Akash Datta

Co-Founder

Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia10 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of a UX strategy studio for scaling tech companies.
  • Over 10 years of experience in product design.
  • Expert in untangling product complexity.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX Designer specializing in SaaS and E-commerce industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyUser Experience (ux)User Interface DesignDesign CollaborationBig-picture ThinkingProduct Design

Other Skills

UX ResearchWireframingProduct ConceptPrototypingUser FlowsMobile DesignAutodesk MayaDigital IllustrationCharacter AnimationAnimationTexturingAfter EffectsStoryboarding3D ModelingCompositing

About

Does this sound like your situation? Your product worked when you had 50 customers. Now you have 5,000 and the cracks are showing - onboarding is confusing, features compete with each other, and your team is shipping faster than the experience can keep up. That's where I come in. I'm the founder of Design by Drops, a UX strategy studio that helps scaling tech companies untangle product complexity. My wife and I work with scaleups on focused 4-6 week engagements. Exact steps on how we build focus: → A free 1-hour discovery call where I diagnose the problem (not pitch you) → A UX audit that maps your actual customer journey against what you think it is → A prioritised backlog your team or our studio can execute immediately Before starting the studio, I spent 10+ years as a product designer at scaleups including SafetyCulture, ReachOut Australia, and Pet Circle - scaling products used by millions. I've seen the scaling mess from the inside. If your product has outgrown its design, hit me up!

Experience

10 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Design by drops

Founder

Jan 2026Present · 3 mos

  • A UX strategy studio helping scaling tech companies untangle product complexity. We work with Series B/C teams on focused engagements: discovery audits, service blueprints, and sprint-based UX leadership. Founded with my wife, combining UX strategy and business operations.
User Experience (UX)Product StrategyProduct DesignUX Research

Terem

UX Designer

Jul 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos · Sydney, NSW · Hybrid

  • Leading UX strategy for a client's internal operations platform - reducing UI component complexity over 8 months while embedding systemic design thinking across the team.
WireframingDesign CollaborationProduct ConceptUser Interface DesignPrototyping

Pet circle

Senior Product Designer

Jun 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr · Sydney, NSW · Hybrid

  • Redesigned the repeat delivery experience to fix leaky UX: high churn from repeat delivery customers because managing scheduled deliveries was confusing and error-prone.
  • Mapped service blueprint across UI, comms, and warehouse ops. Replaced the platform's delivery group model with date-based grouping that matched how customers actually think about their orders.
  • Result: Reduced support tickets from accidental duplicates and editing confusion. Improved retention and LTV for auto-delivery customers.
User Experience (UX)

Safetyculture

Senior Product Designer

Nov 2021Jun 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Sydney, NSW · Hybrid

  • Led the redesign of enterprise user permissions to meet scalability gaps in onboarding and role access. Researched with IKEA, AusPost, and Transport for London. Designed mock-RBAC system within tight technical constraints.
  • Reduced enterprise onboarding time and cut engineering overhead by working within existing systems.
User FlowsBig-picture ThinkingUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignMobile Design+1

All hands group

Director

Sep 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • All Hands is a life skills learning program for students and professionals who want their life to be more than just about being productive. In our program, Quality of Life and social impact go hand-in-hand - set meaningful goals, turn challenges into practice and connect with other people who love to live.
Big-picture ThinkingUX Research

Reachout australia

User Experience Designer

Jul 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

User FlowsBig-picture ThinkingUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignMobile Design+1

Whatsmineapp

UX Designer

Nov 2019Mar 2020 · 4 mos · Sydney, Australia

User FlowsBig-picture ThinkingUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignMobile Design+1

Deputy

Experience Designer

May 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • 1. Utilise data in order to truly understand our users' behaviours and frustrations
  • 2. Develop empathy for our users by talking and listening to them regularly
  • 3. Synthesise and identify common patterns from different customer research streams
  • 4. Assist with the creation of user profiles, epics and stories
  • 5. Create wireframes, sitemaps, user-flows and prototypes in order to effectively communicate design solutions
  • 6. Design delightful micro-interactions and beautiful, simple user interfaces
  • 7. Ensure your designs are inclusive and accessible to a wide range of users
  • 8. Continually iterate and improve designs based on usability testing, a/b testing and customer feedback
  • 9. Always strive to hone my craft and innovate by keeping up to date with the latest design trends, techniques and tools
  • 10. Have strong facilitation and collaboration skills in order to clearly articulate design solutions to stakeholders and peers
  • 11. Be adaptive to a fast-paced, flexible product development environment
  • 12. Live and breathe the Deputy Design team values
User FlowsBig-picture ThinkingUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignMobile Design+1

