About

One problem solved a day is enough.

I’m Tejus R Meda — a UX designer in Newcastle upon Tyne. I work at Ultramed, where the software I design sits between a patient and their surgery. That’s a lot of weight for small decisions to carry, and it’s the part of the job I like most.

How I got here

I came to design from a lecture hall

For seven years I taught structural engineering at an architecture college in Bangalore. I liked the teaching. What I couldn’t stand was the paperwork — attendance registers, mark sheets, the same form typed out three separate times.

So I built them a system. Nothing glamorous: admissions, attendance, marks, all in one place. The software wasn’t what stayed with me. Watching the office’s whole week change shape because of it was. That’s when it landed: I wanted to shape how software feels to the person stuck using it at 4pm on a Friday.

I moved to Newcastle in 2023 for an MSc in Human–Computer Interaction. It gave that instinct a method — research, testing, the discipline to check whether something actually helped, or just looked like it did. I’ve been at Ultramed since.

Technology earns its place by taking something off someone’s plate.

In healthcare that stops being abstract quickly. Every flow I design is somebody’s pre-op assessment, and there’s a person on the other end of it with a surgery date. If what I ship today makes one of those days easier, that was a good day’s work.

Experience

Where I’ve worked

Outside work

The rest of it

Tejus visiting the Cube Houses in Rotterdam Rotterdam · Cube Houses

My wife and I travel every chance we get — ten countries so far. We’re the sort who’d rather find where people actually eat than tick off a landmark. I’ll take an experience over an object almost every time. Tech’s the exception: I have opinions about monitors, keyboards and cameras that nobody asked for.

Tejus at NatterCon 2025 img/about/natter-con.jpg
NatterCon 2025
Tejus as a student ambassador at Newcastle University img/about/hobby-1.jpg
Student Ambassador — Newcastle University
Group selfie with the HCI cohort img/about/hobby-2.jpg
The HCI cohort
LeafLink demo, 2024 img/about/hobby-3.jpg
Leaflink Demo 2024
Tejus at the Memorisely design dinner, 2024 img/about/hobby-4.jpg
Memorisely Design dinner 2024
Tejus at TechNExt 2024 img/about/hobby-5.jpg
TechNExt (2024)

I read mostly non-fiction, the self-improvement end of the shelf, and I watch a lot of films. Both do the same thing for me — borrowing how someone else thinks, for a couple of hours.

On the shelf

What I keep coming back to

How I work

What actually happens between the ask and the ship

I’m a designer who learned to work with AI rather than around it. Concretely, this is how a feature goes from a vague request to something living in the product:

  1. Scope the ask

    Pull it apart until I know what’s really being solved and for whom. Paper and pencil, most of the time.

  2. Try variations in Claude

    I generate a few directions and click through them. It’s cheaper to throw away a working prototype than to defend a Figma file.

  3. Take it to the clinicians

    Our subject matter experts are the closest thing to end users I have in the building. They poke holes, I take notes, and I go back to step two.

  4. Draw it properly in Figma

    Once the shape settles it becomes real components, built against our design system rather than next to it.

  5. Build it for real

    Claude Code and VS Code, into the actual product, so I can see how it behaves alongside everything else.

  6. Branch, PR, revise

    Developers tell me what won’t hold up. There’s almost always one more round after that, and it’s usually the one that matters.

Think
Paper & pencilClaudeNotion
Design
FigmaFigJam
Build
Claude CodeVS CodeCursor
Ship
GitHubBranches & PRsCode review
Working together

What I’m like on a team

Still here?

Then we should probably talk. I’m always up for a conversation about healthcare, design, or where to eat in a city you’ve just landed in.

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