The mountains taught me restraint.
Scale taught me why.

From the Himalayas to systems used by over a million people a day. This is how I got here.

The path

The altitude dropped.
The reach climbed.

Three places made me the designer I am. Plotted honestly, by elevation and by how many people the work reached.

Uttarakhand, where it starts

Roots in the mountains

Raised in the hills, where altitude teaches patience and respect for things that simply work. In the mountains, over-engineering gets you hurt. You carry only what earns its weight, and that bias toward functional simplicity still decides what stays in my designs, and what gets cut.

≈ 1,900 m · Uttarakhand hillsOne valley
NIT Calicut → IIMC Delhi

Learning the craft

I came to design sideways: through engineering, then campus festivals Tathva and Ragam, eventually leading the Ragam 2018 design team. An Institute Silver Medal at IIMC Delhi taught me the discipline under the craft: deadlines, critique, and the difference between decoration and communication.

≈ 10 m · Calicut, coastOne campus
Digital India Corporation

Designing at national scale

Today I design the Poshan Tracker ecosystem: registration, authentication, and offline-resilient flows used by 1.33M+ Anganwadi workers serving 89M+ beneficiaries. When your design ships to every district in India, every assumption you didn't test becomes someone else's bad day.

≈ 216 m · New Delhi1.33M+ screens
Mayank Shukla

Mayank Shukla

Senior Product Designer

Based in
New Delhi, India
Experience
5+ years
Currently
Digital India Corporation
Available for new projects
How I work

I design for the worst day, not the demo.

Technology is only as good as the trust it commands. Across India's public-service ecosystems, design directly governs how nutrition, information, and identity reach people. I build interfaces that translate policy into something that holds up against messy, real-world field conditions.

The conditions I design for

Offline-first sync
Slow cameras
Low-literacy users
Crowded centres
Shared devices
Harsh daylight screens
We don't design for perfect devices and high-speed fiber. We design for the conditions people actually live and work in.
The one line I repeat in every design review
Journey

Every stop taught me something I still use.

Engineering foundations, communication strategy, and 5+ years shipping design systems at national scale.

Experience

Jan 2024 – PresentNow

Assistant Manager (UX/UI) · Digital India Corporation

Designing end-to-end UX for the Poshan Tracker ecosystem, serving 1.34M active Anganwadi workers and 89.2M+ beneficiaries across India: THR distribution authentication, registration workflows, and offline field-resilient systems.

Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration (Innovation), 2024

Nov 2021 – Nov 2023

Design Consultant · Election Commission of India

Led design for democratic awareness campaigns and explainer interfaces including the 'Main Bharat Hoon' platform, under strict clarity and accessibility constraints with zero margin for misinterpretation.

6M+ views, the highest in ECI history

Sept 2020 – Oct 2021

Graphic Designer · Sociowash

Designed digital creatives and brand visuals for major consumer brands including Oral-B and Ambipur, maintaining high-throughput design pipelines under tight production deadlines.

95% on-time delivery rate

Education

2019 – 2020

PG Diploma, Advertising & Public Relations · IIMC Delhi

Studied media communications, visual persuasion, and audience behavior patterns at a national scale.

Institute Silver Medal

2014 – 2018

B.Tech, Production Engineering · NIT Calicut

Found design through the campus festivals Tathva and Ragam, growing from a first-year volunteer to leading the design team of Ragam 2018.

Led Ragam 2018 design team

Capabilities

Four ways I earn my seat.

Pick one. Each capability is backed by shipped work, not a course certificate.

Product Thinking & Strategy

Shipped to 36 states

Aligning user needs with technical realities and organizational policy, mapping complex workflows, and designing metrics-backed civic and welfare systems.

Systems ThinkingConstraints AnalysisOffline-First UX MappingMetrics-Driven Design
The next part

Now you know the story.
Let's write what's next.

If your problem is real and the stakes matter, I'd genuinely like to hear it.