FIG.04 — Background / Jaipur → Nottingham → London


Engineer by training.
Designer by obsession.


Biography

Electronics engineer turned product designer. Same discipline, different failure modes.

I find where products leak — users, revenue, trust — and remove the leak at system level. Jaipur → Metafic → Lead Product Designer at Firstcry Middle East → MSc HCI at Nottingham → freelance in London. Open to full-time roles.

At Firstcry Middle East I led UI/UX for the region — redesigning the Product Details Page and making the case for, then building, a Figma design system to replace a drifting Adobe XD library. Before that, Metafic, where I learned to translate business goals into user-facing designs. Then an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction at Nottingham, because I wanted my instincts to have evidence behind them.

Now I'm freelancing in London — client work plus Lumen, my self-initiated EV charging concept — and open to full-time product design roles.

Off the clock: Formula 1 (strategy calls, not just drivers), One Piece, and a camera that keeps me honest about composition. My design mantra comes straight from the Grand Line: “As long as I'm alive, there are infinite chances.”

Portrait of Kshitij Khandelwal
  1. Aug '19 – May '23

    B.Tech Electronics

    LNMIIT — systems thinking foundation.

  2. Feb '21

    Shift to design

    Systematic thinking, pointed at humans.

  3. Aug '22 – Dec '23

    Product Designer, Metafic

    First full-time role — business goals to UI.

  4. Jan '24 – Mar '25

    Lead Product Designer, Firstcry ME

    Design system + PDP redesign, ME market. Dubai, then remote from Nottingham alongside the MSc.

  5. Sep '24 – Sep '25

    MSc HCI, Nottingham

    Research methods & behavioural science.

  6. Apr '25 – now

    Freelance, London

    Client work + Lumen. Open to full-time roles.

Life beyond the canvas

FIG.05 — 35mm & 51.5°N


Design is freedom, but life is the ultimate adventure. Cooking a serious feast, binge-watching essential docs, plotting the next passport stamp — and when I'm not around, I'm probably staring at the clouds, resetting the internal compass for the next creative surge.

Kshitij in profile against a city skyline at dusk
A desk at night — two monitors and a laptop, design files open across all three
Photography by Kshitij — rolling hills
Photography by Kshitij — a waterfall
Kshitij on the steps of a stone building, beneath a tall arched door
Photography by Kshitij — sunflowers
Photography by Kshitij — autumn woods

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