UX Design & Product Leader

20+ years designing and leading across enterprise software, complex workflows, digital products and emerging AI experiences. I work at the intersection of people, product and systems — turning complicated business problems into experiences that are clearer, more useful and built to scale.

Karen Thorat at her desk with a laptop

25+ years

Shaping tech ecosystems

Complexity → Clarity

  • Product Strategy
  • Experience Architecture
  • AI & Automation
  • Research
  • Design Leadership

01 // System Philosophy

Software often fails because it prioritizes pixel decoration over relational clarity. By mapping structural connections first, the eventual interfaces resolve naturally.

Stage 01 — System Mapping

How do participants work, construct files, and request updates?

Before sketching a single wireframe, we draft interactive relational loops between legal practitioners, corporate sponsors, and foreign nationals. We model documents not as static PDFs, but as relational entities flowing down a state machine.

02 // Energy Systems

The hardest climate challenges extend beyond a single dashboard. They live across field operations, utility networks, permitting, and shared accountability. I design the systems that help every team act on the same trusted picture.

IMAGILITY

ECOSYSTEM

Connecting people, legal workflows, USCIS documents, and intelligent automation across immigration.

18
System states
240+
Automated USCIS Rules
99.7%
Filing Accuracy

Relational paradigm

Instead of treating each screen as an isolated experience, I designed the Case Management Hub as the centre of a connected ecosystem — linking people, forms, documents, petitions, RFEs, and external systems.

Case Management Hub

Single source of truth

  • People

    Beneficiary · Petitioner · Attorney · HR / Employer

  • FORMS BUILDER

    USCIS Forms · Dynamic form logic

  • PETITION BUILDER

    Rule-driven petition packets

  • Documents

    Store · Classify · Auto-extract (OCR)

  • External System

    USCIS · APIs · Notifications

  • RFE Builder

    AI-assisted response drafting

Outcomes

  • Faster processing

    Reduce repetitive manual work.

  • Higher accuracy

    Support consistent, rule-driven workflows.

  • Better collaboration

    Connect stakeholders across the case lifecycle.

  • Scalable platform

    Create a foundation that can support new workflows and capabilities.

Complexity → Clarity

  1. 01People

    Understand users and their roles.

  2. 02Information

    Map data, documents, and dependencies.

  3. 03Workflows

    Design connected end-to-end journeys.

  4. 04Systems

    Connect platforms, actors, and rules.

  5. 05Interface

    Turn the underlying structure into clear experiences.

  6. 06Refine

    Iterate using research, data, and feedback.

03 / Selected work

A selection of enterprise products I've shaped across immigration, HR, travel, healthcare and enterprise software — from product ecosystems and workflows to research and design systems.

Client confidentiality

Some projects are presented anonymously due to client confidentiality and contractual restrictions. Product names, logos and identifying information have been removed or anonymized while preserving the UX, product and design challenges.

Different industries. Complex challenges.
A consistent approach — people, clarity and impact.

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Featured project

Immigration Product Ecosystem

Designing an end-to-end immigration platform connecting cases, forms, petitions, documents and AI-assisted workflows.

  • Product Strategy
  • Systems Thinking
  • AI
  • Enterprise UX
Immigration case management dashboard

✦ AI - assisted legal workflows

Helps users review complex immigration work and identify next steps.

Enterprise product

Enterprise HR Ecosystem

Designing a connected HR experience across the employee lifecycle.

  • UX Research
  • Information Architecture
  • Enterprise UX
TalentPipelineScheduling& TimePlanning &ForecastingWorkforceManagementTalentAcquisitionDiversity& InclusionPeople &CultureCommunication& CommunityEnterpriseHR EcosystemLearning&DevelopmentEmployeeExperienceCompensation& Benefits

Product experience

Travel & Hospitality Platform

Designing digital experiences for travel and hospitality.

  • Product Design
  • Mobile & Web
  • Travel & Hospitality
Travel platform refunds screen
Enterprise application

Forms Designer

Ground-up UX redesign of a management platform used across multiple organizational roles, from employees to senior leadership.

  • Research
  • Workflow
Forms Designer on a laptop
Product experience

I-9

Simplifying a complex healthcare workflow for doctors and patients.

  • Healthcare
  • Mobile App
I-9 compliance dashboard on a laptop
Mobile application

Covid App

Designing a multi-device news experience with Arabic language support and innovative interactions.

  • Mobile UX
  • Localization
Covid information app on laptop and phone

I design products, systems and experiences that make complex work easier to understand, navigate and act on.

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Productivity paradigm

I don't just design products.I help teams design better.

By analyzing how internal product engineering, legal, compliance, and user operations interface, we can structure collaborative pipelines that deliver cleaner codebases and safer user compliance states.

AI hypothesis

AI should help people move forward, not look backward.

AI shouldn't exist to guess legal decisions. It should organize data loops, ingest complex documentation, automatically parse massive government compliance packets, and leave the strategy to humans.

06 // Radha's Labs

The neatest parts of tech are already easily handled. The real systems breakthroughs are found in dense legal processes, regulatory tracking, and the massive organizational pipelines where thousands of professionals, documents, and rulesets intersect every single day.

Working through workflow sketches at a desk

Have a highly complex system, product ecosystem, or legal workflow challenge that needs visual architecture? Reach out today.