Subrata Dhar | Product Designer

Jan, 2019

Origin Strory

i've always had this weird pull toward making things. As a kid, i was into sketching, painting, art, and anything that involved creating something from scratch.

Growing up in Bengal probably had something to do with it. During Durga Puja, entire neighbourhoods transform into temporary worlds of art, elaborate pandals, sculptures, lights, typography, colours, tiny details everywhere.

i don't remember thinking about “design” back then. i just remember being fascinated by it. Then i discovered something completely different.

Jan, 2019

Origin Strory

i've always had this weird pull toward making things. As a kid, i was into sketching, painting, art, and anything that involved creating something from scratch.

Growing up in Bengal probably had something to do with it. During Durga Puja, entire neighbourhoods transform into temporary worlds of art, elaborate pandals, sculptures, lights, typography, colours, tiny details everywhere.

i don't remember thinking about “design” back then. i just remember being fascinated by it. Then i discovered something completely different.

Jan, 2019

Origin Strory

i've always had this weird pull toward making things. As a kid, i was into sketching, painting, art, and anything that involved creating something from scratch.

Growing up in Bengal probably had something to do with it. During Durga Puja, entire neighbourhoods transform into temporary worlds of art, elaborate pandals, sculptures, lights, typography, colours, tiny details everywhere.

i don't remember thinking about “design” back then. i just remember being fascinated by it. Then i discovered something completely different.

June, 2020

i started learning how things work.

i began my B. Tech Tech in Information Technology and got into programming and Android development. And i genuinely enjoyed it. There was something satisfying about writing code, solving a problem, and watching something come alive on a screen. For a while, i thought development was probably where i'd end up.

But while building things, i started noticing something else.

i would look at an app and find myself wondering, who decided to place this button here? Why does this screen feel so obvious? Why can i open an app i’ve never used before and still somehow know what to do? Why do some products make you think, while others just… make sense?

Those questions slowly started staying with me more than the code itself.

June, 2020

i started learning how things work.

i began my B. Tech Tech in Information Technology and got into programming and Android development. And i genuinely enjoyed it. There was something satisfying about writing code, solving a problem, and watching something come alive on a screen. For a while, i thought development was probably where i'd end up.

But while building things, i started noticing something else.

i would look at an app and find myself wondering, who decided to place this button here? Why does this screen feel so obvious? Why can i open an app i’ve never used before and still somehow know what to do? Why do some products make you think, while others just… make sense?

Those questions slowly started staying with me more than the code itself.

June, 2020

i started learning how things work.

i began my B. Tech Tech in Information Technology and got into programming and Android development. And i genuinely enjoyed it. There was something satisfying about writing code, solving a problem, and watching something come alive on a screen. For a while, i thought development was probably where i'd end up.

But while building things, i started noticing something else.

i would look at an app and find myself wondering, who decided to place this button here? Why does this screen feel so obvious? Why can i open an app i’ve never used before and still somehow know what to do? Why do some products make you think, while others just… make sense?

Those questions slowly started staying with me more than the code itself.

2021-23

Building>>Learning

That curiosity slowly pulled me toward UI and UX. Once i started paying attention, i began noticing design everywhere.

i was making college posters, designing presentation decks, and experimenting with layouts just because something didn’t feel right.Even during our college project, i ended up designing a few pages for a medical e-commerce website. None of it felt like a career decision at the time, i was just following what interested me.

Looking back, it was probably the obvious sign.

i wasn't just interested in building things.
i was interested in how people experienced them.

2021-23

Building>>Learning

That curiosity slowly pulled me toward UI and UX. Once i started paying attention, i began noticing design everywhere.

i was making college posters, designing presentation decks, and experimenting with layouts just because something didn’t feel right.Even during our college project, i ended up designing a few pages for a medical e-commerce website. None of it felt like a career decision at the time, i was just following what interested me.

Looking back, it was probably the obvious sign.

i wasn't just interested in building things.
i was interested in how people experienced them.

