2024 — Present
Senior UX Designer
Honeywell
Designing cloud and operational systems for the people who run complex buildings every day.
About
I design clear systems for difficult problems.
I’m Mani Teja, a senior product designer working across enterprise software, healthcare and complex operational systems. I make dense products easier to understand, navigate and trust.
- Role
- Senior UX Designer, Honeywell
- Based in
- Bengaluru, India
- Open to
- Senior product design roles
The thread
Curiosity became a way of working.
I grew up on the banks of the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, learning through making, taking things apart and asking how they could work better. That instinct eventually took me to the National Institute of Design.
Since then, I’ve moved between industrial design, critical-care products and enterprise platforms. At Studio Carbon, I co-founded and led a multidisciplinary design practice. At Honeywell, I now work on building and operational systems used by people who cannot afford ambiguity.
The medium changes, but the method stays consistent: understand the system, spend time with the people inside it and make the next decision clearer.
Experience
A career built across products and systems.
2018 — 2024
Co-founder & Lead Designer
Studio Carbon
Built the practice and led product work across healthcare, inclusive design and early-stage ventures.
2018 — 2019
Product Designer
Studio ABD
Worked across consumer and industrial product briefs, from research through prototyping.
2017
Associate Designer
Somfy India
Designed products and interactions for home and building automation.
Principles
What guides the work.
Start with structure
If the system is unclear, the interface will fail. I map the logic before solving the screen.
Go to the field
Good decisions come from real constraints, not assumptions. I prefer learning in context over polishing in isolation.
Design for the edge case
The hardest workflows are often the most important. I design for the unsupported, the stressed and the time-poor user.
Education
National Institute of Design
Master of Design, Product Design
2016 — 2019
JNTU Kakinada
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
2007 — 2011
Selected recognition
Forbes 30 Under 30
Studio Carbon
2024
The James Dyson Award
National Runner-up
2020
Lexus Design Award
Finalist
2019
Away from the screen
Still curious, usually in motion.
Outside design, I reset with a Rubik’s Cube, a run or a new language. I follow cricket and Formula 1, and I’ll always make time for a trip back to the Godavari.