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 Staff / Principal Product Designer
Practice 11+ yrs · AI & design systems
Based Collegeville, PA · Remote
Selected work Eight case studies

About

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Rahul Desai — Staff / Principal Product Designer
Rahul Desai Staff / Principal Product Designer

11+ years designing enterprise software for Life Sciences, Pharma, and Finance. I ship the products, then build the design system that keeps them honest.

At Trinity Life Sciences I joined as the first product designer and grew UX to 3 senior designers plus 2 contractors across an 8+ product portfolio. I design software that is accessible, inclusive, and kind to the people who use it all day.

11+
Years of experience
35+
AI-specific patterns
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
  • Research & usability testing

Works

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Clinical Study
Master

847K+studies · one conversational interface
A chat-led master data platform reported to cut study research from days to hours — every AI answer traceable to its source.
Conversational AIClinical dataNDA
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CSM Assistant chat in Clinical Study Master — asked “Show Phase 3 studies in Oncology”, it answers 312 studies with a three-point breakdown and a Results card of linked MDM study IDs.
02

RealWorldEDGE

Months → weeksself-serve analytics
Cohorts over claims, EHR, and lab data — built without custom programming, from a 4M+ term medical library.
Analytics platformReal-world evidenceNDA
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Cohort Insights in RealWorldEDGE — patient counts by diagnosis, treatment and procedure event, an age-group bar chart and a gender donut of 347,544 patients, over the Attribute Definer page.
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Trinity Design
System

100+components · ~510 weekly npm downloads
Token-based system with a dedicated AI module for chat, reasoning, and citations. Storybook is canon.
Design systemCompany-wide
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Semantic Color Tokens in the Trinity Storybook — Brand swatches (navy, purple, indigo, coral) and Text swatches from primary to warning, each labelled with its token name and hex value.
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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 peer comparison — asked “How is this account performing compared to similar peers?”, it answers with three KPI tiles and two ranked bar charts highlighting Hudson Meridian.
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AIVA — The Original
Trust Layer

2019where my AI-trust patterns began
AI loan-document automation — confidence thresholds, one-gesture correction, and an audit trail feeding corrections back into the model.
AI trust layerMortgage lending
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AIVA Data Extract — bank-statement fields colour-coded by confidence; the amber Financial Institution field is linked by lines to its source text, with a one-tap pick list of alternatives.
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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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Prospect Pipeline in Advisor Lab — five stage chevrons from Diagnostic to Agreement Received with counts and weightings, above a plan table with Active, Delayed, Won and Closed statuses.
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 Investment Management screen — an overview donut with $63,558,930 total market value, Top 5 by AUM and Drafts panels, above UMA model cards with risk levels and allocations.
08

Launch
Accelerator

75+launch projects a year · 1,400+ platform users
Global drug-launch orchestration — markets, milestones, and modality-first plan templates in one object.
Launch orchestrationPharma commercial
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Markets tab in Launch Accelerator — the Velodex launch plan header with risk counts and milestones, tiles for 12 countries in 3 waves, and the Wave 1 table for France, Germany and Italy.
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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

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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, and the same patterns run through every product that followed.

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

Joined as Trinity’s first product designer; grew the UX function to 3 senior designers plus 2 contractors.

The Lab

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AI Prototyping Kit

Lets PMs and leadership generate on-brand, system-true prototypes with Replit, Claude, and Perplexity.

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