AI Ayurvedic Nutrition App
My HCI paper, published in 2022 and presented at Human-Computer Interaction International.
Read the paper on Springer- What it built toward
Owning a problem from the first sketch to the code that ships.
Owning a problem from the first sketch to the code that ships.
- Promoted twice in 2026: Product Designer 2 in March, Senior Product Designer & UX Engineer in May.
- I mentor three designers. With Jerimy Brown I led our move to AI-assisted design: sessions for 20+ designers, and an MCP server that gives our AI tools the design system.
- I work across the Developer Portal, spatial analytics, location intelligence APIs, and the Data Integrity Suite.
Off the clockPrecisely “Kousik takes ownership, moves ideas forward, and stays focused on delivering something useful that we can learn from.”
Fix the pattern once, and every product gets better.
- I audited the portal’s locked, example-only demos and designed one tryout pattern every API could use.
- I prototyped the riskiest interaction against live APIs before engineering touched it.
- Validating an API went from eight setup steps to three, without leaving the portal.
With my manager, Jerimy BrownPrecisely - What it built toward
Knowing what a complex product has to keep when the screen shrinks.
Knowing what a complex product has to keep when the screen shrinks.
- Research cut the brief down to six things people do on a phone: check, ask, filter, act, get alerted, and share.
- Under design lead Tarun Bhandari I owned the native flows, voice states, watchlists, filters, alerts, and the handoff spec the build ran on.
- The app won Best in Mobile Cloud Solution at the 2023–24 Cloud Awards.
ThoughtSpot design teamThoughtSpot - What it built toward
Theory from school, practice from the real world, and the habit of doing both at once.
Theory from school, practice from the real world, and the habit of doing both at once.
- I studied for a Bachelor of Design in User Experience and Interaction Design at UPES from 2019 to 2023 and finished with a 9.5 CGPA, while doing four internships and freelancing on the side. I made the Dean’s List in my second year.
- The medals recognized my grades and the work I did in the real world.
UPES Excellence Awards 2021UPES “He conducted comprehensive research, analyzed data, and ideated 12 concepts.”
Going deep on research, then wide on concepts, before choosing one.
- For my graduation project I reviewed 141 sources, interviewed 18 people, opened 24 directions, shortlisted 12, and tested a working prototype.
- The prototype scored 82.1 on the System Usability Scale from 8 people, and the team concept won an iF Design Award in 2024.
Philips Healthcare teamPhilips Experience Design “Kousik has shown excellent design process skills in solving business problems.”
A process that holds customer trust and business reality together.
- The finance experience differed across five countries, and knowledge sat in silos. I researched it down to 29 values any finance UX should respect.
- I built a two-day workshop that got product, design, and tech to pick the five that mattered per flow, cutting alignment from up to a month down to two days.
OLX Autos teamOLX Autos - What it built toward
Real briefs, real deadlines, and the confidence that came with them.
Real briefs, real deadlines, and the confidence that came with them.
- For the UN World Food Programme I designed 13 offline-first mobile flows for vehicles delivering aid in Ukraine, over six months.
- For Noodle Brush in London I designed seven iterations of a sports-betting site in 22 working days.
- For Perk Hero in Vancouver I designed the product and investor site, which brought in 37+ new clients.
- For Devasthana, a public-services digitization concept, I led the MVP design from discovery to delivery and shaped the pitch taken to government investors.
“Kousik is good at design execution and documenting his ideas.”
Execution that stays clear from the design file to the build.
- In the Airtel Thanks app, 30% of users were being sent to the call center. I designed live chat and feedback inside the app.
- Call-center transfers from the app fell below 5%, and chat satisfaction rose 20 points.
Airtel teamAirtel “He has a strong understanding of product design and platform thinking.”
Treating every screen as part of a bigger product system.
- Students wanted live time with the best teachers, and that doesn’t scale. I designed an interactive class replay that brings the live classroom back.
- I learned to turn dense product constraints into clear, reusable patterns.
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