangalore

  • Led fundraising and awareness initiatives with the chapter, helping raise INR 1L+ for cancer-patient support.

· Education

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Google UX Design Professional Certificate

Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate

· Tools & build

Design

Figma · Framer

Build

React · Next.js · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · Git · AI-assisted development

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