Vishal Thakur · Product Designer
Started as an engineer and found my way into design. I love building products that work beautifully, feel intuitive, and get little details right.
Currently, bringing my ideas to life with AI
Selected work
Few products I've helped make better.
Tata Play · Mobile
A subscription that builds around your choices.
Pick your languages and see your plan price update as you go.
Tata Play SMART · 5 platforms
Free trial. Across every screen.
Designed the five-day free trial experience across mobile, TV, web and tablet, bringing three offer states together in two weeks.
Tata Play SMART · Design system
One design system for the big screen.
Audited 320 Smart TV screens and shaped a unified system with one focus model and 84 components, most already in use.
Dell · Santorini
Making backup schedules easier to manage.
Turned a long list of backup jobs into a calendar view that makes schedules easier to scan, understand and manage.
Dell · PPDM
Reports that work the way admins do.
Created flexible reporting templates that admins can customise and export as CSV or PDF. Reached 42% adoption by month three.
IKEA · Capgemini Invent
Bringing the IKEA experience to developers.
Reimagined how global teams discover APIs and patterns using IKEA's Skapa design system, contributing new patterns back to the library.
Things I’ve built
Designed it. Shipped it.
I enjoy turning random ideas into real things. AI has made that process faster and a lot more fun.
iOS app
Revisit
Save cafés, restaurants and hidden spots while travelling. Turn your saved places into city guides and share them with others.
Web app
Ken Follett Archive
An interactive archive of characters from 12 novels I've read, imagined as collectible figurines.
Making AI useful for design.
Small tools that help designers explore, write, analyse and create.
The small things
Details most people never notice, but feel.
Small details from everyday products that make good experiences feel even better.
iOS · Liquid Glass
Glass that behaves like glass
It bends and blurs what's behind it, just like real glass. Making every layer feel physical, not painted on.
macOS · Motion
When the volume slider hits its limit
At full volume the bar can’t grow any more, so the speaker gives a tiny bump. It says “that’s the max” without a word.
iOS · Widget
A clock that knows it’s night
Each clock face adapts to the local time of its city. A glance tells you whether it's daytime or time to let someone sleep.
Off the clock
Quiet in a room. Loud on a cricket day.
Reading
Jackdaws, Ken Follett
Playing
Table tennis. Just started, still losing
Watching
Cricket, always
Training
Almost every day
Trying
New healthy food, one product at a time
The one percent
There is always a 1% chance, and sometimes that chance is good enough. But, what matters is what you think about that 1%? Are you willing to give absolutely everything that you have to make that 1 into 10, and then grow that 10 into 30 and eventually something magical might come out of it.
Virat Kohli
He has been an inspiration for over 18 years. This is more than a quote I admire. It's a mindset I have tried to carry into everything I do.
I’m a bit quiet in person. Much easier over email.
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