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Designing since 2023
Portrait of Lokesh Bhatia

Lokesh Bhatia

Product Designer

  • Works inFintech & AI
  • Studied atIIT Guwahati
  • Works fromBengaluru, India

I learned to look before I learned to design.

IIT Guwahati

Somewhere in the middle of my degree I became the campus photographer. That’s where the looking started.

Self-taught

A camera, then Photoshop, then Adobe XD, and no idea that what I was doing already had a name. I found out it did, and that people were paid to do it. No degree, no bootcamp.

2022

I graduated into a market with no appetite for juniors. It took four months of making work nobody asked for before someone paid me for it.

Since then

Mostly the only designer on the product, which taught me the parts of the job nobody assigns you and what solo work costs. I learned to pressure-test my own thinking because there was nobody else to do it. That story is in the case studies.

Apr 2023 – Jan 2024

Sustainability Economics.ai

UI/UX Designer

Sole designer on a net-zero carbon accounting platform. Built for banks, insurers and corporates.

Feb 2024 – Aug 2025

Rupeezy

Product Designer

Owned the trading app end to end: 200K+ registered users, 97% of company revenue. Built the partner platform and the design system.

Sep 2025 – Nov 2025

Runable AI

Founding Product Designer

Only designer, no PM. Took an AI agent platform from concept to public launch.

Dec 2025 – Apr 2026

ZZAZZ AI

Product Designer

Priced content for the post-AI web. Designed the publisher product and rebuilt the payment flow from seven steps to four.

Now

Open to work. The problem matters more than the industry.

Company finance-session poster

I taught a session on personal finance

I’m interested in personal finance and investing, and HR asked whether I’d run a session for the team. So I did. Personal finance and derivatives, one afternoon in June 2024.

It’s the same job as design: take something people avoid because it looks complicated, and make the first step obvious.

When I log off…

Gym, sport, and travel when I can.

Before design, there was a camera

I stopped after graduating. The eye didn’t.

That’s the person behind the work.

If something here made you curious, I’d like to hear it. Email is quickest.