Owning a problem from the first sketch to the code that ships.
- Promoted twice in 2026: to product designer 2 in March, and to 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.
A recent photo of me “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 Brown 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 team 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.
Graduation with my parents “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 team “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 team 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 team “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.
A handmade Diwali gift
Kousik Dutta Senior Product Design Engineer
Bengaluru, India Five years in UX, 3+ full-time
Design. Build. Prove.
Give me your messiest enterprise brief. I’ll find the real user need, design it, ship it.
- 8to3 API test steps Precisely. 8 to 3 steps to test an API at Precisely: case study
- 3× monthly use ThoughtSpot. 3 times team-reported monthly use at ThoughtSpot: case study
- iF 2024 Design Award Philips team. iF 2024 Design Award with the Philips team: case study
Work
In their words
“He has a real aptitude for new technologies, especially designing with AI. He doesn’t wait to be told.”
Jerimy BrownDirector of UX and direct manager · Precisely“His ability to empathise with users and translate their insights into intuitive and effective designs was impressive.”
Shubham Som GuptaSenior UX Designer · Philips“Kousik is very proactive and very quick to grasp complex concepts.”
Keerti ChowdhryMentor · OLX AutosAbout
I design the system and direct AI agents to build it. I decide what it does, how it fails and what ships, and I review and test every change before it goes live.
- NowSenior product designer & UX engineer Precisely
- 2024–26Product designer Precisely
- 2023–24Product designer ThoughtSpot
- 2023Product design intern Philips Experience Design
- 2022–23Product design intern OLX Autos
- 2021–23Freelance product designer UN WFP Perk Hero Noodle Brush
- 2022Product design intern Airtel
- 2021–22Product design intern Vedantu
The full story
Mine: two UPES gold medals (2023), CII Young Designer Awards winner (Service Design, 2022), D’source SDGs Design Challenge merit award (2022).With my teams: iF Design Award 2024, Cloud Awards 2023–24.
Career. Promoted into building.
What the journey built towardTurning complex product systems into clear, buildable decisions.