Something rare is being built

Every great product
begins with the right
question.

Studio Square Root is a multidisciplinary design consultancy. We connect strategy, craft, and human insight to find the root of your most complex challenges. We open our doors soon.

Connecting the dots

One studio. Every layer of the problem. One clear answer.

Each of us has spent years inside the world's most complex design problems — building tools that millions of creatives use at Adobe and Microsoft, designing compliance platforms at JP Morgan and KPMG, shaping enterprise UX strategy at McKinsey, ServiceNow, and Procore, directing photography and visual identities for brands, and designing industrial products that have been used across four decades.

Separately, these are impressive careers. Together, they form something rarer: a studio where the full spectrum of design thinking — from enterprise experience strategy and interaction design all the way to photography, art direction, and industrial design — operates as a single, integrated intelligence.

"We believe great design begins at the root — mapping the systems and services that shape human experience before a single solution is drawn. By understanding how people, processes, and touchpoints interconnect, we distill complex, multidimensional challenges into coherent, holistic answers. The √ is our mark of quality. A symbol of clarity, earned through deep systems thinking."

We have worked with aviation companies in the UK transforming how procurement operates at scale, healthcare startups making medical care accessible for senior citizens, financial insight companies in South Africa, and enterprise SaaS organisations across India and Europe. Our work has always been global — rooted in India, reaching across borders.

What we are building now is where all of those dots finally connect.

What we do

Eight disciplines.
One cohesive intelligence.

Experience Strategy

Aligning product vision with business goals, roadmapping, and UX auditing at an enterprise level.

Strategy

Interaction Design

High-fidelity, research-informed UX for complex B2B platforms, SaaS products, and consumer experiences.

Craft

UX Research

Deep-dive user testing, ethnographic research, and evidence-based design decision-making.

Insight

Design Systems

Scalable, maintainable design system architecture that powers platform growth and engineering coherence.

Systems

Photography & Art Direction

Visual storytelling, lifestyle photography, styling, and art direction that makes brands unmistakably themselves.

Visual

Industrial & Product Design

Physical product design rooted in human factors, manufacturing reality, and long-term design thinking.

Industrial

Visual & Brand Identity

Brand strategy, identity systems, and visual design that builds recognition and lasting brand equity.

Brand

Human-Centred Design

Design thinking facilitation, co-creation workshops, and HCD solutions that solve real-world problems.

HCD

The people

Built by practitioners,
not generalists.

Studio Square Root unites enterprise UX leadership, interaction design, photography, industrial design, and research — grounded in experience at organisations shaping the world.

Founding Members

Drupad Mistry

Drupad Mistry

Co-Founder · Principal Design Strategist

18+ years of experience

UX strategy & design leadership across McKinsey, ServiceNow, and Procore. Master's in Interaction Design, Domus Academy Milan. Visiting faculty and jury member at leading design institutions across India.

Experience StrategyEnterprise SaaSDesign SystemsAI Platforms
Aakash Joshi

Aakash Joshi

Co-Founder · Principal Visual Strategist

17+ years of experience

Product & interaction design across Ivanti and Mindtree. NID post-graduate with deep expertise in B2B platform design, visual systems, and brand strategy.

Interaction DesignVisual Design & StrategyNID

Core & Permanent Consultants

Neeraj Mistry

Neeraj Mistry

UX Design · Fintech & Strategy

10+ years

Experience across JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, and FactSet. MIT Institute of Design. Design thinking facilitation and financial domain UX.

FintechDesign Thinking
Hiral Makwana

Hiral Makwana

Art Director · Photographer

16+ years

NID-trained photographer and art director with 16 years of experience in lifestyle photography, visual merchandising, and brand styling.

PhotographyArt DirectionNID
Nishita Mistry

Nishita Mistry

Visual Designer · Photographer

5+ years

Creative producer and visual designer with roots in fine arts. Brings a painterly sensibility to brand and digital visual communication.

Visual DesignPhotography

Beyond the core team, we operate a curated pool of specialist collaborators. Researchers, motion designers, content strategists, and domain experts — assembled per engagement to give your project the exact depth it requires. More minds. More perspectives. Better roots.

Specialist pool
Bhargav Mistry

Mentor · Advisor · Guide

Bhargav Mistry

Design Educator · Industrial Design Visionary

A founding-generation Indian designer and the guiding force behind Studio Square Root. Bhargav's career spans over five decades of design practice, education, and industry leadership — from early work on computers at ORG Systems in 1980, to building design culture at institutions that have shaped Indian design.

He designed and fabricated several payload equipment for ISRO, contributing to India's space application programme — a testament to the precision, rigour, and engineering depth he brings to every endeavour. He also led and transformed Secure Meters' energy meter designs, shaping a wide range of products over decades into an industry benchmark.

He brings to the studio not just knowledge, but decades of industry expertise and wisdom — the kind that has shaped institutions, built lasting products, and quietly guided a generation of Indian designers toward asking better questions.

LET'S WORK TOGETHER

Curious about what
we've built?

Our deeper work and case studies are shared with the right people, in the right context. If you're evaluating a design partner or exploring how we can help — write to us.

studiosquareroot@gmail.com

We'll follow up with a calendar invite to walk you through our work.

Want to see the work behind the names? Write to us at studiosquareroot@gmail.com and we'll set up a private briefing.