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title: "Arun Koushik - Founding Designer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Arun Koushik, I complain a lot and design stuff so I can stop complaining. | Lead Product Designer | AI × Product design based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
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# Arun Koushik on Tal

## Headline

I complain a lot and design stuff so I can stop complaining\. \| Lead Product Designer \| AI × Product design

## About

I notice when something is broken before I can explain why\. That's been the most useful thing about me in every room I've been in\. I've spent the last 8 years in product design, mostly at early\-stage startups where the brief is vague, the timeline is aggressive, and "we'll figure out the design later" is a sentence someone actually said\. Most recently at Truva, I led design across consumer products and internal tools — and in that time the business went from ₹6 Cr to ₹30\+ Cr in monthly revenue and from 3 to 15 homes sold every month\. I've owned product, brand, and design end\-to\-end, and acted as a de\-facto PM more times than my title suggested\. I use AI the way I use Figma — as a thinking tool, not a shortcut\. \-\-\- Outside of work, I build things too\. One of them is Dearest Internet: a single button that sends you somewhere on the web an algorithm would never take you\. Small thing\. Made with care\. \-\-\- I work best when the problem is genuinely hard and the people around me give a damn\. I set quality bars and hold them\. I mentor\. I push back when something is wrong and move fast when it's right\. If you're building something ambitious and want someone who cares about the details and the direction — let's talk\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Founding Designer at Truva, May 2024 \- Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Design lead reporting directly to founders; owned end\-to\-end product and brand experience across consumer, broker, and internal platforms\. Led design for one of India’s most polished real\-estate web experiences, spanning discovery, listings, and seamless lead\-generation Built a dashboard for sellers using Softr & Airtable \[ No \- code \] used for early validation, onboarding, and experimentation ahead of full product launches\. Winning internal hackathon\. Designed and shipped multiple internal\-facing products critical to operations and scale: A custom CMS that streamlined property onboarding and reduced operational friction for listing teams\. Cut down time by 80% A property valuation tool enabling instant pricing estimates for houses across micro\-markets \(eg\. Powai\)\. Apps for brokers, improving usability, on\-ground adoption & reducing bandwidth of internal team\. Acted as a de\-facto PM on multiple initiatives: defining problem statements, scoping MVPs, and prioritizing roadmap items with founders and engineering\. Had convinced stakeholders to drop multiple feature request through reasoning\. Managed and mentored a small design team \(2 – 4\); interviewed and hired junior designers and interns; set quality bars across product and brand\.

Mentor \- product design / UX / UI design at MyCaptain, Aug 2023 \- May 2024 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Started my mentorship journey after years of building products and moving metrics\. The first batch is a bunch of super\-enthusiastic mentees who I'm looking forward to mentor in their path to design thinking\.

Design leadership fellowship at Obvious, Mar 2023 \- May 2023 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, During my time at Obvious, I worked with brands like Yulu, Big basket to help them take better design decisions using insights from users, product and business skills of the team\.

Co\-Founder: Product, Design and creators at Pancake, Jun 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 10 mos, Internet, We tried to build a stupid simple website builder focussed on freedom and free\-flowing expression\. Received some user love\. Failed on the way trying to move from the prototype stage\. Let's build it again\. Someday\. www\.pancake\.page

Design Lead at upGrad Jeet, Jun 2021 \- Aug 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

M\.des, Strategic design and brand leadership, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Master of Science \- MS, Psychology, Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai

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