Akarshan Chauhan — Product Designer

01 // ABOUT

Dedicated to designing for scale, complexity, and problems without easy answers.

Product designer with 7+ years across product design and spatial design. I gravitate toward messy, multi-stakeholder problems, ambiguous systems, and platforms used at real scale.

02 // SKILLS

Flair / Knack / Forte

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End-to-end
product design

UX ResearchUser JourneysWireframingPrototypingUsability TestingInformation ArchitectureInteraction DesignVisual DesignDesign DocumentationProduct StrategyUX ResearchUser JourneysWireframingPrototypingUsability TestingInformation ArchitectureInteraction DesignVisual DesignDesign DocumentationProduct Strategy

Owning a problem from research through shipped, structured design, not just the interface layer, but the underlying flows, edge cases, and decisions that hold it together.

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Design systems

Design SystemsComponent LibrariesPattern LibrariesDesign TokensDocumentationAccessibility (WCAG/GIGW)Design OpsContribution ModelsScalabilityGovernanceDesign SystemsComponent LibrariesPattern LibrariesDesign TokensDocumentationAccessibility (WCAG/GIGW)Design OpsContribution ModelsScalabilityGovernance

Building the shared language a product runs on: components, patterns, and rules that let teams move fast without reinventing decisions every time.

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AI fluency

ChatGPTClaudeGeminiFigma MakeV0LovableGoogle StitchCursorAntigravityClaude CodeChatGPTClaudeGeminiFigma MakeV0LovableGoogle StitchCursorAntigravityClaude Code

Using AI as a working partner across the process, not just prompting, but knowing which tool fits which stage, from early research synthesis to shipped prototypes.

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Multi-stakeholder
complexity

Stakeholder ManagementCross-functional CollaborationWorkshop FacilitationConsensus BuildingRequirement TranslationClient ManagementNegotiationPresentation SkillsConflict ResolutionAmbiguity NavigationStakeholder ManagementCross-functional CollaborationWorkshop FacilitationConsensus BuildingRequirement TranslationClient ManagementNegotiationPresentation SkillsConflict ResolutionAmbiguity Navigation

Designing where no one person owns the whole picture, translating between government bodies, engineering teams, partner organisations, and end users without losing the thread.

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Systems
thinking

Service BlueprintingJourney MappingCross-functional AlignmentStructural AnalysisProcess DesignSpatial DesignConstraint-based DesignScalable FrameworksPattern RecognitionRoot-cause ThinkingService BlueprintingJourney MappingCross-functional AlignmentStructural AnalysisProcess DesignSpatial DesignConstraint-based DesignScalable FrameworksPattern RecognitionRoot-cause Thinking

Seeing a product as a set of connected parts, not isolated screens, so a decision in one place is made with an eye on what it does everywhere else.