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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.

My Work and Impact

The organizations I've worked with each brought a different set of demands. ECE at U of T were 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 to raise awareness and spend less time on administration. At Fix It In Post, the projects sat outside conventional film production processes entirely: niche work that required stepping outside the industry's default ways and building solutions that hadn't been done before.

Organizations I've worked at

Lead Solutions Designer · Copywriting Creatives

Web Production Designer · University of Toronto's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Production Team Lead · Fix It In Post Studios

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.

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.

Project Impact & Reception

  • 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.

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

-- Teams Message sent by Admin

Other Work

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

At Copywriting Creatives

Improving the UX of Support Black Charities's Website & Directory.

Ongoing

At Copywriting Creatives

Maximizing visibility & reducing admin workload for South Shore Youth Organization's website.

Ongoing

At ECE at U of T

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

Nov 2024 - Mar 2025

At Fix It In Post

Delivered a Web-based Pitchdeck for Pre-Production capital raising.

Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

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.

Unified 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.

Meet a different kind of Consulting

In 2021, I co-founded JKR Business Consultancy for problems where I could stay from diagnosis through to delivery, working until it is solved. Outside of JKR, I've taken on independent projects where the same principle applies: own the problem, build the solution, stay until it works.

Featured Work

I've worked with various businesses from 2021 including an industrial manufacturer & industry supplier, a K-12 SaaS E-learning company, a healthcare group, and more. My former employer FIIP studios invited me back to provide them with solutions regarding genAI adoption. This involved a live pilot towards the end of the project, where I applied the framework I'd developed to help the studio develop genAI-assisted services that actually worked.

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 billable service.

Project Impact & Reception

  • Business Impact:
    30–40% revenue growth from a newly billable GenAI-assisted workflow.

  • Business Impact:
    ~2 weeks cut from production timelines.

  • Business Impact:
    Reduced client revision loops and eliminated AI anxiety across the team.

“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, Fix It In Post Studios (before the live Pilot)

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.