About me
About me
TL,DR
Previously, I worked in the entertainment industry as an actor and screenwriter for films and theatre plays. Then I found myself drawn towards UX and product design, not as a backup or a pivot, but as an addition, a natural extension of my skills and work. For me, design, screenwriting, and acting walk hand in hand in a holistic way, but take different cross paths when it comes to details. The patterns and processes are similar; the mediums and goals are different.
TL,DR
Previously, I worked in the entertainment industry as an actor and screenwriter for films and theatre plays. Then I found myself drawn towards UX and product design, not as a backup or a pivot, but as an addition, a natural extension of my skills and work. For me, design, screenwriting, and acting walk hand in hand in a holistic way, but take different cross paths when it comes to details. The patterns and processes are similar; the mediums and goals are different.
Things in detail, bit lengthy
Where I’m from:
I was born and brought up in Sullia (PIN: 574239), Mangalore, Karnataka, India. A place inherited with abundant greenery, natural water resources, and a rich culture and rituals, something they say, right, playing in the laps of nature. That’s how someone might feel, or what I feel, by being in my hometown.
My artistic roots:
My BE (Bachelor of Engineering) evenings were well spent practicing theatre with an amateur troupe, and days learning and understanding cinema, writing, acting, and making short films, rather than doing what I was supposed to do in electrical engineering. Also I was scoring pretty well in academics too, that’s why there wasn’t any issue from college or parents regarding other activities. My most favourite explorations during this period were writing for screen and acting; eventually, they themselves became my core skills, even today.
A life in frames:
As I graduated from engineering, I started my career in the film and entertainment industry. I worked as an associate director, screenplay & dialogue writer, actor, and also used to do theatre out of personal urge. The entertainment industry didn’t support me financially,yes, keeping that aside, I learned a lot. I’m saying this in a positive sense. I upskilled a lot in terms of my crafts. Luckily, I met a few very good people, in terms of creativity, craft and human values. Writing for screen and acting—both skills cross paths with each other, and by the universe’s grace, both of them aligned with me easily. Maybe because it’s years of work I had done in my college and even before that (I used to write random short stories and poems and enact cinema characters from my childhood), I had done enough of that without even consciously thinking or doing it with a motive. That’s why and how now it looks easy for me. (Easy doesn’t mean there’s no effort or thought. Easy means the process becomes easy for me, figuring out What and How to write and act, tailored to specific Whens.)
Writing and acting both are not just creative or intuitive skills or art forms. Even though they majorly depend upon intuitiveness or flow state (which applies to all work—from washing dishes to scientific inventions), they are also a pure blend of logical thinking, strategy, and human psychological, emotional, and behavioural understanding. Writing for the screen is pure strategy and human understanding. It involves inversive thinking as well as problem-solving.
The addition, finding design:
Financially, it didn’t support me, so I was in a situation to look into some other career, and I’m being honest here, that’s how I figured out UX design. Till then, I didn’t know about it. When I started looking for some skill that could pay me and get me a corporate job, I juggled and researched a lot about which path to choose: digital marketing, coding, data science, UX design, copywriting. But out of all, UX design looked very near and relatable to my already acquired skills. Then I researched a bit more on it, a broader spectrum of designing digital products opened up. It was very much similar to the way what we keep in mind while writing, i.e., both engagement as well as entertainment (which guarantees money) and the real nuances and aspects of good craft. Here also, we need to balance the best user experience as well as business needs when crafting products.
Getting into design:
I started learning tools by myself and on the way did a course for six months in product design where I met a very good mentor, he is also one of the reasons for me to understand design in a way beyond design. Then I started working full-time and also as a freelancer. You can see where I have worked till now and where I’m currently working in the experience section within the work page.
Design, as I see It:
As I started learning product design, a lot of my understanding changed over time. A lot was similar in terms of patterns and processes to what I already knew in a holistic way, but a lot was different in detail and nuanced ways. Problem-solving is similar, but the medium for which we are doing that is different, and the final goal is also different. This medium and process keep me going, similar to what I feel while acting and writing, the flow state that I’m able to achieve here as well. This work doesn’t feel like working for something, but in reality, yes, I’m working for money. But the work I put in and the skills I’m acquiring don’t need an external push or motivation. This is what I’m talking about, it feels from inside to get into it, learn, and do the work.
Day by day, my understanding of product design is deepening. Today, design has become a third core skill of mine—beside acting and writing. For me, design is a way of living life—whether intentionally or unintentionally, purposefully or accidentally—design is there in everything on this planet. It’s there within our daily life, habits, events, patterns, the way we breathe, the way we talk, the way we walk. Of course, a major portion of it is digital or interface product design, which I’m currently working in. Here, product and experience design comes with constraints, trade-offs, timelines, convincing skills, communication skills, and business understanding—all the core nuanced skills that shape good UX as well as a total product. And it’s not only in digital product design—if we look into life, whatever we do involves all these
Things in detail, bit lengthy
Where I’m from:
I was born and brought up in Sullia (PIN: 574239), Mangalore, Karnataka, India. A place inherited with abundant greenery, natural water resources, and a rich culture and rituals, something they say, right, playing in the laps of nature. That’s how someone might feel, or what I feel, by being in my hometown.
