I design products. But I spend most of my time understanding people.

I grew up in West Bengal, India. Design was not part of how I was raised. I found it later, pushed in by curiosity and pulled in by the work. Getting here took longer than I expected. I am glad it did.

I walk a lot. Almost always with a camera. Cities mostly: London, York, Paris, Liverpool. I am not trying to make good photos. I am just trying to be somewhere without a deliverable attached to it. It helps more than I can explain.

I am an Arsenal fan and I follow Formula 1 closely. What I love about both is the part that does not make the highlights. How Arteta rebuilt Arsenal's culture from the inside, the way the whole squad moves differently now compared to three years ago. In F1, the driver gets the trophy but the pitstop crew rehearses thousands of times to shave one second off a stop that already takes less than two. That kind of unseen work, done over and over until it becomes automatic, is what I find genuinely fascinating.

The result is visible. The work that makes it possible is not. I think about that a lot.

When something is not working in a product, it is almost never the thing that looks broken. The button nobody clicks. The checkout that loses people at the last step. The dashboard nobody opens after week one. I have spent eight years learning to not fix the button. To go back far enough to find the real problem.

Before I open Figma, I map what I know and what I am guessing. I write down the hypothesis: not a vague direction, but a specific belief that can be wrong. Then I try to prove it wrong. I pull PMs and stakeholders into decisions early, not because it is good process, but because I have seen what happens when they are not there. The design ships perfectly and gets changed in engineering because nobody understood why a decision was made. I would rather have the argument early.

Then I test. Not to confirm what I think, but to find out what I got wrong. There is always something.