2021-23

Building>>Learning

That curiosity slowly pulled me toward UI and UX. Once i started paying attention, i began noticing design everywhere.

i was making college posters, designing presentation decks, and experimenting with layouts just because something didn’t feel right.Even during our college project, i ended up designing a few pages for a medical e-commerce website. None of it felt like a career decision at the time, i was just following what interested me.

Looking back, it was probably the obvious sign.

i wasn't just interested in building things.
i was interested in how people experienced them.

Oct, 2023

First Internship

That’s when i took it more seriously and got my first internship, where i got real-world exposure, worked with no-code tools like Wix and Framer, and contributed to multiple cross-functional website projects.

Oct, 2023

First Internship

That’s when i took it more seriously and got my first internship, where i got real-world exposure, worked with no-code tools like Wix and Framer, and contributed to multiple cross-functional website projects.

Oct, 2023

First Internship

That’s when i took it more seriously and got my first internship, where i got real-world exposure, worked with no-code tools like Wix and Framer, and contributed to multiple cross-functional website projects.

Oct, 2024

Designing under constraints, not conditions

At Vlippr, i worked on adapting complex workflows for mobile, thinking through responsive behaviour and how design systems maintain consistency across the experience. Around the same time, i also took courses and mentorship from designers like UX Anudeep, which helped me strengthen my fundamentals and design thinking.

Oct, 2024

Designing under constraints, not conditions

At Vlippr, i worked on adapting complex workflows for mobile, thinking through responsive behaviour and how design systems maintain consistency across the experience. Around the same time, i also took courses and mentorship from designers like UX Anudeep, which helped me strengthen my fundamentals and design thinking.

Oct, 2024

Designing under constraints, not conditions

At Vlippr, i worked on adapting complex workflows for mobile, thinking through responsive behaviour and how design systems maintain consistency across the experience. Around the same time, i also took courses and mentorship from designers like UX Anudeep, which helped me strengthen my fundamentals and design thinking.

Jan, 2025

Then the problems got bigger.

In a good way, this phase at devicethread pushed me beyond designing individual screens and into building full product experiences used by international users, primarily US-based hoteliers. i worked across IoT products, dashboards, maps, operational workflows, onboarding, subscriptions, hardware constraints, design systems, and motion, which gradually shifted my focus from “how should this screen look?” to “how should this entire system function in real-world use?” i started thinking in terms of connected systems, how information flows, how decisions are made under pressure, how hardware inconsistencies affect user trust, and how complex operational data can be translated into something clear and actionable. That’s when UX became significantly more meaningful to me, because i realised i wasn’t just designing interfaces anymore, i was designing how people understand and operate complex systems.

Jan, 2025

Then the problems got bigger.

In a good way, this phase at devicethread pushed me beyond designing individual screens and into building full product experiences used by international users, primarily US-based hoteliers. i worked across IoT products, dashboards, maps, operational workflows, onboarding, subscriptions, hardware constraints, design systems, and motion, which gradually shifted my focus from “how should this screen look?” to “how should this entire system function in real-world use?” i started thinking in terms of connected systems, how information flows, how decisions are made under pressure, how hardware inconsistencies affect user trust, and how complex operational data can be translated into something clear and actionable. That’s when UX became significantly more meaningful to me, because i realised i wasn’t just designing interfaces anymore, i was designing how people understand and operate complex systems.

Jan, 2025

Then the problems got bigger.

In a good way, this phase at devicethread pushed me beyond designing individual screens and into building full product experiences used by international users, primarily US-based hoteliers. i worked across IoT products, dashboards, maps, operational workflows, onboarding, subscriptions, hardware constraints, design systems, and motion, which gradually shifted my focus from “how should this screen look?” to “how should this entire system function in real-world use?” i started thinking in terms of connected systems, how information flows, how decisions are made under pressure, how hardware inconsistencies affect user trust, and how complex operational data can be translated into something clear and actionable. That’s when UX became significantly more meaningful to me, because i realised i wasn’t just designing interfaces anymore, i was designing how people understand and operate complex systems.