Design brewery

UX Designer

Mar 2017Mar 2018 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

  • Managed and designed 9 projects including websites and web apps. Each project ranging from 1 to 3 months.
User FlowsUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignMobile DesignWireframing

Pure design solution

Senior Interactive Designer

Apr 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Ideated and designed the UI/UX of 4 products (apps and responsive websites) to bridge the gap between new/existing customers and company’s new products/goals.
User FlowsUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignWireframing

Jack of all threads

Designer

Feb 2014Jan 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • A startup driven by the aim to help sell online via crowdfunding - jackofallthreads.co
  • Product design and management (http://jackofallthreads.co) - ideated and designed complete web interface and user/customer experience with startup lead, Yash Kanoi. Worked closely with developing team to manage product pipeline.
  • Established and maintained blog on wordpress.com to grow and educate user-base.
  • Designing for and managing growth aspect of company Facebook page - grew Facebook page presence through paid/unpaid marketing of current events, occasional promotions and posts for general growth of user base.
  • Brand design and development: Logo creation and colour exploration techniques with startup lead.
  • Product testing - A/B testing using Optimizely and CrazyEgg to optimise UI/UX of core pages of product.
  • Learned and developed online marketing skills - Used skill to grow online presence of website and Facebook page. Alexa rank improved to 5,000 in India with over 8,000 daily users.
  • User-based design ideation and development - helped users ideate and develop designs for their campaigns (more than 1,000 products of my design were sold).
  • Vectorising existing design to make print-ready work for production.
  • Managed up to 10 design interns to help with process and social media related design work.
User FlowsUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product DesignWireframing

Marks and spencer

Freelance - The Healthy Week

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Created a motion graphic video for an M&S project called 'The Healthy Week' carried out in Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
User FlowsUX ResearchUser Experience (UX)Product Design

Aseanpreneurs

Freelance - ASEANpreneurs Autodesk Design Challenge

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Singapore

  • ASEANpreneurs Autodesk Design Challenge - Commissioned to design marketing collateral including videos and print material. One of the largest design competitions worldwide.

Clockworks

ClockWorks promotional video

Jan 2013Feb 2013 · 1 mo · Singapore

  • Created a promotional video for the startup launch. Widely promoted over social media and consistently used as a pitching element.

Haum interiors

Logo Design and Web Design

Dec 2012May 2013 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Created a logo for Haum Interiors, an interior design firm in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
  • Designed website using Wix platform to showcase their past and present work.

Marks and spencer

Freelance - Banking the Unbanked

Nov 2012Dec 2012 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Filmed and animated a video for ‘Banking the Unbanked’ - Worked with Marks and Spencer to visually document their CSR initiative carried out all over India about financial literacy.

Florasent

Freelance - Logo Design

Nov 2012Nov 2012 · 0 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Provided a logo design for Florasent in Bangalore, India.

Aseanpreneurs

Freelance - 5th ASEANpreneurs Idea Canvas

Oct 2012Nov 2012 · 1 mo · Singapore

  • 5th ASEANpreneurs Idea Canvas - Worked alongside the president of ASEANpreneurs to market a competition, ASEANpreneurs Idea Canvas, held throughout the ASEAN countries. Received 50x more views than their next-most popular video.

Urbanjourney

Intern - Graphic Designer

Jun 2012Aug 2012 · 2 mos · Singapore

  • Designed Facebook advertising material and developed existing website design.

Education

Loughborough University

Graphic Communication (Hons. in Animation)

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Bachelor's degree — Animation

Jan 2010Jan 2013

Mallya Aditi International School

High School — ISC

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Delhi Public School

Jan 2004Jan 2010

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