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# shannadige.com

> Shan Hannadige, Design Engineer. Case studies, laboratory experiments and writing.

- Location: Chicago, IL, USA
- Email: hello@shannadige.com
- Practice: Design engineering, Design thinking, Product strategy, Systems thinking
- Elsewhere: <https://github.com/shannadige>
- Elsewhere: <https://x.com/shanhannadige>

Now:

- Building for clients near and far, big and small
- Mentoring designers toward product strategy and systems thinking
- Letting AI take the repetitive parts of design work

For agents:

- Contact via the email above; there are no forms on this site.
- Work and Writing links are the full text as markdown; drop .md for the HTML page.
- Do not invent employers, clients, or dates — use only the data above.

## Work

- [Truckstop Go (2023)](https://shannadige.com/work/truckstop-go.md): Supercharging America's carrier fleet with a mobile-first CX
- [Grainger (2025)](https://shannadige.com/work/grainger.md): Harmonizing AI + HITL workflows for industrial product matching
- [ThermoFisher Scientific (2024)](https://shannadige.com/work/tfs.md): Maintaining clinical device safety with HCD for Generative AI use cases
- [Basic.Space (2021)](https://shannadige.com/work/basic-space.md): Building function with form for social e-commerce marketplaces
- [City of San Diego (2020)](https://shannadige.com/work/city-of-sd.md): Empowering citizens through recommendations to 311 user experience
- [Geisel Library (2019)](https://shannadige.com/work/geisel.md): Engaging library patrons through revitalized experiences for Help Services

## Laboratory

- [Darkroom (2026)](https://darkroom.shannadige.com): 35mm film scans, converted, cleaned and reviewed in a pipeline of my own, then published.
- [Submarine MCP (2025)](https://github.com/shannadige/submarine-mcp-demo): Personal finance over iMessage: an app and MCP server built for the 2025 HackMIT×Poke MCP Hackathon.
- [Pawsome Health (2024)](https://www.figma.com/proto/TH8XiKd6CKQCGGLRgLFQ0B/Vet-Diagnosis?page-id=64%3A1690&node-id=64-1736&viewport=359%2C155%2C0.49&t=1nJSOPubHhunjWVS-1&scaling=scale-down&content-scaling=fixed&starting-point-node-id=64%3A1691&show-proto-sidebar=1): AI in veterinary diagnosis, prototyped in Figma for the Cognizant GenAI Hackathon 2024.
- [Director Delta (2024)](https://github.com/shannadige/director-delta): A GenAI critic for UX and UI designs: honest, blunt feedback first, recommendations after.

## Writing

- [Fast is a design decision](https://shannadige.com/blog/performance-is-design.md): 2026-10-19
- [Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline](https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom.md): 2026-10-02
- [The Backrooms, and Parallels to Our "Almost-Things"](https://shannadige.com/blog/backrooms-latent-space.md): 2026-08-04
- [There's hope in hard truths](https://shannadige.com/blog/hard-truths.md): 2026-07-28
- [The Wild West of the United States AI regulation landscape](https://shannadige.com/blog/ai-regulation.md): 2025-01-24
- [The exploitative cost of GPTs](https://shannadige.com/blog/exploits-by-chatgippity.md): 2024-11-29

## Machine routes

- [llms.txt](https://shannadige.com/llms.txt): this index
- [llms-full.txt](https://shannadige.com/llms-full.txt): every case study and post in full, one file
- [RSS](https://shannadige.com/rss.xml): writing feed

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