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Arpit Bhatia

Head of Design • AI-first Designer

Available

Welcome to Forty Eight

Forty Eight is a platform for AI-first, multidisciplinary artists like myself. It's WIP, and while I build it, let me tell you about myself…

Building Agentic Commerce

First Principles Thinking

Systems Design Thinking

Teaching Emotional Intelligence

Drums & Pottery

Bengaluru, KA, IND • Available worldwide

Black and white portrait of a man with a beard and glasses

Arpit Bhatia

Head of Design • AI-first Designer

Available

Welcome to Forty Eight

Forty Eight is a platform for AI-first, multidisciplinary artists like myself.
It's WIP, and while I build it, let me tell you about myself…

Building Agentic Commerce

First Principles Thinking

Systems Design Thinking

Teaching Emotional Intelligence

Drums & Pottery

Bengaluru, KA, IND • Available worldwide

POP Club

Reward-focussed UPI app

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Man sitting in a dimly lit room, wearing a beige shirt and looking contemplative.

Worked with the best

Worked with the best

My design dream-team

AI

Platform

Journeys

Growth

Gamification

Brand

AI Augmentation

A central team enabling AI across Design-Ops

Northstar

Workflow automation and design-tooling

Create and execute AI initiatives and features

Key roles: AI Curators, Vibe Coders, Design Technologists, Generative Media Experts etc.

AI

Platform

Journeys

Growth

Gamification

Brand

AI Augmentation

A central team enabling AI across Design-Ops

Northstar

Workflow automation and design-tooling

Create and execute AI initiatives and features

Key roles: AI Curators, Vibe Coders, Design Technologists, Generative Media Experts etc.

Some more specialist roles brewing in my mind…

Content Designer

Content Designer

Activity Centered Designer

Activity Centered Designer

No-code Specialist

No-code Specialist

Conversational UX Designer

Conversational UX Designer

Spatial Experience Designer

Spatial Experience Designer

Embedded Product UX Designer

Embedded Product UX Designer

UX Researcher

UX Researcher

Performance optimiser

Performance optimiser

A quick career summary

I've worked across industries — ecommerce, social media, travel tech, L&D, and fintech

2026

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

Head of Design

POP Club

Sep '25

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Present

Head of Design

POP Club

Sep '25

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Present

Manager - Product Design

Freo (MoneyTap)

Oct '24

-

Sep '25

Manager - Product Design

Freo (MoneyTap)

Oct '24

-

Sep '25

Lead Product Designer

Freo (MoneyTap)

Apr '23

-

Oct '24

Lead Product Designer

Freo (MoneyTap)

Apr '23

-

Oct '24

Sr Product Designer

Freo (MoneyTap)

Mar '21

-

Apr '23

Sr Product Designer

Freo (MoneyTap)

Mar '21

-

Apr '23

Sr UX Designer

Aware Living & Learning

Feb '20

-

Mar '21

Sr UX Designer

Aware Living & Learning

Feb '20

-

Mar '21

UX/UI Designer

Makers App

Jan '19

-

Feb '20

UX/UI Designer

Makers App

Jan '19

-

Feb '20

UX/UI Designer

New Movies

Dec '17

-

Jan '19

UX/UI Designer

New Movies

Dec '17

-

Jan '19

Visual Designer

GuestHouser

Nov '16

-

Dec '17

Visual Designer

GuestHouser

Nov '16

-

Dec '17

Design principles

My UX strategy borrows from

First principles thinking

Starting with the 'why' – down to the root cause

Breaking problems into their most basic form

Building using only the most fundamental truths

Human emotional dynamics

Distilling human driving-forces down to their most basic fabric

Deciding UX elements to use based on their 'feeling quality'

Predicting user feelings at different points in a user journey

Distilling human driving-forces down to their most basic fabric

Storytelling

Bringing story structure into product flows

Designing UX with story beats and arcs

Ensuring narrative continuity in user journeys

Bringing story structure into product flows

Principles of system design

Designing UX that's abstract, scalable, modular, and idempotent

Creating internal UX tools that automate manual processes

Creating sustainable, progressive work built upon the previous

Designing UX that's abstract, scalable, modular, and idempotent

What I'm listening to

Some playlists I've curated. Happy listening!