A bit about me

The long way into design.

Illustrated portrait of Ansith, smiling and looking off to the side

2013 – 2018

It started with photos

At 13, when Facebook and Instagram were still new, I spent hours editing photos for myself and my friends. Filters, color grading, small posters for events.

At 18, I started traveling, and the camera came along. I cut short travel videos with music, transitions and my own color grades.

I didn’t call it design yet, but I was already obsessing over how things looked and felt.

2018 – 2022

Code didn’t click.Design did.

I studied Computer Science and figured out pretty quickly that writing code wasn’t for me. Building things people use was.

So I started teaching myself UX and UI, and designed small things for friends along the way.

My first real project was a freelance redesign of a charity website in my second year.

Then my college principal offered me an internship at his tech startup, redesigning one of their products. It shipped, people liked it, and the internship turned into a full-time job.

The best part came next: I got to redesign the campus app I’d been using as a student to check my own attendance and results.

2022 – 2024

Learning from a bigger table

Learning never felt finished. A year later, I wanted bigger problems and better people to learn from, and that took me to F1studioz, one of India’s leading design agencies.

I worked across industries with a team of talented designers, on products for clients like Nasdaq and Deutsche Telekom.

Consulting taught me to walk clients through a problem, not just hand them screens. Every project added something I could carry to the next one.

Ansith with the F1studioz team at their 10th anniversary

2024 – Now

Carrying it forward at Copods

I carried all of that to Copods, and the learning just kept going. I landed in a room full of creative people and picked up even more craft.

The problems were complex and kept pushing me to think harder. I got my hands on some really nice projects, and a few of them even brought home some achievements.

A lot of learning, a lot of fun. Looking back, it’s one long thread, from editing photos at 13 to now. Every place added a little more to how I design.

The Copods team standing together outside a tiled-roof house

More about me

01Off the clock

The side questsI do for the joy of it

Mostly photos from trips, a few films, and a lot of cat pictures. None of it is for a client.

A dark car interior with glowing red dials and a rain-covered windshield — Rainy drive, playlist on loop

A dark night sky full of stars above blurred treetops — Tried to shoot the stars. Close enough

An aeroplane window showing a wing above clouds at sunset — Window seat supremacy

A thin road cutting through dark forest under low cloud — Driving straight into the clouds

Bare feet on a wooden deck beside a round pool reflecting palm trees — Feet in, phone out

Waves at a beach under a fading blue and pink sky — Stayed for the sunset, obviously

Children and families playing in the surf at a pink and lilac sunset — The sky went full pink mode

A silhouette in calm water facing a peach and lilac sunset — Calm water, but not that calm

Friends floating in an infinity pool above a forested valley at dusk — Pool, friends, valley views. Core memory

02Travel films

Trips,in vertical.

I love turning trips into short films, picking the music, finding the rhythm and cutting it all together. It’s my favourite way to hold on to a place.

03Cats

My most demandingcreative collaborator.

Meet Zoe!! He sits on my laptop when I’m working and won’t leave until I stop and give him attention. He usually wins 🐾

A fluffy blue-eyed kitten held up in two hands, looking down — In his cute boy era

A cream and grey kitten lying on a car dashboard against a blurred garden — Aura farming from day one

A fluffy kitten leaning over the keyboard of an open laptop — Helping me hit the deadline

A fluffy cream kitten asleep on sunlit bedsheets — Sun’s out, Zoe’s out

A cat with closed eyes being scratched between the ears by two hands — A little more to the left

Currently into

AI rabbit holes
ambient playlists
calisthenics

clean eating
kitchen experiments

Ansith on a hillside at sunset, hands pressed together, with tents and mountains behind

Ansith looking out over misty mountains at sunset

Ansith taking a mirror selfie in front of grey lockers

Ansith on a footbridge over a mountain river, taking a photo

Ansith smiling in a striped blue shirt and white trousers at a doorway