My artistic roots:
My BE (Bachelor of Engineering) evenings were well spent practicing theatre with an amateur troupe, and days learning and understanding cinema, writing, acting, and making short films, rather than doing what I was supposed to do in electrical engineering. Also I was scoring pretty well in academics too, that’s why there wasn’t any issue from college or parents regarding other activities. My most favourite explorations during this period were writing for screen and acting; eventually, they themselves became my core skills, even today.
A life in frames:
As I graduated from engineering, I started my career in the film and entertainment industry. I worked as an associate director, screenplay & dialogue writer, actor, and also used to do theatre out of personal urge. The entertainment industry didn’t support me financially,yes, keeping that aside, I learned a lot. I’m saying this in a positive sense. I upskilled a lot in terms of my crafts. Luckily, I met a few very good people, in terms of creativity, craft and human values. Writing for screen and acting—both skills cross paths with each other, and by the universe’s grace, both of them aligned with me easily. Maybe because it’s years of work I had done in my college and even before that (I used to write random short stories and poems and enact cinema characters from my childhood), I had done enough of that without even consciously thinking or doing it with a motive. That’s why and how now it looks easy for me. (Easy doesn’t mean there’s no effort or thought. Easy means the process becomes easy for me, figuring out What and How to write and act, tailored to specific Whens.)
Writing and acting both are not just creative or intuitive skills or art forms. Even though they majorly depend upon intuitiveness or flow state (which applies to all work—from washing dishes to scientific inventions), they are also a pure blend of logical thinking, strategy, and human psychological, emotional, and behavioural understanding. Writing for the screen is pure strategy and human understanding. It involves inversive thinking as well as problem-solving.
The addition, finding design:
Financially, it didn’t support me, so I was in a situation to look into some other career, and I’m being honest here, that’s how I figured out UX design. Till then, I didn’t know about it. When I started looking for some skill that could pay me and get me a corporate job, I juggled and researched a lot about which path to choose: digital marketing, coding, data science, UX design, copywriting. But out of all, UX design looked very near and relatable to my already acquired skills. Then I researched a bit more on it, a broader spectrum of designing digital products opened up. It was very much similar to the way what we keep in mind while writing, i.e., both engagement as well as entertainment (which guarantees money) and the real nuances and aspects of good craft. Here also, we need to balance the best user experience as well as business needs when crafting products.
Getting into design:
I started learning tools by myself and on the way did a course for six months in product design where I met a very good mentor, he is also one of the reasons for me to understand design in a way beyond design. Then I started working full-time and also as a freelancer. You can see where I have worked till now and where I’m currently working in the experience section within the work page.
Design, as I see It:
As I started learning product design, a lot of my understanding changed over time. A lot was similar in terms of patterns and processes to what I already knew in a holistic way, but a lot was different in detail and nuanced ways. Problem-solving is similar, but the medium for which we are doing that is different, and the final goal is also different. This medium and process keep me going, similar to what I feel while acting and writing, the flow state that I’m able to achieve here as well. This work doesn’t feel like working for something, but in reality, yes, I’m working for money. But the work I put in and the skills I’m acquiring don’t need an external push or motivation. This is what I’m talking about, it feels from inside to get into it, learn, and do the work.
Day by day, my understanding of product design is deepening. Today, design has become a third core skill of mine—beside acting and writing. For me, design is a way of living life—whether intentionally or unintentionally, purposefully or accidentally—design is there in everything on this planet. It’s there within our daily life, habits, events, patterns, the way we breathe, the way we talk, the way we walk. Of course, a major portion of it is digital or interface product design, which I’m currently working in. Here, product and experience design comes with constraints, trade-offs, timelines, convincing skills, communication skills, and business understanding—all the core nuanced skills that shape good UX as well as a total product. And it’s not only in digital product design—if we look into life, whatever we do involves all these
Things in detail, bit lengthy
Where I’m from:
I was born and brought up in Sullia (PIN: 574239), Mangalore, Karnataka, India. A place inherited with abundant greenery, natural water resources, and a rich culture and rituals, something they say, right, playing in the laps of nature. That’s how someone might feel, or what I feel, by being in my hometown.
My artistic roots:
My BE (Bachelor of Engineering) evenings were well spent practicing theatre with an amateur troupe, and days learning and understanding cinema, writing, acting, and making short films, rather than doing what I was supposed to do in electrical engineering. Also I was scoring pretty well in academics too, that’s why there wasn’t any issue from college or parents regarding other activities. My most favourite explorations during this period were writing for screen and acting; eventually, they themselves became my core skills, even today.
