Akshat Mishra
Lead Product Designer for Agentic Experiences at Docusign
San Francisco product designer at Docusign with a computer science and human-computer interaction background from the University of Michigan School of Information. He works at the seam between design and AI, prototyping and shipping production code with AI tools, and previously worked on AI products at Appen.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues designers should build, not just specify — using AI tools to carry an idea from prototype to shipped code.
- Advocates writing down product and design judgment in a constraint document (his "taste.md" idea) so AI tools produce work that fits rather than generic output.
- Talks about how AI changes team dynamics and the speed at which product decisions get made.
- From his conference talk: a workflow for shipping agentic features that are useful instead of "AI slop".
Accomplishments
- Lead Product Designer for Agentic Experiences at Docusign, after about four years there.
- Previously worked on AI products at Appen.
- Speaker at UXCON Vienna, Future Builders and the AI Builders Global Conference 2026.
- Maintains a public portfolio of shipped work, including In-Platform Audit, Sair and the Appen rebrand.
Papers & key writings
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