rachna.design

What It Is

rachna.design is the personal portfolio and reflection blog of Staff Product Designer Rachna Unadkat. Unlike typical visually driven showcase sites, its core focus is on “designing systems, not screens,” emphasizing solutions to complex, messy underlying product logic rather than stopping at the visual presentation of individual pages.

Core Dimension Analysis

• Tool/Service Type: A personal brand showcase and design case library, not a commercial SaaS tool.
• Core Functionality: In-depth case breakdowns. The standout case is Lattice’s AI performance review project. She explains in detail the ethical considerations of introducing AI into a high-stakes scenario—performance evaluation—compares the interaction models of “agent-first” versus “embedded AI,” and ultimately chooses the embedded approach to reduce the cost of changing user behavior.
• Collaboration & Resources: The site itself has no collaboration features, but the case studies fully demonstrate her cross-functional collaboration skills, such as using FigJam to align boundaries with engineering, product, and talent teams. The resource library is small and curated.
• Design Philosophy: Emphasizes trust and transparency. For example, to guard against AI hallucinations, she introduces context panels and source attribution; when balancing friction and fluidity, she chooses to add friction when data is insufficient in order to protect trust.

Pricing & Copyright

A purely personal showcase site, with no pricing or commercial licensing information. Content copyright is not explicitly stated.

Pros & Cons

Pros: Offers highly valuable industry reference points on trade-offs between AI interaction models (embedded vs. agent-based); excels at translating complex business logic into clear design; shows deep insight into AI ethics and trust mechanisms.
Cons: As a personal site, its update frequency and number of case studies are limited; the project timeline marked “2026-Present” feels somewhat odd (possibly a placeholder or typo); the author is currently between roles and does not appear to have new projects in progress.

Who It’s For

B2B/SaaS product designers, AI product interaction designers, design team managers, and product managers who want to understand how AI can responsibly enter workflows.

Access in China

Unknown. Based on the assumption that it is a typical static personal site, it is likely directly accessible, but the text provides no network access information.