Lokesh Saini is a Senior Product Designer based in Los Angeles with over 10 years of experience spanning user research, product strategy, interaction design, design systems, and frontend development. He owns the full product design cycle across healthcare, IoT, education, and consumer products. His work includes shipping apps to the App Store and Google Play, building design systems, and using AI-assisted workflows to deliver at startup pace.
Hi! I’m Lokesh. 🤚🏾
I research the problems, design the solutions, and <build /> the prducts.
Case Studies
Designed and built a cross-platform Flutter companion app for a premium IoT sunlight machine, from workshop through BLE integration to App Store and Google Play launch.
Built a Figma design system at seed stage, then rebuilt it twice for a rebrand and clinical regulation. Token architecture absorbed ~40 features and two team transitions with zero sprint delays.
Designed and shipped a cross-platform Flutter companion app for a screenless NFC medical device, from discovery workshop through App Store and Google Play launch.
How 6 weeks of UX research synthesis turned 18 months of fragmented LGBTQ+ healthcare data from 715+ respondents into product decisions a team could ship against.
Testimonials
“The combination of UX expertise and Flutter development is rare. Most agencies have separate designers and developers. Lokesh did both to an exceptional standard.”
“Lokesh's comprehension of what we needed was very, very good. Probably the best feedback I could offer. It all came together very nicely.”
“Because he can design and code, he understands problems end to end and communicates across teams in a way most people can't. He joined us and within weeks was contributing to everything from logo design to UX surveys to building and testing the apps. He took full ownership from day one.”
“Lokesh is faster than any developer or UX person I've worked with. He questions things that everyone else accepts, and he's not afraid to say what he thinks even when his take is different. That's exactly who you want at a startup.”
“We hired Lokesh to build an app and he delivered it in two months. He's professional, communicates clearly with anyone regardless of background, and hits every deadline. His work at the University of Hong Kong has been critical for brain injury patients across China and Oxford.”
Strengths
Research, interaction design, visual design, usability testing, design systems. The whole product, not just one slice of it.
80+ user interviews, 1,000+ survey responses, 20+ workshops across my career. Everything I design starts with talking to real users, testing prototypes, and building research-backed personas that shape what gets built.
Flutter, HTML/CSS, JavaScript. I manage the project, write the code, and get it out the door. AI workflows help me move faster.
Healthcare, education, IoT, social impact, advertising, consumer products. Early-stage startups and small teams. Solo and inside teams of 16.
Experience
Working with founders and small teams as the sole designer. Running the research, designing the product, and writing production code in Flutter when the project calls for it. Clients include a hardware startup shipping their first consumer lighting app, a medical device company needing a companion app, and a healthcare company rethinking how clinics get paid.
First design hire at an LGBTQ+ healthcare startup. Established the practice from scratch: component library, design tokens, documentation standards. Led 51+ user interviews and a 715-person survey, distilling findings into personas, journey maps, and design specs across iOS, Android, and web.
Designed software for CodeYourFuture, a non-profit helping refugees and disadvantaged people break into tech. Built a resource directory to help caseworkers support marginalized communities, running user research and usability testing throughout.
Owned the design and development of Android apps at an AdTech startup. Ran user research through interviews, observation, and usability sessions, then cycled findings back into the product. Mentored interns on Android development and design.
Designed and developed mobile apps as a solo contributor. Cureinstant connected patients with doctors, clinics, and hospitals for remote consultations. A cognitive screening tool for the University of Hong Kong helped patients with brain injuries.
