Available for new work · 2026 Currently UX Manager · Trinity Life Sciences

Rahul Desai.

I design AI that shows its work.
In pharma and finance, it has to.

Discipline Product Designer
Practice 11+ yrs · Founding designer ×4
Based Collegeville, PA · Remote
Selected work Eight case studies

About

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Rahul Desai — Product Designer
Rahul Desai Product Designer

11+ years designing enterprise software for Life Sciences, Pharma, and Finance. Founding designer at four companies — I stand up the UX function, ship the products, then build the design system that keeps them honest.

Currently leading UX across Trinity Life Sciences’ 8+ product portfolio. I design software that is accessible, inclusive, and kind to the people who use it all day.

11+
Years of experience
×4
Founding designer
8+
Products in portfolio
100+
Design system components

Career

2024 → Now UX Manager Trinity Life Sciences
2021 → 2024 Sr. Product Designer Trinity Life Sciences
2019 → 2021 Lead UX Designer PCS Retirement
2019 UX Designer Heavy Water → Black Knight
2015 → 2019 UX Designer Anexinet
2009 → 2014 Graphic Designer Scogo Media (RF|Binder)
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Expertise

AI Product Design

  • Conversational UX & chat patterns
  • Human-in-the-loop flows
  • Citation & explainability surfaces
  • Confidence visualization
  • Audit trail design

Design Systems

  • Token architecture
  • React + Storybook components
  • Figma library syncing
  • Governance & adoption
  • AI module patterns

Regulated Enterprise

  • HIPAA / GxP / FINRA domains
  • Data-dense B2B workflows
  • Complex CRUD & analytics
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
  • Research & usability testing

Works

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01

Clinical Study
Master

847K+studies · one conversational interface
A chat-led master data platform — every AI answer traceable to its source, cited inline.
Conversational AIClinical dataNDA
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02

RealWorldEDGE

Months → weeksself-serve analytics
Cohorts over claims, EHR, and lab data — built with zero code, from a 4M+ term medical library.
Analytics platformReal-world evidenceNDA
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03

Trinity Design
System

100+components · every product team
Token-based system with a dedicated AI module for chat, reasoning, and citations. Storybook is canon.
Design systemCompany-wide
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Trinity Design System in Storybook — semantic colour tokens beside the full token and component tree
04

KAM Field
Advisor

×12data modules · zero manual switching
An AI copilot for pharma account managers. Mention an account and the context follows.
AI copilotPharma commercialNDA
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KAM Field Advisor — an account question answered with a reasoning chain and structured data modules in the conversation
05

AIVA — The Original
Trust Layer

15 → 2–3min per loan review
2019. AI loan-document automation — confidence surfaced, corrections one tap, audit trail feeding the model.
AI trust layerMortgage lending
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AIVA document classification queue — loan pages grouped by type with per-page confidence indicators
06

Advisor Lab™

7 → 1legacy systems consolidated
A self-service platform for retirement-plan advisors — prospecting, onboarding, and a 360° book of business.
Advisor platformRetirement
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Advisor Lab home screen on tablet — prospects, wins, and client book of business in one view
07

MM&T & Client
Portal · SEI

3 moambiguity → buildable blueprint
Design sprints, proto-personas, and a complete page-structure map for SEI’s greenfield platform.
EnvisioningInvestment management
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SEI Model Management & Trading — strategy detail with asset allocation and performance panels
08

Launch
Accelerator

12 → 1markets · one launch plan
Global drug-launch orchestration — markets, milestones, and modality-first plan templates in one object.
Launch orchestrationPharma commercial
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A Launch Accelerator plan — risk counts and milestone track above workstreams and tasks
09

FP&A Dashboard

11-page executive financial platform · rule-based alert engine · contextual Ask-AI

10

TGI Portal

Dual-mode portal: search-led discovery for researchers, table-driven governance for admins

11

HR Bot

Embeddable AI assistant · 76 KB gzipped, LLM-agnostic · personality as strategy

The
Throughline

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The vocabulary changed — copilots, agents, RAG, citations. The design problems didn’t. I’ve been designing AI trust layers since 2019, before the vocabulary existed.

2019 AIVA · Compile Loan The origin — confidence + correction + audit trail
2025 Clinical Study Master Chat-first + source attribution on every result
2025 KAM Field Advisor Conversation as the app + query-routed context
2025 FP&A · Ask-AI Contextual prompts from card data, opt-in
2026 — Current Trinity DS · AI Module Reusable patterns for the whole portfolio

Capabilities

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Product Design

End-to-end UX/UI — IA, interaction design, wireframes to high-fidelity.

Research & Strategy

Interviews, usability testing, journey mapping, discovery.

Leadership

Scaled the design practice from one designer to a department.

The Lab

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AI Prototyping Kit

Replit + Perplexity integrations for on-brand, system-true prototypes.

Prompt Library & Guide

Maintained prompt library so "on-brand" survives AI generation.

Storybook ⇄ Figma Pipeline

Storybook as single source of truth with synced Figma library.

AI Component Module

Chat, reasoning panels, citation patterns — as system components.

Planning your next flagship product?

I work with teams building enterprise AI — where trust, data density, and compliance shape every pixel.

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Available for new work · 2026
rahuld83@gmail.com (609) 790-8424 LinkedIn ↗ Resume