I’m a product designer based in San Francisco. I’ve spent the last 11 years designing digital products and brands, leading several successful and impactful projects.

I also teach and write music, design furniture, and play a racket sport called Pickleball.

My work experience includes working with small as well as large companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Postman, on B2B as well as consumer products. I also ran my own design studio for a couple of years, consulting for companies such as Cure.Fit and Senseforth AI, where I was responsible for leading design and research on award-winning products. 

In addition to my design work, I also play music semi-professionally (the violin and piano) and teach a music program for children. This year, apart from going back to grad school, I’m using the time off from work to focus on things that are important to me like spending time with my family, working in queer advocacy as a volunteer at the GLBT museum in San Francisco, and most recently, playing a racket sport called Pickleball! You can learn more about me on my website (anishdasgupta.com) or get in touch via email.

GLBT Museum, San Francisco
Lead Designer + Strategist
Jan 2023 - Present

• Currently positioned to achieve a 2x growth in annual museum attendance by implementing a multi-pronged strategy that involves building partnerships, scaling up events, optimizing website UX, and producing short-form video content

• Introduced design sprints to bring staff and board members together, prototype ideas and create actionable plans

Compass Real Estate
Senior Product Designer II
July 2021 - Aug 2022

• Led design on the Finances vertical that saw customer adoption grow 60% over a period of 8 months

• Crafted a mobile-centric product roadmap through workshops, research, and design sprints, aligning with a global strategy 

• Identified opportunities within agent finance management, devised a data-driven strategy, and leveraged it to help multiple product verticals navigate roadmap intersections and feature prioritization

• Mentored UX designers as a project lead
  

Microsoft
Product Designer: Lead, Search Extensibility
Feb 2019 - July 2021

• Oversaw design and research from its inception as the Domain Lead on the product

• Conceptualized and designed features on the product that led to 600+ enterprise contracts within 9 months of its launch

• Pioneered product features like ‘assisted search’ and ‘intelligent filtering’ that increased customer adoption 

• Collaborated with international teams to create design systems that established coherence across product verticals

• Established a framework to design accessible UX workflows within the team 

• Frequently responsible for getting executive leadership buy-in and promoting alignment across stakeholder teams

Independent Design Consultant
2015 - 2019

Helped companies build award-winning products and brands, like Deccan Herald, one of India’s leading newspaper companies. Also managed products and teams

• CureFit
  Senior Design Consultant
  2017 - 2019 

  Responsible for the design on multiple successful releases that saw CureFit’s user base grow 3x in 2 years

• Senseforth.AI
  Lead Designer
  2017 - 2018

• Led design and research on the conversational bot platform “a.ware” that is now patented and has won multiple awards

• Created a brand identity and design strategy for the company

Postman
Lead Product Designer
2014 - 2015 

• As Postman’s first designer, solved complex design challenges in the developer ecosystem to create one of the most popular products in an API developer’s toolkit

• Created design that helped grow the user-base from 800k to over 2 million, and launch paid memberships

Adobe
UX Designer
2013 - 2014 

• Part of the core team that pioneered an e-learning platform called Adobe KnowHow that grew to over 1 million users

• Established a design system for Adobe Captivate 8, that laid the foundation for future versions and teams to build upon

Music Teaching
Accel Montessori, Violin Teacher, Part-time
2018 — present

• Created a violin program and taught a group of 5 students of various ages and successfully took them through 3 competitive grade exams under the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, London (ABRSM)  

• Focused on helping students compose, play by ear and develop a distinctive style