Working notebook · Ahmedabad · 2026

Open to senior and lead roles, in-house or studio · open to relocating

Shoghi
Bagul

Designer by craft, engineer by training. I work on products where the interface has to translate real operations: energy, healthcare, payments, a fuel station.

Read the notebook ↓

Design Lead, TculesM.Des, NID Ahmedabad6+ years in UX and productAhmedabad, Indiadot grid · 24px

Four entries

One open to read
three behind the password
All four open to you

1 of 4

skip to more work ↓
nozzleopenclose N1N1 testN2N2 test not every shift! Sketch
The Stock screen of the fuel station app: tanks and compartments, with readings, deliveries and test records. Sample data. Stock screen · sample data
Frame 01
01The one I got wrong first

I assumed what the data looked like. The owner corrected me.

  • A testing row for every nozzle, in every shift Testing only happens when it’s done, the litres vary, and sometimes the fuel goes back into a tank.

Testing became its own record, entered only when it happens and taken off the meter reading before anything counts as a sale. That changed the data model, not just a screen.

From an Excel Workbook to a Fuel Station App · Operations · 2026
Product design, spec, build and user manual

Read the full entry → open, no password Tested against a real month of the station’s data before anyone used it.
the offer meals 2nd! menu Sketch
This week’s menu Schematic, not a screenshot
Frame 02
02The question

Where does someone actually decide to subscribe?

  • “Price won’t matter much” Research said it did. People weighed it against cooking or ordering in.
  • A checkout shaped like a sign-up form Recordings showed people leaving at phone verification.

Real meals and the weekly menu moved to second place. Checkout became an order: configure, see the cost, give delivery details, pay.

A Meal Subscription Journey · UAE · B2C · 2025
UX / Product Design Lead · about nine months · Client client name

Read the full entry → Landing page, checkout and app all shipped. Conversion wasn’t measured.
ask anything… not a chatbot in the corner the twin Sketch
Forecast solar for the next 48 hours How much the AI decides Defer a car chargerAdjust a setpointStart the generatorExport to the grid ACTSACTSASKSASKS Schematic, not a screenshot
Frame 03
03The question

How much should the AI decide?

  • A dashboard with a chatbot beside it It met the brief. But the AI was a feature, not the product.
  • One AI on/off switch Deferring a car charger is trivial. Starting a generator isn’t.

The first screen is a question. Each kind of action gets its own limit: inside it the AI acts and logs it, outside it a person approves.

An AI Operating System for Building Energy · Energy · AI · 2025
Product & UX lead · the only person on it, as PM and designer · Client client name

Read the full entry → Parts reached production; the rest is concept. There’s a live 3D twin inside.
scratchtemplatecopilot one way in Sketch
translate a document Document translation Document translation Add to workflow Schematic, not a screenshot
Frame 04
04The question

Why weren’t sign-ups becoming workflows?

  • Three starting points, each in its own interface Only 6% of users managed to create a workflow.
  • A picker that covered the canvas To read about a feature, you had to add it, then remove it.

One search for every way in, with the description beside the list. What you need to decide sits where you decide.

One Search Bar for a Developer AI Platform · Developer tools · AI · 2024–25
Lead product designer · Client client name

Read the full entry → A pilot. The client rebuilt the builder around it, one part at a time.

More work

05

A Self-Serve Platform for Songwriter Royalties

In a product about money, every screen says where it is, why, and what to do next.

B2B SaaS · 2024 · case study
06

AI-Assisted Market Research

Research workflows from survey creation to insight, with AI in the loop.

AI SaaS · 2023–24
07

A Marketplace for Caregivers

Research-led journey design for a UK healthcare marketplace.

Healthcare · 2022–23

The full entries are private. Ask for the password.

Email me from your work address with the role you’re hiring for, and I’ll reply with the password to the four private case studies. It also lifts the marker off the client names.

Request access

How I work

Full experience →
Habit 1

I learn the system before I draw.

On the building-energy product, I traced every screen back to the API it needed before agreeing the first phase with the developers.

Habit 2

I lead it, then I sit in it.

Same project: standups with front-end and back-end through handoff, and the reason for each decision written into the specs.

Habit 3

I make AI earn trust.

Show the work, and leave the decision with the person: a limit for each kind of action, a visible log and an easy way back.

  1. Design Lead · TculesEnd-to-end product design across AI-native SaaS and complex workflow products.
  2. Senior Designer · TculesDelivery across B2B, B2C and B2B2C products, and 0→1 founder builds.
  3. UX/UI Designer · TculesFlows across healthcare, events, marketing automation and fintech.
  4. Co-founder & Principal Designer · dot zero threeA multidisciplinary practice spanning UX, branding and spatial design.

Writing

All 9 pieces →
Torn out for people in a hurry

The one-minute version

Who
Shoghi Bagul. Design Lead at Tcules, M.Des from NID Ahmedabad, engineer by training. Based in Ahmedabad, open to relocating.
Shipped
  • Meal subscription · landing page, checkout and app, all live
  • Building energy AI · product and MVP defined, parts in production
  • Developer AI search · a pilot the client rebuilt their builder around
  • Fuel station app · designed and built, in alpha with the owner
  • Songwriter royalties · handed off to development
Looking for
Senior and lead roles, in-house or studio.
Case studies
The fuel station app is open to read. The other four are behind one password: email me from your work address with the role you’re hiring for.
Request access Email me