Kishan Vagale
Kishan Vagale

I design and build systems
to save time, effort & money.

I’m Kishan Vagale, a design leader and builder in Bangalore, India. Over 11+ years I’ve worked at Ola and redBus, and I currently lead a six-person design team at Scaler.

I take ideas all the way to working products, lately with , , and . Away from work, I’m a dad to one daughter. I recently traveled to , and I love nerding out on the .

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Scaler CRMProduct
OwnerAnd design lead

Scaler CRMLive

₹25 crore in savings over five years

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Builder.And owner.

Debug SimulatorLive

4.5/5 across 624 learner reviews

A checkout bug the learner still has to answer.

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DesignerFor class experience

Drona Cue CardsLive

Class ratings from 4.57 to 4.88

Cue cards stay open while the class is running.

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Scaler

Oct 2022–Present

  • Principal Product DesignerJan 2024–Present
  • Lead Product DesignerOct 2022–Jan 2024

  • UXR platformWIP

    An internal research platform bringing study planning, research calls, and evidence-led insights into one place. Currently in internal testing.

    300+ research calls · 7 research activities · 6 active users

  • Certificate ToolLive

    A self-serve tool for generating certificates and verifying them later, bringing both parts of the certificate workflow together.

    38,000 unique certificates · ~10-second generation · 20+ support users

  • Referral EngineLive

    Referral journeys connecting learners and sales teams, covering how referrals enter and move through the process.

    Referral share of sales: 18% → 32% over six months · CAC ~₹1 lakh → ~₹25,000 per referral sale · ~₹1.575 crore monthly saving run rate

  • Storyblok platformLive

    A publishing platform built around reusable landing pages and AI-assisted content workflows.

    Page launches: ~4 weeks → 3 days · 200+ components and sections · 15+ pages

redBus

Apr 2018–Oct 2022

  • Senior UX DesignerJan–Oct 2022
  • UX DesignerApr 2020–Dec 2021
  • Senior Visual DesignerApr 2018–Mar 2020

  • PrimoLive

    Brand identity and product experiences for Primo, now running on 20,000+ buses across India, spanning onboarding and the nudges within the booking journey.

  • TicketSimplyLive

    A mobile companion for bus operators, bringing operator workflows into a format they can use on the go.

    ~60% of core web functionality brought to mobile

  • Bus Hire / rYdeSunset

    Booking experiences for hiring an entire vehicle, covering the journey from exploring options to making a booking.

  • redBus LATAM

    Booking experiences for redBus in Latin America, adapting the product journey for its regional audiences.

    Reported ~10% relative lift from search results to bus details

  • Creative automation

    Promotional design workflows connecting Figma and Google Sheets to simplify repeat creative production.

    ~3 design hours saved each day

Olavia TaxiForSure

May 2015–Apr 2018

  • Graphic / Visual Designer
  • TaxiForSure → OlaMay 2015–Apr 2018

  • Campaign design

    Campaign visuals adapted across languages and formats, keeping the creative consistent across different placements.

  • Creative automation

    Workflows combining Adobe tools and spreadsheets to take repetitive steps out of creative production.

Building with AI

Building, one commit at a time.

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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Today I stumbled upon this video of Jacob Collier orchestrating an entire orchestra with no rehearsal, no sheet music and no idea what they were about to play. And that’s when it hit me. This is exactly what

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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

everyone is talking about how smooth the iPhone Duo's fold interaction is. for me this was the highlight of the event, the gracefulness of handing over a legacy. 🫡

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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Reviewed and merged a PR from a developer colleague on one of my codebases. Last year around the same time it was the opposite, I was raising my first PR. Things are moving so fast that lines between roles

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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Off late I have been noticing brighter logos in multiple apps, I was curious on why. Muhammad Usama figured out why and also built a tool. 🔥🔥

Before and after of an HDR-encoded logo that appears brighter than the page
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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Happy to announce that my family's transport has been completely carbon neutral for the last two years. 🌱 Three EVs. 44,000 km in total. All charged by the solar panels on our roof. Ather Energy · Kia India

Video still from a post about two years of carbon-neutral family transport
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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Was part of a 2 hour online workshop today by Practice Shift community being built out of Dubai by Akhil Joy, Saumya Agarwal, HFI CUA™ George Geo & Team. 🔥 The session was on creating those high visual,

Video still from the Practice Shift workshop landing-page session
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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Before I raise a PR, I now hang a 🍋🌶️ Nimbu Mirchi 🌶️🍋 on the diff. 😅 Karthik Mahadevan built this for Mac. It drops a fully interactive charm on your desktop that you can change with charms from around

Lucky Dangle desktop charm hanging a nimbu mirchi on a pull request
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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Wispr Flow is great. Until I am not at my laptop. Most of my better thoughts show up on a walk, driving, or standing in the kitchen. Phone is in the pocket. By the time I unlock it, open notes app, switch to

Project Mnemosyne ring from antimatter, reserved for early access
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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Last week I posted that my Figma plugin had ~6.2K users. Then I opened the feedback on Tally - cm was rendering at 96 DPI when lower than 72 was selected. Fixed. - TIFF export in CMYK and RGB. Asked for.

Figma plugin v8 community listing with updated screenshots
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Principal Product Designer @ Scaler | Previously at redBus, Ola, TaxiForSure I Design, Build & Ship to production, 45k users | Design Systems | Agentic Workflows, Automations, Evals | Figma | Pen.dev | Claude Code

Peak product and design thinking. 🔥🔥

Quoted video still on peak product and design thinking
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