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Karthik Jambunathan
7+ Years Designing Experiences Across Industries
I prefer Karthik, Jack, or JK

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Meet a different kind of Design

Most designers hand over mockups and move on. I build what I design; from systems-level diagnosis through to front-end implementation, shipped against real objectives.

Helping Organizations Move Forward

My Work and Impact

The organizations I've worked with in this space each brought a fundamentally different set of demands. Academic institutions like ECE at U of T are not selling a product, they are selling a future, which means their digital presence needs to attract prospective students, answer the right questions, and move them toward inquiry. Nonprofits working with Copywriting Creatives needed something different: websites and tools that made it easier for causes to raise awareness and for their teams to spend less time on administration and more time on the work that matters. At Fix It In Post, the projects sat outside conventional production processes entirely: niche, non-standard work that required stepping outside the industry's default ways of doing things and building solutions that hadn't been done before.

Enhancing User Engagement & improving User Experience of Support Black Charities's (SBC) Website & Directory Listing Tool.

Maximizing visibility & reducing administrative workload for the South Shore Youth Organization's (SSYO) digital presence.

Unifying the Toronto Nanofabrication Centre with ECE at U of T by moving from a standalone website into the ECE's environment.

Delivered a Pitchdeck for use by a Film Director as a web experience for Pre-Production capital raising.

Disclaimer: The Copywriting Creatives projects are to be published on the Copywriting Creatives website. Other Case Study pages are active.

Featured Work

The University of Toronto's ECE Department needed someone who they could trust to help rebuild the full digital lifecycle. For the first 7 months, I had worked across the public website and intranet, handling content updates and WordPress/CMS management, building enough institutional knowledge to be trusted with something larger. In December 2024, that trust translated into a direct mandate: rebuild multiple core pages, deliver new page builds, and give one of Canada's most respected engineering departments a functional and aesthetic facelift.

Mockup image of ECE department's Homepage.

UX Research to Development • Dec 2024 - Mar 2025

End-to-End Digital Production to Drive Student Recruitment for ECE at U of T

Students were ignoring the homepage rather than navigating through it; it was a missed recruitment opportunity. this included content updates and a full homepage redesign, shipped alongside multiple internal pages designed to convert the traffic it would receive.

  • Business Impact: Transformed for student recruitment by directing high-intent traffic to key pages.
  • User Impact: Reduced time-to-value through a clearer, student-focused content hierarchy.

Internal reception to the new homepage design.

“[Department Chair] signed off on the [new] design [for the Homepage]. She's a fan!”

-- Teams Message sent by Admin

Meet a different kind of Consulting

Most consultants hand over a deck and disappear. I stay from the first diagnosis through to the final delivery, working on the problem until it is solved.

Consulting and Entrepreneurship

In 2021, I co-founded JKR Business Consultancy to take on problems that needed both a diagnosis and a delivery. The work has spanned industries, but what has stayed consistent is the depth each context required.

In healthcare, the problem was never the service itself; it was understanding how patients chose a clinic, how they became aware of closer locations, and how post-visit outreach brought them back. In industrial manufacturing, it was designing a sales workflow, then ensuring the financial documentation behind it was clean enough to hold up for accounting, tax compliance, and payment. In fintech SaaS, it meant building a testing tool, which required understanding the software it was testing and the customer trying to implement it. In K–12 e-learning, it was meeting WCAG requirements and raising the UI quality standard ahead of a funding round.

Outside of JKR, I've taken on independent projects where the same principle applies: own the problem, build the solution, stay until it works.

Audited WCAG violations across core app screens and produced technical documentation to bring a non-compliant product to conformance ahead of a funding round.

Delivered an AI-enabled pitch deck for adapting Netflix's "Club de Cuervos" for Indian Audiences.

Designed a hybrid sales-to-production workflow with email automation and invoice generation, cutting order processing by 48 hours and unlocking $24K+ USD in weekly recurring revenue.

Designed a decision-based patient routing strategy that increased satellite location patient volume by 150%, reducing congestion at the flagship clinic.

Led UX and design systems for a test automation SaaS, delivering a full component repository that reduced design-to-dev discrepancies by 20%.

Featured Work

Mockup image of GenAI Service Blueprint.

Service Design • Digital Transformation • Creative Operations • 2022 - 2023

Digital Transformation: Building AI Into the Blueprint

Generative AI arrived in the creative industry with most studios left reacting to its disruption. Fix It In Post Studios chose to build services centered around generative AI, and I designed the responsible adoption framework that made that possible, validated through a pilot that turned an experimental workflow into a structured, billable service.

  • 30–40% revenue growth from a newly billable GenAI-assisted workflow.
  • ~2 weeks cut from production timelines.
  • Reduced client revision loops and eliminated AI anxiety across the team.

Internal Reception to the Live Pilot's Workflow

“I really hope we can use it [Adobe's newly introduced GenAI tool] efficiently and succeed in delivering [the PreViz to the Client].”

-- Studio Owners, during the live Pilot, Fix It In Post Studios

What People Have to Say

Karthik's ability to grasp and align client requirements with solutions are unmatched and makes him a rare leader in design and implementation work! He came in as a knight in shining armor making the impossible, possible.

— Kyle Thomas
Founder & Creative Director
Copywriting Creatives

Design Thinking

Explore my design thinking through my articles on LinkedIn.

Ready to listen, diagnose, and deliver.

Whether it is straightforward or complex; do not hesitate to reach out.