SHAN HANNADIGE
Designing systems that think.
Selected Works
Supercharging America's carrier fleet with a mobile-first CX
Truckstop Go2023
Harmonizing AI + HITL workflows for industrial product matching
Grainger2025
Maintaining clinical device safety with HCD for Generative AI use cases
ThermoFisher Scientific2024
Building function with form for social e-commerce marketplaces
Basic.Space2021
Laboratory
Darkroom
35mm film scans, converted, cleaned and reviewed in a pipeline of my own, then published.
Submarine MCP
Personal finance over iMessage: an app and MCP server built for the 2025 HackMIT×Poke MCP Hackathon.
Pawsome Health
AI in veterinary diagnosis, prototyped in Figma for the Cognizant GenAI Hackathon 2024.
Director Delta
A GenAI critic for UX and UI designs: honest, blunt feedback first, recommendations after.
Writing
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
8 min read August 4, 2026The Backrooms, and Parallels to Our "Almost-Things"
4 min read July 28, 2026There's hope in hard truths
10 min read January 24, 2025The Wild West of the United States AI regulation landscape
6 min read November 29, 2024The exploitative cost of GPTs
5 min read June 6, 2024Betting Big on Generative UI
Medium ↗About
I'm a design engineer based in Chicago.
Technology keeps changing under everyone's feet. I still think design thinking is the discipline that turns that churn into things people can use. I let AI take the repetitive parts of design work so my time goes to the decisions that matter.
I build for clients near and far, big and small. That means getting into their problem alongside them and designing the answer together. I also mentor designers, pushing them past aesthetics toward product strategy and systems thinking.