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Hi, I'm Hakesh.

I make digital things and spend an unreasonable amount of time moving rectangles around.

Product Designer

Professional overthinker of 4px

What I actually do

Somewhere between pixels and problems.

I’m a Product Designer interested in the messy middle between a problem and a product. I like figuring out how things work, where they break, and what can be removed, rearranged, or redesigned to make them easier to understand.

Basically: I ask “why?” a lot.

I like complicated things.

I just don't like them feeling complicated.

Complex products are rarely made simple by removing complexity altogether. Someone still has to understand the messy parts. For me, good design is about doing that work behind the scenes and giving people an experience that feels clear, natural, and intentional.

I like taking something messy, understanding the system underneath it, and slowly turning it into something that makes sense.

The goal is for the user to think, “Oh, that was easy.”

Meanwhile, I know exactly how much Figma suffering went into it.

So... how did this become my job?

In 2022, I wrote my college entrance exam before I had even finished 12th.

At that point, I had absolutely no idea what career I wanted.

I just knew I had to pick something.

Somewhere along the way, someone asked me what design was. Then came the harder question:

“How would you explain design to a five-year-old?”

I came up with a ridiculous example.

Apparently, it was a good one.

That was probably the first time I thought,
“Wait... I might actually be good at this.”

Then I found out designers could make a decent living.

I got selected, finished my 12th,and joined Symbiosis, where I started studying User Experience Design.

Four years later, after a fairly ridiculous rollercoaster of projects, internships, deadlines, Figma files, and questionable design decisions...

Here I am.

Still designing. Still learning. Still occasionally wondering how that one random decision turned into a career.

And then I started getting paid to move rectangles around.

June 2024 · Sattva Harvest
My first proper design job. A couple of months of figuring out what working in design was actually like.

January 2025 · Fineday
Another couple of months, another team, and a little more confidence that I might actually know what I'm doing.

April 2025 · Mr Dots Solutions / Go Shoppie
A couple more months of real-world design before the big one.

June 2025 · Foster Health
I got the offer letter while eating biryani.

What started as an internship turned into more than a year of working on a real product team.
And then came the salary hikes. And hikes. And hikes.