A life in frames:
As I graduated from engineering, I started my career in the film and entertainment industry. I worked as an associate director, screenplay & dialogue writer, actor, and also used to do theatre out of personal urge. The entertainment industry didn’t support me financially,yes, keeping that aside, I learned a lot. I’m saying this in a positive sense. I upskilled a lot in terms of my crafts. Luckily, I met a few very good people, in terms of creativity, craft and human values. Writing for screen and acting—both skills cross paths with each other, and by the universe’s grace, both of them aligned with me easily. Maybe because it’s years of work I had done in my college and even before that (I used to write random short stories and poems and enact cinema characters from my childhood), I had done enough of that without even consciously thinking or doing it with a motive. That’s why and how now it looks easy for me. (Easy doesn’t mean there’s no effort or thought. Easy means the process becomes easy for me, figuring out What and How to write and act, tailored to specific Whens.)
Writing and acting both are not just creative or intuitive skills or art forms. Even though they majorly depend upon intuitiveness or flow state (which applies to all work—from washing dishes to scientific inventions), they are also a pure blend of logical thinking, strategy, and human psychological, emotional, and behavioural understanding. Writing for the screen is pure strategy and human understanding. It involves inversive thinking as well as problem-solving.
The addition, finding design:
Financially, it didn’t support me, so I was in a situation to look into some other career, and I’m being honest here, that’s how I figured out UX design. Till then, I didn’t know about it. When I started looking for some skill that could pay me and get me a corporate job, I juggled and researched a lot about which path to choose: digital marketing, coding, data science, UX design, copywriting. But out of all, UX design looked very near and relatable to my already acquired skills. Then I researched a bit more on it, a broader spectrum of designing digital products opened up. It was very much similar to the way what we keep in mind while writing, i.e., both engagement as well as entertainment (which guarantees money) and the real nuances and aspects of good craft. Here also, we need to balance the best user experience as well as business needs when crafting products.
Getting into design:
I started learning tools by myself and on the way did a course for six months in product design where I met a very good mentor, he is also one of the reasons for me to understand design in a way beyond design. Then I started working full-time and also as a freelancer. You can see where I have worked till now and where I’m currently working in the experience section within the work page.
Design, as I see It:
As I started learning product design, a lot of my understanding changed over time. A lot was similar in terms of patterns and processes to what I already knew in a holistic way, but a lot was different in detail and nuanced ways. Problem-solving is similar, but the medium for which we are doing that is different, and the final goal is also different. This medium and process keep me going, similar to what I feel while acting and writing, the flow state that I’m able to achieve here as well. This work doesn’t feel like working for something, but in reality, yes, I’m working for money. But the work I put in and the skills I’m acquiring don’t need an external push or motivation. This is what I’m talking about, it feels from inside to get into it, learn, and do the work.
Day by day, my understanding of product design is deepening. Today, design has become a third core skill of mine—beside acting and writing. For me, design is a way of living life—whether intentionally or unintentionally, purposefully or accidentally—design is there in everything on this planet. It’s there within our daily life, habits, events, patterns, the way we breathe, the way we talk, the way we walk. Of course, a major portion of it is digital or interface product design, which I’m currently working in. Here, product and experience design comes with constraints, trade-offs, timelines, convincing skills, communication skills, and business understanding—all the core nuanced skills that shape good UX as well as a total product. And it’s not only in digital product design—if we look into life, whatever we do involves all these
Things in detail, bit lengthy
Where I’m from:
I was born and brought up in Sullia (PIN: 574239), Mangalore, Karnataka, India. A place inherited with abundant greenery, natural water resources, and a rich culture and rituals, something they say, right, playing in the laps of nature. That’s how someone might feel, or what I feel, by being in my hometown.
My artistic roots:
My BE (Bachelor of Engineering) evenings were well spent practicing theatre with an amateur troupe, and days learning and understanding cinema, writing, acting, and making short films, rather than doing what I was supposed to do in electrical engineering. Also I was scoring pretty well in academics too, that’s why there wasn’t any issue from college or parents regarding other activities. My most favourite explorations during this period were writing for screen and acting; eventually, they themselves became my core skills, even today.
A life in frames:
As I graduated from engineering, I started my career in the film and entertainment industry. I worked as an associate director, screenplay & dialogue writer, actor, and also used to do theatre out of personal urge. The entertainment industry didn’t support me financially,yes, keeping that aside, I learned a lot. I’m saying this in a positive sense. I upskilled a lot in terms of my crafts. Luckily, I met a few very good people, in terms of creativity, craft and human values. Writing for screen and acting—both skills cross paths with each other, and by the universe’s grace, both of them aligned with me easily. Maybe because it’s years of work I had done in my college and even before that (I used to write random short stories and poems and enact cinema characters from my childhood), I had done enough of that without even consciously thinking or doing it with a motive. That’s why and how now it looks easy for me. (Easy doesn’t mean there’s no effort or thought. Easy means the process becomes easy for me, figuring out What and How to write and act, tailored to specific Whens.)
