Head of Product & Design · Times of India
Building products for 200M+ readers. Tinkering with AI at night.
I'm Rohit. I lead Product and Design at Times of India, India's largest digital news publisher. On the side I build little things, read a lot, and write here about what actually happens inside a product org at scale.
14 years in product. 50+ books in three years. Three side projects and counting.
Shipping Planetia for iPad and listening to Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince (full cast edition).
Blogs
Posts on product, AI, leadership, and the occasional book review.
Redesigning rohitgarrg.com with AI
A weekend redesign using Claude Design, Claude.ai, and Claude Code. Notes on what each tool did well, where the chain broke, and what manual review still needs to catch.
Project Hail Mary: A Book Review
A review of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary — the science, the friendship, and why the sixteen-hour audiobook is better than the movie.
How I Actually Use Claude
Most people use Claude like a search engine with better grammar. That's about 20% of what it can do. Here's the system I've settled into after months of building — planning, adversarial review, phased execution — and the habits that make it work.
Projects
Side projects, experiments, and things I'm tinkering with.
Planetia
An interactive 3D solar system for curious kids and the parents who can't answer all their space questions. Six modes to explore, compare, quiz, customize, and build their own.
Office Survivors
A satirical pixel-art browser game about surviving corporate life. Deliver tasks, dodge chaos agents, and climb from intern to CEO.
Solar System Explorer
An interactive 3D solar system for the browser. Tap planets, discover fun facts, fly a spacecraft between worlds, and explore all 22 celestial bodies.