Best UX/UI Practices for Product Development Teams
The best UX/UI practices for product development teams to align PMs, designers, and engineers, improve user outcomes, and ship high-impact features faster.
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UX & Retention
Product & technology advisor
Simplify what is
slowing you down.
I find what is slow, confusing, repetitive or unnecessarily complex—then help you choose and implement a practical fix.
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Start with the problem
You do not need to diagnose it first. Bring me the part of your website, workflow, product or technology setup that is not working well.
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Improve performance, technical health, conversion clarity, hosting, migrations and maintenance planning.
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Find repetitive work, remove unnecessary steps and automate the parts where automation is genuinely useful.
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Examine onboarding, activation, retention and product decisions to find where people get stuck or lose interest.
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Get an independent view on tools, architecture, migrations and difficult technology choices before committing.
Explore this workTools I built
Built to remove repeated work
Practical tools for tasks that should take less time, fewer steps or less manual effort.
PlaceScale Pro
2026A commercial WordPress plugin for generating location-focused pages from reusable templates and dynamic content.
#WordPress Plugin#Automation#AI#Local SEO
WP-Optimize
Acquired2008–2016The WordPress database optimization plugin I created, grew to millions of downloads, and led for eight years before its acquisition by Team Updraft.
#WordPress#Open Source#Product Growth#Acquisition
Rabin.blog
2026A live technical journal with WordPress as the complete publishing backend and a modified Astro frontend.
#Astro#WordPress#Headless CMS#Publishing
Powered Prompts
2026A privacy-focused Chrome extension for saving, organizing, and inserting reusable prompts into AI chat tools.
#Chrome Extension#AI Workflow#Privacy#Productivity
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ExperienceFrom software delivery
From software delivery
to product decisions.
I have developed software professionally since 1997 and led product work since 2010. My experience spans SaaS, WordPress, e-commerce, payments, media and automation.
Today I work independently across business decisions and technical implementation, with a practical approach to WordPress, automation and AI.
More about RuhaniExperience at a glance.
Since 1997
Professional software
Since 2010
Product leadership
Since 2006
WordPress consulting
90+
Enterprises & SMEs
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WordPress, modern web tools, automation and AI are means to an end. The choice depends on what needs to work better.
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What is getting in the way?
Tell me what feels slow, confusing, repetitive or difficult to manage. You do not need to know which service you need.
What is getting in the way?
Tell me what feels slow, confusing, repetitive or difficult to manage. You do not need to know which service you need.