Hi, I'm Pallav. I make products clear.

I'm a UX builder with eight years of shipping research-led products, from early-stage startups to platforms used by millions. I care about the moment a confusing thing quietly becomes obvious.

8+

years designing and building products

40+

products and features shipped

200+

usability sessions run

How I got here

I started in graphic design, drawn to the way a good layout could make people feel calm. Then I watched users struggle with a checkout I had made beautiful, and I learned that polish is not the same as clarity.

Since then I've worked across fintech, healthcare, logistics and education, always close to the people using the product. I run the research, shape the flows, design the interface and often build the prototype myself, with AI and code as part of my everyday toolkit.

The work I'm proudest of is rarely the loudest: the onboarding that stopped support tickets, the dashboard a dispatcher can read in two seconds, the design system that lets a team move without asking permission.

At a glance

Based in
Bengaluru, India. Remote friendly.
Focus
Product design, UX research, prototyping
Currently
Senior UX Designer at Akash
Experience
8 years across 5 product teams
Education
B.Des, National Institute of Design
Languages
English, Hindi, Kannada

Working with me

Who you'd be working with

A designer who builds, and a teammate who makes the work easier for everyone around it.

Say hello

The short version: calm in messy projects, clear in handoff, and honest about what we don't know yet.

Teammates I'd work with again

Where I start

With the problem, not the pixels.

Before any screen, I talk to the people who use the product and write down what is really getting in their way. The design follows from that.

How I collaborate

I design in the open.

Rough work goes up early, so engineers and product can shape it while it is still cheap to change.

After handoff

I stay until it ships.

I answer questions fast during the build and check the live version against the design before calling it done.

Off the clock

Beats, panels and pages: the places my best ideas start.

Music

I compose electronic music as Avasa.

Emotional, cinematic and textured: worlds built from synths, space and story. New work lands on SoundCloud first.

Press play to start the playlist

  • Electronic
  • Cinematic
  • Ambient

Playlist

This is Avasa

Electronic, cinematic, late-night

Books

Design, product and fiction.

Always one on the desk. Right now: The Design of Everyday Things.

The Design of Everyday Things coverDon NormanThe Design of Everyday ThingsReading
Don't Make Me Think coverSteve KrugDon't Make Me Think
Sprint coverJake KnappSprint
Thinking, Fast and Slow coverDaniel KahnemanThinking, Fast and Slow
The Mom Test coverRob FitzpatrickThe Mom Test
Dune coverFrank HerbertDune
Neuromancer coverWilliam GibsonNeuromancer
A Pattern Language coverChristopher AlexanderA Pattern Language