About
Most designers stop
at the mockup.
I keep going.
I'm Abhinav. I lead design at Altrr Software Services in Pune. For the last 5.6 years I've been designing products people actually use to run their businesses. Restaurants, real estate, healthcare. The kind of software where a bad design means a kitchen backs up or a realtor loses a lead.
On the side, I'm a student again. Doing my Postgraduate Diploma in Interaction Design at IDC, IIT Bombay. Mostly to get better at the research side of the work.
I write the code too. Not as a party trick. Just because the best way to know if a design works is to build it. I prototype in React, ship frontends in Next.js, and live in Claude Code and Cursor most days. This portfolio? Designed every pixel, wrote every line.
Most of what I work on now is AI products. Chat interfaces, voice flows, AI-powered data tools. The model is rarely the hard part. The hard part is figuring out how a person should interact with something that thinks, and when the AI should stay quiet.
Pune, 2026
Journey
Where I've been
June 2025 — Present
Altrr Software Services
UI/UX Lead
·Pune, India
Redesigned Trythat.ai end-to-end. Threw out the old form-heavy interface and built a chat-first experience where users just ask for what they want. Also designed Brantford, a realtor platform where you list a property by talking to your phone for 60 seconds instead of filling out a form. Leading a small design team and shipping across web and mobile.
2 products from scratch, both shipping on web and mobile.
Jan 2021 — May 2025
Shekru Labs India Pvt. Ltd
UI/UX Lead & UI/UX Developer
·Pune, India
This is where I learned to do both. Designed and built products across healthcare, restaurants, fitness, and government, often as the only designer. MenuMitra was the big one: a restaurant OS serving 2500+ restaurants. I designed 6 different interfaces for 6 different users, then wrote the frontend in React myself.
5+ production products, designed and coded.
Apr 2018 — Dec 2020
Cognopi Solutions
Data Analyst
·Pune, India
Spent two years pulling insights out of messy CRM data with SQL. Not glamorous, but it gave me a solid sense for what matters in data versus what's noise. That background shows up in every dashboard and data-heavy interface I design now.
Data thinking before design thinking.
Oct 2015 — Jan 2016
CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd
Software Engineer
·New Delhi, India
My first job out of college. Built web apps for government services in PHP and JavaScript. Basic stuff, but it meant I understood code before I ever opened a design tool.
Where it all started. Code first, design later.
Education
Where I learned the craft
2026 — Ongoing·Currently studying
IIT Bombay
IDC School of Design
Postgraduate Diploma·Interaction Design (PGD IxD)·Mumbai, India
Pursuing the Postgraduate Diploma in Interaction Design at IDC. First on-campus module completed: Design of Interactive Products. Twelve credits of contextual inquiry, affinity mapping, persona work, prototyping, and usability evaluation. Up next: Data Visualisation, Human Factors, and Research Methods.
Contextual InquiryAffinity MappingPersona & Scenario DesignInteraction PatternsPrototypingUsability Evaluation
2010 — 2015·First Class
MIT Academy of Engineering
University of Pune
Bachelor of Engineering·Computer Engineering·Pune, India
Studied Computer Engineering long before I ever opened a design tool. Graduated First Class. Taught me to think in systems, debug honestly, and read code before reading docs. Still where my instincts come from.
Data StructuresAlgorithmsOperating SystemsDatabases
Certifications
Credentials & learning
Human-Computer Interaction: The Foundation of UX Design
Interaction Design Foundation
Foundations of UX Design
Google / Coursera
Interaction Design
DesignLab Learning Inc.
UX Research and Strategy
DesignLab Learning Inc.
Toolkit
What I work with
Design
Product DesignDesign SystemsInteraction Design
User ResearchPrototypingUsability TestingVisual DesignInformation ArchitectureMotion Design
Tools
FigmaFramerProtoPie
Adobe CCPrincipleMazeMiroNotionSpline
Code
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptReact Native
JavaScriptTailwind CSSGSAPFramer MotionLenisHTML & CSSNode.jsViteGit
AI
Claude CodeCursorv0
ChatGPTMidjourneyGemini
Strategy
Product StrategyDesign ThinkingWorkshop FacilitationStakeholder ManagementAgile / ScrumData-Informed DesignOKR Alignment