Rajib Ghosh
Global Product Design Leader | Innovation Strategist | Visionary | Coach
Empowering individuals and teams to invent and realize extraordinary new possibilities.
As a visionary, I am driven by curiosity and a passion for imagining a better future. I see opportunities where others see challenges and connect ideas across different fields to create meaningful solutions. With over 25 years of experience in design, innovation, and strategy, I focus on improving lives while helping businesses grow. I believe in purpose-driven work, using empathy to design solutions that truly meet people’s needs. I stay optimistic in the face of uncertainty, adapt to change, and see obstacles as chances to grow. As a leader, I inspire teams to think creatively, take risks, and experiment with new ideas, fostering collaboration and innovation. I’m committed to learning, mentoring future leaders, and turning bold ideas into real, impactful change to create a better, more connected world.
Over the past 25 years, I’ve had the privilege of working across diverse organizations and collaborating with few exceptional human-beings. Through this journey, I’ve cultivated a unique blend of knowledge, skills, and mindset—not merely acquired through information but deeply shaped by experiential learning, practice, and even failure. While the learning never stops, these experiences now enable me to empower others in meaningful ways through the following services.
Strategic Innovation and Culture
Empowering organizations to stay competitive and unlock growth opportunities by solving challenges through a unique blend of human-centered and business methodologies.
Strategic and Creative Workshops
Driving outcomes through workshops that align teams, spark collaboration, and drive action using tools like co-creation and LEGO® Serious Play® to craft effective strategies.
Design Strategy and Execution
Driving business success by aligning design strategy with execution, integrating creative vision, user insights, and agility to deliver impactful solutions and enhance user experiences.
Coaching and Mentoring
Helping individuals and teams unlock their true potential through coaching and mentoring, fostering growth, enhancing capabilities, and driving impactful outcomes.
Case Studies
Work Experience
Director of Design
reQall Inc.
Dec 2006 - Nov 2013 · 7 yrs
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Directed cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered strategies and impactful solutions, reining designs for optimal usability.
User-Centered Product Approach: Led the product direction with a strong emphasis on user-centered design principles, ensuring that product decisions were consistently driven by user needs and expectations to create impactful solutions.
Comprehensive Product Experience Design: Designed end-to-end product experiences, integrating strategy, interaction design, visual design, and user testing to deliver products that were intuitive, efficient, and visually compelling for end-users.
Team Management and Coordination: Built and directed a diverse team in India comprising design, technology, QA, and support professionals, ensuring seamless collaboration and alignment across departments to deliver exceptional user experiences.
Worked with Prof. Don Norman: Worked closely with Professor Don Norman, leading the design for one of the first multimodal intelligent digital assistants as early as 2006, while also working closely with him to refine and shape the overall product experience, leveraging his expertise in user experience design to elevate the product’s usability and functionality.
Senior Interaction Designer
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Nov 2004 - Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Established UX team, integrated design standards, and led interface design and user testing, fostering a user-centered culture.
Establishment of UX Team and Usability Lab: Played a key role to the foundation of Oracle's first UX team and Usability Lab in India, laying the groundwork for design innovation and enhanced user experience practices.
Design Standards and Principle Implementation: Led the integration of design principles and usability standards into Oracle’s development processes, ensuring that every product iteration adhered to the highest standards of user experience and functionality.
Interface Design and User Testing: Designed key interface components, focusing on usability, functionality, and visual appeal. Led user testing sessions to validate design concepts and enhance product usability.
Training and Mentoring on Usability Best Practices: Trained and mentored cross-functional teams in India on usability best practices, cultivating a culture of user-centered design and elevating the overall design competency.
Key Contributor to Oracle’s Design Legacy in India: Part of the driving team responsible for establishing Oracle’s first design center and first Usability Lab in India.
Fueled by purpose and driven with intentionality, design is a courageous and imaginative act to invent extraordinary new possibilities.
Courage
Design is courageous. To create exceptionally good design, we must dare to venture into the unknown, challenge conventions, and imagine possibilities that others have yet to experience.
Care
Design is caring. Good design is crafted with precision and attention to detail. It demands mastery of materials, tools, and processes. Good design passionately cares about its experiencer.
Context
Design is contextual. Context is the cornerstone of good design, shaping outcomes that are meaningful and relevant. Understanding the environment, needs, and nuances makes design intuitive and impactful.
Connection
Design is connecting. Good design connects its creator and experiencer as much as it connects deeply with the experiencer. This essential connection ensures purpose, fulfillment and meaning.
Clarity
Design creates clarity. Good design simplifies complexity with intention and precision, empowering people to connect with what truly matters, sparking inspiration, and creating impactful, lasting experiences.
Celerity
Design is timely. Good design comes from enabling swift iterations, agile thinking, and timely innovation, fueled by curiosity and collaboration, that transforms bold ideas into impactful and enduring realities.
Photography, Typography, Art and AI
I am deeply touched, moved, and inspired by art in any form. My personal exploration spans photography, experimental typography, and art, where I find immense joy in blurring the lines between these forms to create unique expressions. More recently, with the advent of Generative AI, I have ventured into the fascinating intersection of AI-driven creativity and human artistry. This collaboration aims to push boundaries and forge new paradigms in art.
Here are some of my works that reflect this ongoing journey of exploration and creation.
