Sumit Chandorkar

Hello

I design complex products
that feel simple to use.

I'm Sumit, a product designer. I've worked on telecom and consumer apps at scale, and for the last four years mostly in fintech, from helping first-time investors feel confident to making dense financial data easy to read.

Now
Design Lead at Flyra
Before
Dream11, 4 years
Experience
Nearly 8 years
Based in
Mumbai, open to relocation

Selected work

Work that started out complicated, and how it got simple.

  1. 1M+
    downloads in its first year, without paid marketing

    Dream Money at Dream11, 2024 to 2026

    Turning daily earners into daily savers
  2. Current employer, walkthrough on request

    Flyra, 2026

    Bringing clarity to a data-dense financial ledger

How I work

How I think through a problem, in the order I actually work.

  1. 01

    Start with the people

    Before I open Figma, I sit with PMs, engineers and stakeholders to pin down who the user really is, what success means for the business, and what we can't change: tech, compliance and deadlines. Hard limits come out on day one, not in week six.

  2. 02

    Find where it breaks

    I take apart how competitors solve the problem and read support tickets and app reviews, where users say plainly what's wrong. When that isn't enough, I go deeper: at Dream11, mixed-methods research showed users doubted winner results were genuine.

  3. 03

    Settle debates with prototypes

    When requirements get messy, I send sharp questions back to the PM and put lo-fi wireframes and prototypes in front of the team. It's easier to agree on something everyone can click than on a paragraph in a PRD.

  4. 04

    Close every edge case

    I flag edge cases from the first conversation, and this is where I close them: empty, loading and error states, and the user who does it backwards. Then the small details, so engineers get specs they can build and the product feels effortless.

Experience

7 years 11 months in design, from client work at agencies to owning products end to end.

  1. Flyra8 mos
    1. Design LeadMar 2026 to now

    Only product designer across the consumer app, the business dashboard and the internal Ops Console, directing work with an external design partner.

  2. Dream114 yrs 2 mos
    1. Product Designer IIIJul 2024 to Mar 2026
    2. Product Designer IIJul 2022 to Jul 2024
    3. Product Designer IFeb 2022 to Jul 2022

    Took Dream Money from 0 to 1, from UPI bill payments to an investing platform. Redesigned the winner list and profile tab on the core Dream11 app. Started on the SaaS feature-flag platform.

  3. Lollypop Design Studio1 yr 11 mos
    1. Associate Senior UI DesignerAug 2021 to Feb 2022
    2. UI DesignerApr 2020 to Aug 2021

    Worked on Vodafone Idea's rebrand to Vi across web and app, then built the Figma foundations that kept it consistent.

  4. Dreamscape Media1 yr 4 mos
    1. UI/UX DesignerDec 2018 to Mar 2020

    Designed for client projects, from updates to an OTT streaming platform to a pre-flight app that lets private aircraft owners check their plane before take-off.

About

Sumit Chandorkar

I'm happiest when a complicated product stops feeling complicated, and nobody can quite say why.

I got here through front-end code first, then agency work on Vi's rebrand, four years at Dream11, and now leading design at Flyra.

Before shipping anything, I ask one question: how would I feel using this?

Outside work, I write about design on Instagram as Finishing Touch.