Rucha Kulkarni

I'm redesigning a wealth management platform in the M&A vertical, shaping the product end to end. I built and pitched a strategy to shift from advisor-centric experiences toward client self-service, grounded in behavioral research on trust and autonomy in financial decision-making.

I prepare leadership for stakeholder pushback by anticipating hard questions and building the case in advance, not just the deck.

Previously, I built my company’s first design system from scratch, creating the foundation every product screen now ships from. As the sole designer on a website revamp, I owned the work from information architecture through final UI.

I’m drawn to ambiguous 0-to-1 problems and move fluidly between research, execution, and stakeholder strategy. I also developed hEar, a patented haptic communication device that gives deaf users phonetic feedback through touch.