Anand nagrick
– I’m Anand Nagrick, an end-to-end digital craftsman and product design leader who creates products and services for everyone, not just for the digitally savvy.
– I'm currently working across global B2B and B2C products at Airalo, an eSIM specialist global store, where I am establishing a diverse and collaborative product design team.
– This website is a little teaser and outline of my approach as a experienced Principal Product Designer from the UK.
Working with Anand meant I could rely on a Lead who could function autonomously, inspire his team, and self-start. He's a superb mentor and educator, of both designers and broader disciplines. Anand is able to strike that fine balance of creating parity between user and business needs, and championing the development of open and accessible products.
He's a great collaborator and instigator; if he sees an opportunity for people to learn or collaborate with one another he'll use one of his many (engaging) workshops to bring people together to dig into the best possible, achievable solution.
Anand's always looking to level up, not just the quality of the work but his own abilities, too.
TL;DR he's a brilliant designer and leader...his jokes though, they'll get you through a sluggish afternoon.
Anand is a user champion, through and through. He consistently helped bring the team back to the user every step of the way to ensure we kept our eye on solving real problems. Anand did this with a large multi-disciplinary team, engaging and collaborating with everyone from engineers, other designers, product managers and research teams. He created a space that invited wild ideas to be free, and then ultimately refined into something that moved us closer to business success.
Anand's work is informed, user-centric and of the highest technical quality I have seen. The bonus? Anand can crack some pretty gnarly dad jokes and always knows how to get the team laughing, even during the difficult times.
Anand is a one-of-a-kind product designer. He's a great leader, and working with him is a privilege. When he joined WhereIsMyTransport, he levelled up the design team, and as we have grown, he has ensured that we are consistently challenging our creative thinking, elevating our designs and putting in place processes that mean we can get the best out of the wider team.
He can naturally bring a multidisciplinary team together and get the best out of them, making everyone feel heard and valued; he makes this look easy, which it isn't. Anand has made async working fun by putting together workshops/jams and encouraging people to engage, meaning everyone understands our user problems and is trying their best to solve them.
Along with all of this, Anand is just a genuinely good human. I really enjoy working with him, he's taught me a lot and been there to support me. He's super chill and fun to be around. His jokes are the best.
Anand has a unique combination of skills that made him pivotal to our project's success. His deep knowledge of the design craft, with the maturity and foresight to anticipate how different techniques can add value to our mission, coupled with strategically bringing different pieces of the experience together ensured our client had a clear understanding of how our product strategy translated into designs and how the product itself can add value to customers and the business respectively.
The project we worked together on really highlighted the power of a switched-on and tech-savvy designer. He has the ability to know when to really push back on decisions he knows are wrong or are diminishing to the quality for a product. Anand works quickly and methodically, never missing a beat whilst producing exactly what you wanted first time around and three other variations to really help understand what the options are. Anand is a gentlemen, a team-player, an absolute laugh-riot and is easily up there as one of the best I've ever worked with.
His attention to detail and passion for flawless experience design, means that you can trust that anything he works on is going to be underpinned with solid rationale and his years of experience are evident in his work. Anand is clearly a fantastic designer, but its also his commitment, his directness and ability to see the fun in each project, that also makes him great to work with.
Anand has been a real pleasure to work with, delivering highly creative work that fits the brief perfectly. He brings an excellent mix of IA, UX, creativity and service design thinking to the work. He has a great ability to quickly understand the brief and context, and draw on his experience to help improve and develop concepts.