About

One instinct wearing three hats.

A coder's logic, a designer's eye, a photographer's instinct.

The same move runs through all three: find the one thing that matters, then remove everything else.

Noida / remote · open to senior design-leadership roles

Portrait of Abhisek Bagaria. — Abhisek BagariaCraft to VP

Abhisek brings a rare perspective to product design, combining the technical insight of a coder, the creative intuition of a designer, and the visual storytelling skills of a photographer. He applies fundamentals like the rule of thirds, leading lines and negative space, and is just as deliberate about light and shadow, crafting interfaces and presentations with a cinematic quality that makes them intuitive and visually compelling.

Byron BentonAI/ML & Cybersecurity Product Leader · Client, 2025

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I came to design through things that had to run.

Before formal design training, I was already shipping full-stack. Robotics and robo-soccer gave me a bias for constraints, feedback loops and systems that either work or do not.

The design instinct did not replace the engineering one. It sharpened it. I still build the products myself under Studio Kunj, designed, built and shipped end to end, on my own.

Education

M.Des, Industrial DesignUPES · University Silver Medalist2014–16
B.Tech, Computer Science & EngineeringTechno India, Salt Lake2009–13

The engineering degree came first. The design training came after the building habit was already there, and that order matters.

Interfaces are not pictures of intent. They are working systems that hold up under real use.

Apart from being a great UX leader, he is also a techie, which sets him apart. A rockstar problem solver.

Divyanshu KumarHead of Product, BT Group · 99acres, 2021

BolomacOS, on-device dictation

Speak and it types where your cursor is. A private utility for turning thought into text without the ceremony.

Open Bolo

SereneWeb, before you hit send

An assistant for the five seconds before you hit send. A small product around a very specific moment.

Open Serene

SkyGliderAndroid game, Google Play

The thrill of the near miss, tuned into a shipped mobile game under Studio Kunj.

Open Google Play

The same edit, applied at the scale of millions.

I grew from the craft to Lead, Principal, AVP at 99acres and VP at Naukri over about nine years. The work changed scale, but the judgment stayed recognisable: leave only what people need, then make the organisation brave enough to ship it.

Experience

Founder, designer and builderStudio KunjSince 2024
VP, UI/UX DesignNaukri.com2022–24
Lead to AVP, Design99acres2019–22
UX to Senior UX DesignerInfo Edge India2016–19
UX Design InternShiksha.com · degree project2016

Full history on LinkedIn

At scale

+290%

Desktop search conversion, 0.6% to 2.36%.

+250%

Project detail page conversion.

+4,500

Qualified daily leads, mobile, at 50% rollout.

60–65%

Shipping time cut by the design system, concepting 2x faster.

“Leaders are measured by the success of their people.” Culture is the operating system.

Designers other teams had written off came onto mine and, after real mentoring, turned into the highest-impact people on it. A few have gone on to senior design roles at larger product companies.

How I lead, in full

Leadership recognition

Transformational Leadership Recognition, Info Edge, 2024

For raising creative culture and quality without slowing delivery. The awards read like a thread because the work was the same thread: raise quality, keep teams moving, improve the product.

Info Edge Merit Award, cross-business-unit impact and margin-safe growth2022
Proptech Mobile App of the Year, Realty+ Proptech Awards, 99acres' personalised app2019
Platinum Team Award, Info Edge Merit Awards2019
99acres Excellence Award, Info Edge India2018