About

Product Designer. Problem Solver. Systems Thinker.

7+

Years of Experience

97%

Client Retention Rate

35+

Products Shipped

Clarity over complexity. Systems over chaos. Designing scalable experiences that move businesses forward.

I'm Shashikanth Kapikad, a Product Designer based in Mangalore, India, with 7+ years of experience taking products from ambiguous problems to shipped, scalable solutions.

I work across the full product lifecycle, leading stakeholder discovery, defining design strategy, building robust design systems, and collaborating with engineering to ensure what gets built matches what users actually need. My background spans SaaS, B2C marketplaces, enterprise platforms, and mobile across industries including real estate, travel, fintech, and logistics.

What drives me is the belief that great product design isn't about beautiful screens it's about deeply understanding a user's mental model, aligning that with business objectives, and building systems that scale without losing clarity. I treat every design decision as a product decision.

Skills and Expertise

  1. Product Strategy & Roadmap Contribution
  2. End-to-end Product Design Ownership
  3. User Research & Insight Synthesis
  4. Design Systems Architecture & Governance
  5. Stakeholder & Cross-functional Collaboration
  6. Information Architecture & Complex Workflow Design
  7. Usability Testing & Iterative Validation
  8. B2B SaaS · B2C Marketplaces · Enterprise Applications · Mobile Apps

Career

Work Experience

  1. Product Designer

    RC Teraabytes Pvt Ltd - Remote, India | Aug 2025 - Present Owning product design across the full lifecycle — from discovery and strategy through to delivery and system documentation.

  2. Senior UI/UX Designer

    Bix Bytes Solutions Pvt Ltd (CoCoGrid) - Mangalore, India | Oct 2019 - Jul 2025 Led design for 20+ products across SaaS and B2C, building scalable design systems and driving product strategy in close collaboration with PMs and engineering.

  3. UI/UX Designer (Web & Product)

    Trionix Global Pvt Ltd - Mangalore, India | Jul 2017 - Sep 2019 Designed and shipped complex web interfaces for enterprise clients, establishing design processes and UI standards.

RECOGNITION

Industry Recognition

Speaker – “AI in UX”, Design Quest 2024

Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Moodabidre, Mangalore, Karnataka

UX India Conference 2023 Attendee

The Leela Bhartiya City, Bengaluru 6/2, Thanisandra Main Road, Tirumanahalli, Bengaluru 560064

Core Committee Member – Design Quest Community.

Design Quest Community.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certifications

UX Design - Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) Courses

Be10X ai tools workshop

Web & Graphic Design - BDPS Academy.

Let's build something that matters

I'm open to Product Designer and Lead Product Designer roles. full-time or contract. If you're building a product that needs someone who owns the full journey from insight to system to shipped feature, let's talk.

© 2026 Shashikanth Kapikad | All Rights Reserved

Let's build something that matters

I'm open to Product Designer and Lead Product Designer roles. full-time or contract. If you're building a product that needs someone who owns the full journey from insight to system to shipped feature, let's talk.

© 2026 Shashikanth Kapikad | All Rights Reserved

Let's build something that matters

I'm open to Product Designer and Lead Product Designer roles. full-time or contract. If you're building a product that needs someone who owns the full journey from insight to system to shipped feature, let's talk.

© 2026 Shashikanth Kapikad | All Rights Reserved

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