Headline

Product designer. Ex UX Design intern at MakeMyTrip . NIT Rourkela . Ex-product design intern at Swipe YC 21

About

I am Akhoury Pranjal Kumar better known as APK, a user experience designer based in India. I recently graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design. Throughout my life, I have stayed in many different places and along my journey, I have met a lot of people from varied regions, cultures and beliefs, and in this process, I have developed empathy which helps me in my design process. Along with this, I have gained a lot of interest in Design thinking, Human-computer interaction and psychology that I try to utilise in my design projects.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

aistudio

claude

notion

openai

Luma AI

Work experience

Product Designer at Leap, Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

User Experience Designer at MakeMyTrip, Mar 2024 - Nov 2024 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Design Intern at Swipe (YC S21), May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Design Team Head at DSC NIT Rourkela, Aug 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos, I am leading a team of designers tasked with solving college-level problems and designing websites, posters and more for various college events and clubs. Our current projects focus on streamlining club inductions and making it easy for college students to explore campus and related events. Through effective management, my team has successfully developed websites for several clubs and events. One of our recent projects includes the design of the Nitrutsav 2023 website, which can be accessed at https://nitrutsav.live.

Design Team Lead at HackNITR Hackathon, Aug 2022 - Feb 2023 · 7 mos, Raurkela, Odisha, India, As the leader of a group of innovative designers, my responsibility was to design various social media posters, event brochures, event websites, and banners for the HackNITR 4.0 event, which attracted 5000 registrations. In addition to managing the design team, I collaborated with other teams to ensure a cohesive event experience. As part of my contribution, I created a responsive website with a Star Wars theme that'can be accessed at the following link: https://www.hacknitr.com/.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Industrial and Product Design, National Institute of Technology Rourkela