Divya Prabhakar

I build experiences users trust, products that compound in value, and operationalized design cultures that scale.

Currently: Head of Digital Product Design at Form Energy, building energy storage for a clean and reliable grid.

Spending my days on

Designing

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Observing See all
Resources for Product Designers I can't believe are free Resources for Product Designers I can't believe are free Resources I actively rely on to consistently refuel myself with new ways to improve my strategic leadership and design skills as a senior Designer.
Using AI for See all
Why do people keep building event aggregators for the masses, instead of letting the audience build it themselves? Why do people keep building event aggregators for the masses, instead of letting the audience build it themselves? I subscribe to newsletters, check multiple websites, all individually. This is my attempt to build a local event discovery app that actually works — and find out why seemingly no one else has. A build-in-public series by an engineer and mom who is tired of doing this manually. First Steps in Branding: How AI Guided My Indian Cinema Data Blog Launch First Steps in Branding: How AI Guided My Indian Cinema Data Blog Launch Compared AI recommendations to make purposeful branding decisions for my Indian cinema blog's v1 launch.

Spending my nights on

Visualizing See all
Serena Williams Fit-dex: Gotta Find 'em All Serena Williams Fit-dex: Gotta Find 'em All An ongoing effort to catalog every outfit Serena Williams wore at every tournament she participated in: each round, each discipline, each tournament from 1998 to her final match in 2022. What Does a Bollywood Actress Look Like? What Does a Bollywood Actress Look Like? A data visualization examining skin tone patterns across 115 Bollywood actress debuts from 2000–2026, drawn from a larger dataset of thousands of actors and films spanning decades of Hindi cinema.
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Themed Catalogues for Kuch Hai Themed Catalogues for Kuch Hai This is a new idea alongside the weekly newsletter. As I hand-pick each piece of art, I am seeing Kuch Hai: Art from the Indian subcontinent Kuch Hai: Art from the Indian subcontinent Kuch Hai is a weekly, hand-curated newsletter that features South Asian art and artists. It is the
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Montessori Holi Planning Supplies, Setup, and Fun Montessori Holi Planning Supplies, Setup, and Fun There's a surprising gap in toddler-friendly Indian festival resources online. Here's my supplies and setup for a playful Holi celebration.