Shashank Kesarwani
Product Designer
Summary
Product designer with five years across consumer AI, payments and learning products. At SpeakX I designed SpeakX AI, a chat and live voice English learning experience, and rebuilt the checkout and premium funnels to lift paid conversion 38.8% for a product serving 10M+ users. I also built the company's first design system. At Dalvoy I own product design end to end, taking it 0 to 1 and past 4 lakh+ registered users across mobile, tablet and desktop, including the data dense result and answer evaluation experiences learners rely on most.
Work Experience
Product Designer
- Owned product design from 0 to 1, shaping core user journeys and product experiences from early concepts through engineering delivery, grounded in 500+ user interviews with exam aspirants.
- Designed the result and mains answer evaluation experiences, turning dense scoring, accuracy and progress data into the product's most used screen, lifting average session length from 15 to 24 minutes.
- Shipped a single responsive design system across mobile, tablet and desktop, adapting layout and information density to each form factor.
- Partnered directly with the founding team and engineering to define, iterate, and ship ambiguous product initiatives.
- Built AI assisted workflows for rapid prototyping, concept exploration, and marketing creative production, enabling faster design iteration and broader creative testing.
Product Designer
- Designed SpeakX AI, an AI powered English learning experience spanning chat and live voice calls, correcting learners mid conversation.
- Redesigned the UPI first checkout, lifting conversion approximately 3x for the UPI cohort and payment success by 10%.
- Rebuilt the Result Page across four scaled A/B tests: practice starts +19.5%, orders created +36.7%, payment success +30.8%.
- Redesigned the premium and checkout funnel, increasing paid conversion 38.8%, and the membership page, cutting in-app cancellations 8% and Day 0 cancellations 3%.
- Gamified the read-along lesson and ran a four day test at ~2K paid users per bucket per day: Day 0 activation +2.7 points, completion +3.2 points, cancellations -1.7 points.
- Redesigned onboarding for a 6.01% uplift in Day 1 retention, and created and governed SpeakX's first design system: component library, tokens, usage standards and contribution review.
Product Designer
- Owned end to end UX for B2C SaaS products, from research and information architecture through prototyping and engineering delivery.
- Conducted user interviews, usability testing, journey mapping, and competitor analysis to identify navigation issues, contributing to 7-10% higher feature adoption.
UI/UX Designer
- Worked directly with clients through requirement gathering, design reviews, and delivery, including responsive marketing and product websites.
- Designed freelance products alongside agency work, including a fitness application and an order counter web app for a US based client.
Core Expertise
Product Design, Product Strategy, UX/UI Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Data Visualization, AI Product Design, Conversational and Voice Interface Design, User Research, Usability Testing, Competitor Analysis, Rapid Prototyping, Design Systems, Responsive and Multi Platform Design, Growth Design, A/B Testing, Conversion Rate Optimization, Cross Functional Collaboration, AI Assisted Design Workflows
Tools
Figma, FigJam, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Lottie, Rive, Jira, Notion, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Recognition
SpeakX | May 2025
Best Performer of the Month
Mobcoder | Oct 2021
Best Performer of the Year
Education
Institute of Technology & Management | 2017-2021
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science