Writing and acting both are not just creative or intuitive skills or art forms. Even though they majorly depend upon intuitiveness or flow state (which applies to all work—from washing dishes to scientific inventions), they are also a pure blend of logical thinking, strategy, and human psychological, emotional, and behavioural understanding. Writing for the screen is pure strategy and human understanding. It involves inversive thinking as well as problem-solving.
The addition, finding design:
Financially, it didn’t support me, so I was in a situation to look into some other career, and I’m being honest here, that’s how I figured out UX design. Till then, I didn’t know about it. When I started looking for some skill that could pay me and get me a corporate job, I juggled and researched a lot about which path to choose: digital marketing, coding, data science, UX design, copywriting. But out of all, UX design looked very near and relatable to my already acquired skills. Then I researched a bit more on it, a broader spectrum of designing digital products opened up. It was very much similar to the way what we keep in mind while writing, i.e., both engagement as well as entertainment (which guarantees money) and the real nuances and aspects of good craft. Here also, we need to balance the best user experience as well as business needs when crafting products.
Getting into design:
I started learning tools by myself and on the way did a course for six months in product design where I met a very good mentor, he is also one of the reasons for me to understand design in a way beyond design. Then I started working full-time and also as a freelancer. You can see where I have worked till now and where I’m currently working in the experience section within the work page.
Design, as I see It:
As I started learning product design, a lot of my understanding changed over time. A lot was similar in terms of patterns and processes to what I already knew in a holistic way, but a lot was different in detail and nuanced ways. Problem-solving is similar, but the medium for which we are doing that is different, and the final goal is also different. This medium and process keep me going, similar to what I feel while acting and writing, the flow state that I’m able to achieve here as well. This work doesn’t feel like working for something, but in reality, yes, I’m working for money. But the work I put in and the skills I’m acquiring don’t need an external push or motivation. This is what I’m talking about, it feels from inside to get into it, learn, and do the work.
Day by day, my understanding of product design is deepening. Today, design has become a third core skill of mine—beside acting and writing. For me, design is a way of living life—whether intentionally or unintentionally, purposefully or accidentally—design is there in everything on this planet. It’s there within our daily life, habits, events, patterns, the way we breathe, the way we talk, the way we walk. Of course, a major portion of it is digital or interface product design, which I’m currently working in. Here, product and experience design comes with constraints, trade-offs, timelines, convincing skills, communication skills, and business understanding—all the core nuanced skills that shape good UX as well as a total product. And it’s not only in digital product design—if we look into life, whatever we do involves all these
TL,DR
Previously, I worked in the entertainment industry as an actor and screenwriter for films and theatre plays. Then I found myself drawn towards UX and product design, not as a backup or a pivot, but as an addition, a natural extension of my skills and work. For me, design, screenwriting, and acting walk hand in hand in a holistic way, but take different cross paths when it comes to details. The patterns and processes are similar; the mediums and goals are different.
TL,DR
Previously, I worked in the entertainment industry as an actor and screenwriter for films and theatre plays. Then I found myself drawn towards UX and product design, not as a backup or a pivot, but as an addition, a natural extension of my skills and work. For me, design, screenwriting, and acting walk hand in hand in a holistic way, but take different cross paths when it comes to details. The patterns and processes are similar; the mediums and goals are different.
TL,DR
Previously, I worked in the entertainment industry as an actor and screenwriter for films and theatre plays. Then I found myself drawn towards UX and product design, not as a backup or a pivot, but as an addition, a natural extension of my skills and work. For me, design, screenwriting, and acting walk hand in hand in a holistic way, but take different cross paths when it comes to details. The patterns and processes are similar; the mediums and goals are different.
TL,DR
Previously, I worked in the entertainment industry as an actor and screenwriter for films and theatre plays. Then I found myself drawn towards UX and product design, not as a backup or a pivot, but as an addition, a natural extension of my skills and work. For me, design, screenwriting, and acting walk hand in hand in a holistic way, but take different cross paths when it comes to details. The patterns and processes are similar; the mediums and goals are different.
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Design brings value, value bonds relationship
Design by Harshith K.
Design by Harshith K.
When I’ve got something pretty to post, it ends up on
If it’s UX or words you’re after, check out
Design brings value, value bonds relationship
Design by Harshith K.
When I’ve got something pretty to post,
it ends up on
If it’s UX or words you’re after, check out
Design brings value, value bonds relationship
Design by Harshith K.