Achuta Anekal

UX Designer • Product Designer • User Researcher • Plano, TX, US

UX Strategy

Product Development

Product Design

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Product Designer | Electronics Engineering Graduate

My design philosophy is rooted in first principles thinking and staying inherently centrist. My experience at Grab has taught me the the art of keeping user research front and center of decision-making. Building FinTech products for AngelOne and slice helped me understand how to delicately balance and craft engaging content, intuitive interfaces, with robust safety measures. And my time at Palantir has sharpened my ability to dissect and tackle some of the most complex problems through the lens of design. I’m resourceful when I need to move fast and break things. And I’m rigorous when I need to solve deep and hard problems. I am always seeking the most challenging problems.

Projects

Oasis

This project won awards at Stanford's Treehacks Oasis is a groundbreaking platform that leverages AI agents to streamline the parsing, indexing, and analysis of sustainability data from official government and corporate ESG reports. It provides an interface for companies to assess their records and converse with an AI agent that has access to their sustainability data. The agent helps them benchmark their practices against practices of similar companies and narrow down ways that they can improve through conversation. See More

CheckAI

Redesigned the Bengaluru Police violation reporting app with game design and a state-of-the-art neural net. This project was presented at the IEEE ICAECC conference and published in IEEEXplore.See More

Research on Private Blockchains

Presented a paper on performances of consensus algorithms in Private Blockchain networks at the Blockchain Congress in Italy. It is published in Springer Proceedings.See More

Work History

Product Designer (Industry Project)

SalesforceSep 2023 - Present • 1 yr 2 mosImproving the publisher experience on Salesforce Trailhead to foster more community interaction and collaboration.

Graduate Research Assistant

Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and EngineeringAug 2022 - Present • 2 yrs 3 mosWorking with local Indiana companies to solve problems using human-centered design

Product Designer

Palantir TechnologiesMay 2023 - Aug 2023 • 4 mosSole designer for the Authentication and User Provisioning team.

Product Designer

ObviousMay 2021 - Aug 2022 • 1 yr 4 mosslice: First design hire for New Initiatives teams. Drove visual conceptualizations and ran design activities to design a web3 application to present and store your decentralized identity domains. Grab: Designed a 0-to-1 self serve Ads platform which led to a 100% YoY revenue growth. Worked closely with product to help define scope and MVP versions of the platform. Owned generative research responsibilities and shipping core workflows of ads creation and ads management.

UX Designer

Thence Aug 2020 - Apr 2021 • 9 mosAngel One: Owned designs for the web stock trading platform. Shipped user-facing features, like Portfolio management and stock details, stewarding us as we expanded from 1M users to 6M+ users. ZillSkill: Built a kids learning platform and designed unique features like ‘Sequels’, a story based representation to help kids discover their inner curiosity and natural capabilities.

Advisory Service Designer

NSRCEL at Indian Instititute of Management, BangaloreJun 2019 - Sep 2021 • 2 yrs 4 mosWorked with founders and professors at the incubator at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, to redesign Incubation Program and Women’s Startup Program with service design principles.

Education

PES University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering2016 - 2020

Indiana University Bloomington

Masters of Science, Human Computer InteractionAug 2022 - Apr 2024

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