Mrigank Anand
Designer | Noise | Ex-Kohler | NID | ID | UX | Systems
New Delhi
5+ years of work experience
Dec 20255 mosPresent
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Jan 20242 yrsDec 2025
On-site
As Assistant Manager, I supported all industrial design initiatives for the showers and valves category, with touchpoints throughout the complete design process, from product strategy and research to form development, detailing, and cross-functional delivery.
Collaborated with the marketing team to define the product roadmap for showers and valves, aligning long-term business goals with regional design direction.
Finalised the Radiance Shoulder Shower, resolving open design issues, enhancing usability, and publishing critical design line documentation to support engineering and manufacturing.
Led the design of a new filter-enabled shower platform, defined the scope, price positioning, style segment, concept and target cost alignments.
Developed and pitched multiple platform concepts to leadership, two of which were highly appreciated, and selected for immediate and future use.
Driving of the selected concept, including UX, form, and architecture. Co-developed a unified filter cartridge with engineering and finalised a industry first easy to replace interaction design.
Delivered a comprehensive design review package including one-to-one appearance models, renders, CMF directions, in-situ posters, animations, and presentations.
Created supplier-ready documentation for early cost and feasibility studies and worked closely with teams on material strategy, filter media selection, and mechanism refinement.
Completed concept design of a scalable shower valve platform with modular cartridges, push-button controls, and outlet flexibility.
Completed a 9 SKU shower collection, focused on elevating user experience and alignment with evolving regional needs.
Feb 20222 yrsJan 2024
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Led the end-to-end design of award-winning bathroom products tailored for the Indian market, combining user research, form development, and system-level thinking.
Conducted qualitative UX research of mechanical hot and cold bidet seat, sensor faucets, translating user insights into intuitive, ergonomic and intuitive products.
Created the APT Faucet and Shower collections (25+ SKUs) with a unified design language, scalable proportions, and high manufacturing fidelity.
Explored manufacturing techniques for APT Faucets including brazing, split-body forms, LPDC, and stainless steel extrusion.
Developed a wall-to-wall modular fixture mounting system to streamline installation across Indian construction types.
Delivered 1:1 appearance models and contextual visualizations to present multiple design directions aligned with regional needs.
Authored detailed Critical design documents to support engineering and manufacturing through production.
Jul 20217 mosJan 2022
On-site
Research: Planned and executed qualitative research with end users to understand storage behaviour & needs, Converted observations into insights to feed into concepts.
Design Conceptualization: Created innovative design concepts for the vanity unit, modular system with size variation to suit multiple bathroom sizes.
Material and Form Exploration: Researched materials and form development to enhance the product's appeal, functionality and usability.
Design Presentation :
Plan and execute showcase of 3 unique approaches fitting the scope of the project with Scale 1 appearance, In-situ use case, plan, logic of dimensions in Indian context.
Critical design element documentation: Publish documents for engineering and manufacturing teams to refer for DFM.
Jan 20212 mosFeb 2021
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Mrigank’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of design, Industrial design
National Institute of Design
20174 yrs2021
HSC
Victoria School
200411 yrs2015
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