Vishnu Anantha
Product Designer · 10+ Years
I design platforms that scale—turning fragmented tools into unified experiences and building systems that work across products, brands, and user complexity levels.
Experience
UltiMaker
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2023-Present
New York, NY · Utrecht, NL (Remote)
Designing the core B2B platform for 3D printing workflows—from solo makers to multi-site enterprise operations.
Platform rebuild
Led Digital Factory from strategy through launch, unifying 4 fragmented tools into a single browser-based platform. Designed for progressive complexity: quick first-run success that deepens as users grow
MAU +38% YoY (142.6K → 196.7K)
0→1 web product
Built Cura Cloud from zero to production, bringing the desktop slicing engine to browser. End-to-end UX redesign focused on resilience: error handling, edge cases, recovery flows, accessibility.
Monthly print jobs +20.5x (3.0K → 61.4K)
Multi-brand design system
Architected tokens and components across three products (Digital Factory, Cura Cloud, Thingiverse) with mode-aware embedding and Figma-to-Storybook alignment.
MakerBot
Director of Product Design
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2022-2023
New York, NY
Led cross-discipline team (Industrial Design + UX) for 3D printers and software deployed in 500+ schools and professional sites. Shipped CloudPrint—a classroom/fleet management tool whose patterns informed today's platform architecture.
Hardware Design Lead
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2018-2022
Designed embedded touchscreen UI/UX across 2 printer platforms / 6 printers (Method, Sketch). Led industrial design from concept to production for award-winning hardware. Established user research practice to inform product decisions.
Industrial Designer
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2012-2018
inch, inc.
Product Design Engineer
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2011-2012
New York, NY
Expertise
Core Craft
Platform Patterns
Workspace architecture • Permissions & roles • Progressive complexity • Onboarding & adoption • Design tokens
Tools
Figma + FigJam • Framer • Dovetail • Jira • Notion • Storybook • Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects
Background: SolidWorks, Keyshot
Cursor • Claude, Gemini • Figma Make • Goose • Notion AI — used for rapid prototyping, front-end development, and research synthesis
Awards
Red Dot 2019
IF Design Award 2017
Red Dot 2015
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Product Development
2010-2011
Penn State University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
2006-2010