Shushant Kumar — Product Design Manager

Craft — seven shipped case studies, 2021 to 2024

Still designing.

My role is increasingly about direction and team, but I stay in the work when the problem earns it. These seven are the hands-on record: airline fare rules, ancillary pricing, banking data, support queues, a fashion listing page read in under a second.

Each one leads with what it moved and what I decided, then goes into the screens. Outcomes are the real ones from the projects, not rounded up.

Case studies

Reverse chronological. Role stated on every one — some of these I owned alone, one I shared.

The redesigned Newme shop page

+15%

conversion · −12% bounce rate

Newme 2024 Lead Product Designer

Optimising the Newme shop page for Gen Z

Eleven specific usability failures on the page where most of a session is spent. I rejected “make it look current” as the brief and rebuilt around the cost of the next decision.

Redesigned international flight search

+200%

international booking value · +23% transactions

Cleartrip 2023 Sr. Product Designer

Redesigning international flight search

20+ interviews, a funnel that leaked hardest at the result page, and three shipped iterations. The hard call was subtraction — defending a short primary list with business and engineering in the room.

CT FlexMax fare selection

21%

average conversion · Flipkart Innovation Award 2023

Cleartrip 2023 Sole designer

CT FlexMax — selling flexibility

Free cancellation on domestic flights. Sold as a fare tier rather than an add-on, because as a checkbox it competes with a price the traveller already anchored on and loses.

Cleartrip Support home

~10s

to self-serve a cancellation or reschedule

Cleartrip 2022 Sole designer

Cleartrip Support — help that resolves

Built with the CX team and the agents themselves. I narrowed scope to the two highest-volume requests rather than building a general-purpose help surface.

Cleartrip Bus seat selection

5 days

two designers, booking and post-booking

Cleartrip 2022 One of two designers

Cleartrip Bus — booking and what comes after

Seats, amenities, policies and reviews on one screen instead of a stepped flow — accepting a denser screen so nobody holds the previous answer in their head.

Power Center dashboard

4 views

activation, engagement, retention, revenue

Zeta 2021 Sole designer

Power Center — insight without a data team

An analytics dashboard for operators. Comprehension over completeness: deciding which single metric earns the headline on each view, and keeping one filter model across all of them.

Report Center catalog

Catalog

treated as the product, not the viewer

Zeta 2021 Sole designer

Report Center — reports someone can find

A BI tool where the real product is the shelf. A report nobody can find has no value however good the numbers in it are, and browsing is what finance teams actually do.

Also shipped

Without a full write-up. Happy to talk through any of it.

Happy to walk through the parts that didn't work, too.

shushant0657@gmail.com

Open to Design Manager and Head of Design conversations