YSNew York City
01 /About

Product Designer & Strategist based in New York

I’ve spent the last seven years figuring out how to make complicated things feel obvious. At HP, that meant redesigning printer software used by tens of thousands of people who never wanted to think about printers. At Accenture, it was enterprise onboarding flows where a single confusing field could lose a patient. At Parsons, it became something bigger: understanding how design decisions carry bias, and how AI can either amplify or correct it.

What I keep coming back to is the seam between strategy and craft. I like being in the room where the business model gets debated, and I like being the one who turns that conversation into an interface someone actually wants to use. I think the best designers do both: they don’t just make things pretty, they make things right.

Right now I’m finishing my MS at Parsons, building AI-native tools, and trying to figure out what design practice looks like when your most powerful collaborator is a language model.

02 /Experience
Disruptive Edge
Disruptive EdgeInnovation & Strategy Intern
2025
Parsons ELab
Parsons ELabResearch Assistant
2026
HP Inc.
HP Inc.Product Designer
2020
Accenture
AccentureUX Designer
2017
03 /Education

Parsons School of Design

MS Strategic Design & Management

2026
04 /Now

Exploring AI-native design patterns

Finishing MS at Parsons School of Design

Building tools with Claude Code & Cursor

Researching bias in venture capital decisions

05 /Design Beliefs

Complexity is a design failure.

Strategy without craft is a deck. Craft without strategy is decoration.

The best interface is the one that teaches you something.

06 /Toolkit
User ResearchInformation ArchitectureWorkshop FacilitationAI PrototypingUX DesignDesign SystemsService DesignFigmaCursorClaude CodeProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementEnterprise B2B
07 /Beyond Work

Based in New York. Perpetual optimizer. Finds calm in long walks and loud music.

Let’s work together

yash.sonwaney@newschool.edu