UX Architect · Bengaluru, India
15+ Years Practice

I design systems that 15 million people depend on.

Government platforms. Automotive dashboards. Enterprise software delivered AI-first.

I lead UX architecture for iGOT Karmayogi and head the Design Centre of Excellence for Tarento's Build business unit, where I built HMHT, a method for AI-first design when real user research is constrained.

Harshit T Rao

Selected work

2018 – PRESENT
iGOT Karmayogi
15M+ users
Civic · AI-assisted

iGOT Karmayogi

Owned the design decisions across 100+ workflows on a platform where 15M+ users share almost nothing but the login screen.

Hector Rail
AI-first delivery
Enterprise · AI-first delivery

Hector Rail

One business, fragmented across country sites that didn't read as one. Unified the design language across every market in weeks.

CARA, Stellantis
Launched Sept 2025
Automotive · Voice AI

CARA · Stellantis

A one-line brief for a voice-assisted car companion. Launched publicly with Citroën's Basalt X in India.

Ashok Leyland Engage
6-month delivery
Enterprise · Intranet

Engage · Ashok Leyland

Speed was the premise of the engagement, built on Tarento's own Styria accelerator. Already commissioned for a second phase.

Project Anuvaad
22M+ documents
Civic · NLP

Project Anuvaad

Machine translation alone isn't good enough for a court judgment. Deployed as SUVAS and Amar Vasha for the Supreme Courts of India and Bangladesh.

Jeep Watch
Won the pitch
Automotive · Wearable

Jeep Watch

Won the Jeep pitch by bringing a voice assistant onto the wrist, beating Jeep's own existing watch app to do it.

Process · Method
My framework, built from practice

HMHT: How Might Human Think

A human cognition layer inside an AI-assisted design workflow, built by me to solve a real problem I kept running into: AI-generated design looks plausible without being grounded in anyone's actual reasoning. HMHT puts that reasoning step back in, deliberately, before generation happens.

iGOT Karmayogi Hector Rail Project Goodwill 7+ internal accelerators

The exact phase structure and prompting architecture stay close for now, available in full during a conversation.

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CONTEXT SETTING 1 2 3 4 5 HMHT HUMAN COGNITION ARTEFACT GENERATION FIVE-PHASE PROCESS

Project Goodwill

Independent work, not a client engagement
Project Goodwill screens
Personal IP
Civic · Self-initiated

Civic disruption is tolerable. Civic surprise is not.

A self-initiated civic information design exploration for Bangalore, built end-to-end using HMHT's full five-phase process. Real screens, a real North Star, and the honesty discipline to cut every unverifiable claim.

BangaloreHMHT five-phaseReal screens
About

Fifteen years across government, automotive, and enterprise SaaS.

Before any of this was architecture, it was craft, visual design, UI, and interaction design, done end to end, across roles as Designer, Senior Designer, Interaction Designer, and Principal Designer. That foundation never stopped: branding and logo work across Tarento's own identity, CimpliFive, several internal accelerators, and most recently Brownloop.

I lead UX architecture for iGOT Karmayogi and head the Design Centre of Excellence for Tarento's Build business unit, directing a mid-to-senior design team. As Practice Lead I set design standards, build career and quality frameworks, run a biweekly social media series, and lead the internship program end to end, from onboarding through project placement, with 2 interns converted to full-time hires and more in mentorship.

HMHT is a method I defined for designing with AI when real user access is constrained. It's now used across iGOT, Hector Rail, and several of Tarento's internal accelerators.

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Based in Bengaluru, India. Open to remote and to relocation with sponsorship.

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