Akshay DhoreProduct Design Technologist
THE LAB

Projects, studies
and experiments.

Everything I make, in one place: full case studies, team projects, earlier product work and the studies still taking shape.

01 · CLIENT WORK

At scale, these stop being
separate problems.

Product design for AI, platforms and services — with the design systems, data visualisation and research underneath.

AT&T through Xcaliber · two engagements with Deloitte through SCADpro

02 · OPEN SOURCE

So I gave the system away.

One Li8 is published, installable and still maintained. No client, no brief — just the system I wanted to exist.

03 · ACADEMIC

School is where I got to be wrong on purpose.

Studio, capstone and foresight work at SCAD — including a project that went on to win a 2025 European Product Design Award.

The Apple mark on a cone of possible futures fanning from one point, two paths forking late into four endings
SBIZ 742 · STRATEGIC FORESIGHT · SCENARIO PLANNING

Designed for Tomorrow

An Apple-focused foresight project. Four futures from one brand question — five years and twenty, each with a conventional path and a black swan. Both branches share the same setup, rising action and turning point, so the only thing that changes is where it lands.

04 · PERSONAL

Nobody asked for these.

Things I started because I wanted to see them finished — plus the earlier product work, and the studies still taking shape.

BEHANCE · EARLIER WORK

Before any of this had a process.

Concept work from before grad school. A beauty retailer’s showroom rebuilt for the metaverse. A shopkeeper’s entire ledger folded into one thumb. A mall that finally tells you where to go. No research budget, no stakeholders, no design system — just the part I have never stopped liking: take a whole problem, draw the whole answer, show your reasoning.

All on Behance ↗

IN THE WORKSHOP

Motion is the next system.

Static states are the easy half. What a component does between them — how it settles, what it carries over, what it refuses to animate — is the part most systems leave undocumented. That is what I am working through now, on this site first.

WHAT I KEEP COMING BACK TO

Interfaces that survive contact with real data.

Every project on this page failed the same way first: it looked right on a clean dataset and fell apart on a real one. The studies still taking shape are all some version of that — density, latency, missing values, and the hundredth screen rather than the first.

Behance

Open on Behance ↗