Ananya Asha Nair

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Senior Product Designer at Glade Studio | ex-McKinsey & Company

Glade Studio
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English, French
Co-founder
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Overview

I've spent 9 years on design systems - first at Dell Technologies, now at Glade Studio. Built a component library 72 engineers ship with every day. Before that: McKinsey & Company and Uber. I host a monthly meetup on design systems.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Second opinions on component libraries decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Courses and coaching offers

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Skills
accessibilitycomponent librariesFigmatokensdesign systems
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 7 weeks

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for credit underwriting for CPG brands

The idea
Credit underwriting for CPG brands
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in design systems
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Seattle or remote

I bring 9 years of design systems (currently Glade Studio). Ideally you've led a design team. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Seattle, WA · remote OKfigmadesign systemsaccessibility
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Product Designer
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Glade Studio · 9 mo · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
    • Ran 50 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 55% with clearer copy and states.
  2. Product Designer
    Jul 2024 - Sep 2025
    McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Built a component library 78 engineers ship with every day.
  3. Product Designer
    Jan 2023 - Jul 2024
    Uber · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 39% with clearer copy and states.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  4. Product Designer
    Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
    Pfizer · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Ran 72 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  5. UX Researcher
    Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
    Dell Technologies · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 38% with clearer copy and states.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2024

Built with Figma and accessibility. 2251 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Industrial Design
    2013 - 2017

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