Akshay Desai
Head of Product Design
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Product design leadership

I turn ambiguity into working systems.

I lead product design at ACTO, a life-sciences platform used by more than 50,000 people across 70-plus enterprise customers. What consistently pulls me in is the messy middle — where strategy meets execution, where good design decisions fail because the systems underneath them were never thought through, and where teams need structure more than inspiration.

I design with an awareness of code, constraints and scale — not to replace developers, but because design does not end at the canvas. The best work I have done happened when design, product thinking and implementation were treated as one continuous problem.