Raghvendra

Studio

A designed environment, not a second résumé.

Work is systems. Home is also systems: animals, a balcony garden, a bike, and a shelf that keeps changing what I notice. This is the room around the work. Faridabad mornings start outside when they can — water the balcony, a short ride, then a reading block before the first call. The rest of the week is remote product work; the garden and the animals are the operating system that is not on a laptop.

Corner standing desk with dual screens, boom microphone, yellow open shelves, and a motorcycle helmet.

“This household also includes my parents. They are not a gallery. They are why the house is a house.”

— on who else lives here
Corner standing desk with dual screens, boom microphone, yellow open shelves, and a motorcycle helmet.
Pegboard and whiteboard on the studio wall, with a ukulele, tools, and handwritten goals.

Desk. Wall. The pegboard holds tools and a ukulele; the whiteboard holds goals that are allowed to be wrong for a while.

Library

Working Volumes — an interactive shelf of seven tools for making.

Things I keep alive

A dog, a cat, fish, birds, and a small garden on the balcony and the outside strip. Care is a daily cadence, not a weekend project. It is the same muscle as product work: notice, adjust, do not abandon the living system.

Bingo, a tricolour beagle puppy in mid-stride.

Bingo

The one who decides when the day actually starts.

Ocean, a white long-haired cat on the tiled floor.

Ocean

Independent operations. Supervises the desk.

Fish

A quiet tank. Water quality is a product spec.

Birds

Sound in the apartment when the city is loud.

Garden

Balcony herbs and greens. A few flowering pots that have to survive Faridabad summers. Outside-strip plants that get the leftover attention after the ride.

Cadence, not trophies

I cycle because it clears the queue in my head before I design anything. Sport is the same idea at a different intensity: a body that is not only sitting in Figma. No Strava theatre here — just a bike, a route, and the habit of going out.

After a ride, standing next to a Giant Talon mountain bike with helmet in hand.
Portrait in a blue cycling jersey after a ride.
Weekly cycling targets complete: 50.48 km.
Ride of 25.35 km in 1 hour 13 minutes.
Weekly cycling complete: 32.71 km in 1 hour 38 minutes.

A dozen kilometres before a call, most weeks. The map matters less than the habit of leaving the house.

Objects

  • 01

    Notebook and pens

    Decisions get written before they get slides. The sketchbook is the first system, not a prop.

  • 02

    Desk machines

    One primary machine for making. Secondary screens only when the work actually needs them.

  • 03

    Bike

    The commute that is not a commute. Kit stays simple so leaving the house is not a project.

  • 04

    Watering can

    The most honest tool in the house. If it is dry, the system failed.

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