Durgesh Kukreti
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Bengaluru, India
Toptal member since September 2, 2026
Durgesh is a product designer with 9+ years of experience turning complex problems into products that users love and businesses can scale. He blends strategy, UX, systems, and tech to ship ideas. He has built products across fintech, AI, B2B, SaaS, healthcare, and consumer tech, reaching millions of users. At Fisdom, he helped scale to 10 million users and $200 million in revenue; at LinkByCar, he contributed to 135% ARR growth; and at Miracle of Mind, an app hit 1 million downloads in 15 hours.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Founding Designer
LinkByCar
- Led product design for B2B fleet management dashboards used by Tesla, Volkswagen Group, and top-tier EV fleets across Europe.
- Designed scalable energy-usage, fleet-performance, and vehicle-health visualization components, directly improving operational efficiency for fleet operators.
- Took product management initiative and defined the two-tier pricing strategy, API monetization model, and alert taxonomy framework for the V1 launch.
- Built responsive layouts and admin tools across web and tablet, reducing support requests for fleet managers; collaborated asynchronously with a distributed French team across CET/IST.
Senior Product Designer
Isha Foundation
- Worked as a lead designer for Sadhguru's mental well-being app that reached 1+ million downloads in 15 hours, outpacing ChatGPT's launch curve.
- Designed the full experience from onboarding to daily-practice flows, including cosmic-themed UI, prana-style microinteractions, and sunset-triggered session reminders.
- Aligned a visual language with neuroscience-backed design principles while preserving spiritual depth, working closely with content and engineering.
Design Lead
Fisdom
- Designed the complete stock-broking mobile app from scratch, including real-time trading, portfolio management, watchlists, and market-data visualization.
- Built the KYC/onboarding flow that simplified demat-account opening, improving activation from 12% to 31%.
- Created and shipped integrations with 20+ banking partners.
- Designed the web trading platform, setting accessibility and performance benchmarks for the Indian broking industry.
- Directed the rebrand and launch of Finity, Fisdom's consumer-facing investment app.
- Built the product design system used across mobile, web, and partner integrations.
- Spearheaded UX for the core investment journey, including SIP setup, mutual fund selection, KYC/AML onboarding, retirement planning, and wealth dashboards.
- Helped scale Fisdom from an early-stage product to 2+ million users.
- Owned activation as a KPI, partnered with PMs on the quarterly roadmap, and led product simplification.
- Drove user research and usability testing, working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and compliance in an Agile environment.
Product Owner | Product Growth Designer
Beebom
- Joined when Beebom was a short-video app and redesigned it into a full tech-media platform.
- Guided UX for the mobile-app transformation and web growth strategy.
- Helped scale the website from 100,000 to 1+ million monthly users; Beebom later grew into a 10+ million monthly-user property.
Service Designer
FuelBuddy
- Designed IoT-driven monitoring and feedback workflows to track fuel movement, detect potential spillage and leakage during transit, and surface operational anomalies across fuel delivery trucks.
- Mapped and redesigned the end-to-end fuel delivery journey from the supplier and fuel organizer to the delivery fleet and end customer, connecting previously fragmented operational touchpoints into a single product workflow.
- Designed and launched the FuelBuddy mobile application, enabling customers to place and track fuel orders, monitor delivery status, access transaction details, and manage their fuel requirements digitally.
- Built a complete digital product loop connecting suppliers, organizers, delivery operators, IoT-enabled trucks, and customers, improving visibility and traceability from fuel procurement through last-mile delivery.
Senior Designer
ElaWoman
- Designed and improved fertility and women's healthcare journeys, simplifying how users discovered fertility clinics, doctors, treatments, and reproductive health information.
- Built and optimized mobile and web product experiences across discovery, consultation, and appointment booking, creating a more seamless patient-to-clinic journey.
- Designed data-driven fertility tracking experiences that helped users understand ovulation cycles, fertility windows, and reproductive health insights through simple, actionable interfaces.
Education
Diploma in Human-centered Design
Interaction Design Foundation - Remote
Diploma in Service Design
Interaction Design Foundation - Remote
Bachelor's Degree in User Experience Design
University of Delhi - Delhi, India
Certifications
Adobe Certified Asscociate
Adobe
Skills
Tools
GitHub, Claude, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, FigJam, Postman, Google Analytics, Hotjar, AI Tools, Jira, Rive
Platforms
Figma, Webflow, WordPress, ClickFunnels, Mixpanel
Other
Product Design, Brand Design, Framer, Agile, Wireframing, design tokens, Product Management, User Interface Engineering (UIE), Prototyping, Information Architecture (IA), Usability, Mobile App, SaaS Design, Service Blueprints, Customer Journey Design, Experience Maps, Jobs to be Done (JTBD), Ethnographic Research, User-centered Design (UCD), WCAG 3, Inclusive Design, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Design Systens, Adobe Creative Cloud, Agile UX, Branding, Know Your Customer (KYC), Product Ownership, Product Growth, Mobile User Acquisition, Customer Retention, Mobile GPS, Web Dashboards, App Design, Fintech, UX Strategy, Interaction Design (IxD), Accessibility, Dashboard Design, UX Design, Design Systems, UI Design, UX Research, iOS UI Design, MVP Design, Mobile UI, Web UX Design, Healthtech, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Responsive Design, Financial Services, Print Design, Graphic Design, Marketing Design, Visual Design, Customer Experience (CX) Design, AI Product Management, AI Agents, Usability Heuristics, User Experience Design, User Flows, Flutter, Telematics, Visualization, Vibe Coding, Healthcare IT, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Data-informed Visual Design, Enterprise UX, Conversational UX, Wealth Management, Fleet Management, Mobility, Consumer Research, Gamification, Habit Formation, User Engagement, User Retention, Product Thinking, Generative Design, Human Interface Design, Data Visualization, Supabase, Full-stack Development, AI-powered Product Design, Mobile App Design, Vendor Management, Product Strategy, Presentation Design, Social Media Design, AI Design, AI Content Creation, OpenAI GPT-4 API, Design Thinking, Web App Design, Service Design, User Journeys, Form Design, Design Thinking Facilitation, User Research, Jitter, ClickUp, ChatGPT, Figma variables, Storybook, Shadcn, Metabase, SEO Tools, Semantic Web, IoT Design, React, Next.js, Electric Vehicles, Operations Design, Supply Chain
Experience
- User Experience Design - 9 years
- Product Design - 9 years
- Brand Design - 9 years
- Fintech - 7 years
- Design Systens - 6 years
- Product Management - 5 years
- Healthcare IT - 5 years
- AI-powered Product Design - 3 years
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