Khwabon Ke Parindey
Alyssa Mendonsa, Mohit Chauhan · Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
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Vol50
I am Gyan, curious by nature, rigorous by choice.
I spend a lot of my time in systems that are already messy: farms, ops tools, enterprise products, places where a bad call isn’t just an ugly slide. What I’m usually after is making that mess a little clearer for the people who live with it, shaping clarity from complexity without pretending the mess wasn’t there.
I’ve been called detail-obsessed more than once, and it’s not wrong. Underneath the checklists is just care. I want the work to feel honest when someone is tired, rushed, or unsure.
I used to hold onto things forever, waiting for perfect. I still spot every edge case. I’ve just learned I grow faster by doing: shipping, listening, adjusting, more than polishing alone in a corner.
These days I try to stay close to the craft and still know when to let go so the team can move. The timeline below is that path, from creative roots to enterprise scale.
- From early ageCreative roots
Making things before I named the habit
- Long before I had a name for the work, I drew, built, and fixed things. Creativity wasn’t a hobby box; it was how I made sense of the world. That instinct never pointed to a single job title, but it set the bar: I care how something feels to use, not only how it looks.
Making things before I named the habit
- Long before I had a name for the work, I drew, built, and fixed things. Creativity wasn’t a hobby box; it was how I made sense of the world. That instinct never pointed to a single job title, but it set the bar: I care how something feels to use, not only how it looks.
From early ageCreative roots - 2016 - 2020B.Tech, Automobile Engineering
Engineering taught me constraints
- Automobile engineering taught me that physics, safety, and systems don’t forgive sloppy thinking. I didn’t leave that behind when I moved toward design. I still reach for it when software has to work in the real world, especially in the field.
2016 - 2020B.Tech, Automobile EngineeringEngineering taught me constraints
- Automobile engineering taught me that physics, safety, and systems don’t forgive sloppy thinking. I didn’t leave that behind when I moved toward design. I still reach for it when software has to work in the real world, especially in the field.
- 2020 - 2021IxDF · HCI
HCI gave the chaos a path
- IxDF’s HCI track wasn’t a certificate for the wall. It was the first time I could name what I was reaching for: clear ways to think about behavior, feedback, and error. Interaction design as a discipline, not a mood board, while I was at Ucertify, running demos and client calls alongside the coursework.
HCI gave the chaos a path
- IxDF’s HCI track wasn’t a certificate for the wall. It was the first time I could name what I was reaching for: clear ways to think about behavior, feedback, and error. Interaction design as a discipline, not a mood board, while I was at Ucertify, running demos and client calls alongside the coursework.
2020 - 2021IxDF · HCI - 2020 - 2021UcertifyEDTECHProduct Specialist
Talking to users before I called it research
- At Ucertify I lived in demos and client calls, listening until patterns showed up. Empathy stopped being a buzzword and became a habit: what people say, what they do, and what the product actually asks them to do.
2020 - 2021UcertifyEDTECHProduct SpecialistTalking to users before I called it research
- At Ucertify I lived in demos and client calls, listening until patterns showed up. Empathy stopped being a buzzword and became a habit: what people say, what they do, and what the product actually asks them to do.
- 2021 - 2023BazaarNXTB2B · SUPPLY CHAINProduct Designer
B2B at real scale
- BazaarNXT stretched me across mobile and internal tools where mistakes cost real money and time. I learned to ship coherent systems, not just screens: one language across products, with retention and adoption as the honest scoreboard.
B2B at real scale
- BazaarNXT stretched me across mobile and internal tools where mistakes cost real money and time. I learned to ship coherent systems, not just screens: one language across products, with retention and adoption as the honest scoreboard.
2021 - 2023BazaarNXTB2B · SUPPLY CHAINProduct Designer - 2023 - 2026FasalIOT · B2B SaaSSenior Product Designer
Clarity in the field
- At Fasal I designed where telemetry meets real farms: sensors, dashboards, and workflows for people who don’t owe us their patience.
- The work that mattered most: untangling messy sensor flows, building a shared design language across verticals, and testing ideas in production, not only in slides.
2023 - 2026FasalIOT · B2B SaaSSenior Product DesignerClarity in the field
- At Fasal I designed where telemetry meets real farms: sensors, dashboards, and workflows for people who don’t owe us their patience.
- The work that mattered most: untangling messy sensor flows, building a shared design language across verticals, and testing ideas in production, not only in slides.
- 2026 - PRESENTHEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISELead Product Designer
Where I am now: enterprise at scale
- At Hewlett Packard Enterprise I lead product design on complex enterprise systems: long-lived workflows, many stakeholders, interfaces that have to stay clear under scrutiny.
- It’s the same bar I held in the field: clarity when the system is messy and the user didn’t choose to be patient, now at enterprise scale.
Where I am now: enterprise at scale
- At Hewlett Packard Enterprise I lead product design on complex enterprise systems: long-lived workflows, many stakeholders, interfaces that have to stay clear under scrutiny.
- It’s the same bar I held in the field: clarity when the system is messy and the user didn’t choose to be patient, now at enterprise scale.
2026 - PRESENTHEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISELead Product Designer
Don't Make Me Think
The Design of Everyday Things
Microcopy
Articulating Design Decisions
Sprint
Refactoring UI
Inspired
Thinking with Type
The Elements of User Experience
Just Enough Research
Lean UX
About Face
Hooked
Design Systems
User Friendly
Interviewing Users
Escaping the Build Trap
The Making of a Manager
Continuous Discovery Habits
