Rakesh Isaac

Designing the surface
where humans meet
AI agents.

I lead a product design team at ServiceNow working at the intersection of enterprise software, governance, and AI agents. I think of design less as the appearance of products and more as the contract between the people who use them and the systems that increasingly act on their behalf.

  • Manager, Product Design at ServiceNow
  • GRC · TPRM · Enterprise Architecture
  • Indie practice — faith & community apps

Six projects across enterprise risk, AI-assisted workflows, design systems for AI agents, voice interfaces, and personal practice. Each one is a working argument about where this discipline is going.

Most of what is interesting about
AI-native design is not the agent.
It is what has to be true around it.

i.

Provenance is a design problem

When AI drafts a control, edits a policy, or rewrites an assessment, the trail of who-did-what becomes the most valuable artifact in the system. Designing that trail — at the right level of granularity, with the right gestures of trust — is most of the work.

ii.

Design systems are now contracts for AI agents

A design system is no longer a website for humans. It is a contract that AI agents follow when generating UI. That changes what belongs in it, how it is written, and which rules earn their place — usually fewer than you would expect.

Where AI-native design is the work, not a side feature. Say hello →