How To Design High-Quality UI/UX Tech Products (Microsoft Edge Designer POV) - w/ Tushar

This conversation follows Tushar Gupta from early graphic design and computer science into Georgia Tech's Human-Computer Interaction program and product design at Microsoft Edge. It examines how designers work with engineers and product managers, test changes at browser scale, create useful hierarchy, and approach AI experiences without losing user trust.

Tushar's interest began before he knew the term UX. Watching his older brother code led him to Photoshop, graphic design, and eventually programming. The combination mattered: he wanted to build functional things while thinking carefully about how they looked and how another person would experience them.

He chose a computer-science undergraduate degree partly because product design was not yet a familiar career path in India and creative careers worried his family. Computer science was the safer credential, but he kept applying a design lens to his projects, asking why a feature should work a particular way rather than treating implementation as the whole job.

During college, Tushar contacted designers at leading Indian product companies and showed them a portfolio, which was still unusual among young technical applicants in 2018. That outreach helped him earn a UX internship at Cleartrip and gave him enough direct experience to decide that product design fit him better than a conventional software-engineering path.

He applied to graduate programs, received a scholarship from Georgia Tech, and studied Human-Computer Interaction. During the degree he interned at Google, then interviewed for full-time roles and chose Microsoft because of the product opportunity. He now works on AI experiences for Microsoft Edge, bringing Copilot-style assistance into a product people use every day.