Ash

Ash

Design + Product

About

A software designer who has failed at founding (Saas startups) twice already.

Constantly intrigued by audacious product and industry-disrupting businesses.

Designed, built or advised at Tessact, Devfolio, Metamorph, WhatsGoodHere, Turtlewig, Dello, Volume & Tape.

Speaking

2024
Stakeholders, Decisions & Design
PES University, Bangalore

Spoke to 200 students on designing in fast-paced startups, identifying true stakeholders, shared a costly mistake that led to an 11 lakh loss, and millimetres of key learnings from 2 years of design experience.

2024
Advance Prototyping and Fundamentals of UI
PES University, Bangalore

Led a workshop on enhancing a daily-use digital product's key path, covering mobile app and web app architecture, and guided the creation of a high-fidelity Figma prototype to then user test the flow with.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Mumbai/Bangalore

Powering 0 → 1 by building platform-wide features and value propositions along the lines of Scheduling for social media, Media asset management, Reviewing workflow and much more..

Led a team to define and execute the end-to-end platform experience of real-time video collaboration.

2023 — 2023
Bangalore/Remote

We built a real-time collaborative editor to enable cross-function teams and/or intra-team editors to work together in the same timeline to craft videos of tomorrow.

But not accommodating for building a vitamin instead of a painkiller got us thinking about how none of us knew how to sell of distribute the product we were building. Selling is much harder and much more monetarily draining than we expected it to be.

2021 — 2021
Bangalore/Remote

Worked on building the profile page for the platform while also taking my very first steps into design systems.

2019 — 2020
Cofounder, Growth at Turtlewig
Bangalore

Directed growth and marketing for an all-in-one platform serving designepreneurs. It combined DAM and design proofing tools for streamlined communication, collateral management, and cash inflow.

Traces left behind of the failed startup
Your story ArticleSaas worthy ArticleTurtlewig explained

2020 — 2020
Online

Increased overall engagement by creating content and focusing on UX changes with user research, comments and reviews on existing forms of interaction.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Building a brand for a super niche audience

Certifications

2020

Dwelled into other extremely different domains of founding a company or working at a startup with things like growth, marketing and multiple other aspects.

Writing

2022

Lessons learnt from early endeavours as an entrepreneur.

2020

What does it mean to be a designer that understands product, people and business.

Education

2003 — 2018

Contact

Twitter