I design dense, data-heavy SaaS tools — turning workflows people used to need a manual for into products teams can build on for years. Four years deep in construction tech.
The premise
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Most software makes people feel stupid — endless tabs, hidden rules, a manual nobody reads.
2
I’ve spent four years in construction tech, some of the gnarliest workflows there are, proving it doesn’t have to be that way.
3
My job is to find the one decision a product hangs on, build the system around it, and make the whole thing feel obvious.
Four years, two roles, one throughline — making complex things usable.
Linarc
Product Designer
Sep 2022 – Present | Full time
Leading end-to-end product design for a construction management platform used by general contractors and subcontractors. I own the design across Documents, Financials, Scheduling and Quality — from the first research call to shipped features.
Projects
Lookahead
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Lookahead scheduling
Turned the rolling 3-week lookahead into a live, shared plan — so the field and the office finally work from one source of truth.
Product
Linarc
Area
Scheduling
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Templates
Sheet 2 of 5
Template system
A reusable template framework — projects, documents and workflows spin up in minutes instead of being rebuilt from scratch every time.
Product
Linarc
Area
Design system
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Change Order Management
Sheet 3 of 5
Bridging scope & budget
Scope changes lived in email and spreadsheets, disconnected from budget and schedule — so approvals stalled, margin leaked, and no one trusted the numbers.
Product
Linarc
Area
Finance
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Personal project
Sheet 4 of 5
பட்டறை
Tamil for “workshop / forge”
Pattarai
A two-sided marketplace concept building trust into how Tamil Nadu hires contractors — for full construction projects, not one-off repairs.
Type
Marketplace concept
Region
Tamil Nadu
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Logo & Branding
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Blue
#005CEB
Lime
#AEEA00
Black
#000000
Think with Thani
A personal identity built from two simple shapes, a hexagon and the letter T, with a full kit for logo, color, type and how to use them.
Scope
Logo · Color · Type
Version
1.0 · Nov 2026
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Recognition
Linarc · 2026
The Unsung Hero
“For making an extraordinary impact through quiet dedication and selfless contributions.”
Awarded by
Linarc
Awarded to
Thanigaivasan
Date
24 July 2026
The method
So how does messy, contradictory, real-world complexity end up feeling obvious?
How I get to “obvious”
4 phases
Phase 1
Understand the mess
I map the real workflow before touching a frame — who’s blocked, where trust breaks, what the current tool hides.
Phase 2
Find the load-bearing decision
Every project has one call that everything else hangs on. I find it early and pressure-test it.
Phase 3
Design the system, not the screen
Reusable patterns so the product scales well past the first release — and eng can build on it.
Phase 4
Validate with the people who live in it
Test with actual users, measure the drop in friction, iterate until it disappears.
Systems thinking
Pattern library — sample
Design the system,
not the screen
A screen solves one problem once. A system solves a class of problems for years. Most of my work at Linarc lives in the patterns underneath — the parts eng and PM keep reusing long after I’ve moved on.
Color
Buttons
Primary
Secondary
Destructive
Field
Change order amount
$ 24,500.00
Status
Approved
Needs review
Draft
Foundations
Tokens & density scales tuned for data-heavy tables and long financial records.
Patterns
A shared component library — states, empty states, validation and error voice standardized across modules.
Handoff
Documented behavior so engineers implement the intent, not just the pixels.
Design system
Live documentation
Thani’s Design System
The tokens, components and page templates behind every product screen, documented for the people who design with them and the people who build them.
287
Variables
54
Text styles
39
Components
4
Page templates
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Capabilities
I lead product design end-to-end — from the first messy research call to the pixels engineers ship. Here’s where I’m strongest, grouped by the part of the job it belongs to.
Craft
Interaction design
Accessibility
Information architecture
Design systems
AI Prototyping
Visual & UI design
Research
Discovery interviews
Usability testing
Workflow mapping
Journey mapping
Synthesis & insight
Domains
Complex SaaS
Data-heavy tools
Enterprise B2B
Construction tech
0 → 1 products
Tools
Figma
FigJam
Framer
Design tokens
Prototyping tools
Collaboration
Engineering handoff & QA
PM partnership
Cross-functional facilitation
Design documentation
Years
4+
Companies
02
Construction-tech platform
1
Got a problem worth solving?
Let’s figure it out together.
I’m currently open to full-time Product Designer roles — especially teams working on complex SaaS, enterprise tools, or workflow-heavy products.
Whether you have a role, a project, or just want to swap ideas — my inbox is open.
@crafted by Thani
Get in touch: thanigaivasan97@gmail.com
