Vishal Thakur · Product Designer
I’m Vishal, a product designer at HFI. I design products for Tata Play and Dell, and I build some of my own. I started as an engineer, so I care about how things are made as much as how they look.
Designing Tata Play’s mobile apps
Shipped Revisit on the App Store
Using AI to explore, not to decide
Selected work
Products people use every day.
Tata Play · Mobile
Subscription, language by language
Pick your languages and watch the price build as you go. ₹199 for the first, +₹99 for each extra.
Tata Play SMART · 5 platforms
Five days free, on every screen
Sole designer for the free trial across mobile, TV, web and tablet. One offer, three states, built in two weeks.
Dell · Santorini
Every backup job at a glance
Turned a long list of jobs into a calendar admins read in seconds, and added it to Dell’s design system.
Dell · PPDM
Reports admins build themselves
Templates or build your own, exported as CSV or PDF. 42% adoption by month three.
IKEA · Capgemini Invent
A developer portal that feels like IKEA
Rebuilt how global teams find APIs and patterns, on IKEA’s Skapa design system, and added new patterns back to Skapa.
The small things
Details most people never notice, but feel.
Small things in products I use every day that I can’t stop noticing. Each one is simple, and each one feels right.
iOS · Liquid Glass
Glass that behaves like glass
It bends and blurs what’s behind it the way real glass would, so layers feel physical, not painted on.
macOS · Motion
The speaker that runs out of room
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 face turns dark or light with the local time, so before calling Mumbai or Toronto I can see if it’s a sensible hour.
Things I’ve built
Designed it. Shipped it.
AI helps me explore more ideas, faster. The taste, the judgement and the last 10% are still mine.
iOS app · Live since Feb 2026
Revisit
Save the cafés, veg restaurants and hidden spots you find while travelling, then share a city as a guide. Designed and built alone in SwiftUI, in about a month.
AI design tools · 2026
Design Companion
Small AI prototypes that work alongside a designer.
Layout ideas
Brainstorms layouts
UI copy
English and Arabic
Feedback summary
From usability notes
Style Studio
Learns your style
Off the clock
Quiet in a room. Loud on a cricket day.
Reading
Hornet Flight, 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 a one percent chance, and sometimes that chance is good enough… Are you willing to give absolutely everything that you have to make that one into 10, and then grow that 10 into 30?”
Virat Kohli
He has been my idol for 18+ years, and I’ve lived by this. Give everything to the one percent, and something good usually comes out of it.