AI Ayurvedic Nutrition App
My HCI paper, published in 2022 and presented at Human-Computer Interaction International.
“Kousik asks the right questions, understands the system, and makes thoughtful UX decisions rather than simply following requirements.”
Decisions that connect product direction, interaction quality, and implementation.
- I design across the Developer Portal, spatial analytics, location intelligence APIs, and catalog and governance areas.
- I mentor junior designers and help a 20+ person design team use reusable, AI-assisted workflows.
- I contribute interaction patterns and front-end details that teams can reuse across products, beyond a single handoff.
Outside the Lycée FrançaisPrecisely “Kousik takes ownership, moves ideas forward, and stays focused on delivering something useful that we can learn from.”
A systems practice grounded in reusable patterns and working prototypes.
- I reviewed fragmented API demos and designed one evaluation pattern for five location APIs.
- I prototyped the riskiest interaction with live APIs before handing it to engineering.
- I reduced the designed journey from eight setup steps to three steps inside the portal.
- What it built toward
Judgment about what a complex product must preserve when the context changes.
Judgment about what a complex product must preserve when the context changes.
- My research focused the brief on four mobile needs: check, ask, filter, and act.
- Under design lead Tarun Bhandari, I owned the mobile flows, states, design tokens, and implementation details.
- I brought watchlists, voice states, filters, alerts, and sharing together in one native system.
ThoughtSpot design teamThoughtSpot - What it built toward
A research-led interaction practice with a high bar for craft.
A research-led interaction practice with a high bar for craft.
- I completed a B.Des in Interaction Design while building my product design practice through four internships.
- The medals recognized both my academic performance and the work I developed during those placements.
UPES Excellence Awards 2021UPES “He has a strong understanding of product design and platform thinking.”
Platform thinking that treats each screen as part of a larger product system.
- I learned to translate dense product constraints into clear, reusable interaction patterns.
- Working in a fast-moving education product taught me to design for both immediate comprehension and platform scale.
“Kousik has shown excellent design process skills in solving business problems.”
A design process that holds customer trust and commercial constraints together.
- I worked through automotive marketplace journeys shaped by operational complexity and high-consideration decisions.
- The work strengthened my ability to turn business problems into testable product directions.
OLX Autos teamOLX Autos “Kousik is good at design execution and documenting his ideas.”
Execution that remains legible from the design file through implementation.
- I designed support journeys where service complexity had to become understandable and immediately actionable.
- The role sharpened both my interaction execution and the documentation needed to carry decisions into build.
Airtel teamAirtel “He conducted comprehensive research, analyzed data, and ideated 12 concepts.”
Research depth paired with enough concept breadth to find the right intervention.
- For my graduation project, I reviewed 141 sources, interviewed 18 people, compared concepts, and tested a working prototype.
- I used that evidence to make clinical learning and routine-building experiences feel useful rather than overwhelming.
Philips Healthcare teamPhilips Experience Design
