He sees empathy as the common thread in biotechnology, medicine and design. Whether a person is a patient or a user of a product design, empathy is a vital skill to have in order to understand and apply expertise to a problem.

Before working at outerspace, Pinakesh worked in Japan, starting out in the “production line of corporate product design”, as a UX designer for Toshiba TV interfaces, then moving to laptop and hardware design at Panasonic. 

In a specialist studio at Panasonic, he designed new products with new technologies, including the world’s first high dynamic range, ultra high definition, VR eyeglasses, and the smallest on the market, well before Meta and others started using ‘pancake’ lenses.

As a senior member of outerspace’s design team, Pinakesh works directly with clients on projects that add value to people’s lives across many different sectors, and designs products from the ground up. This includes medical device design and consumer product design.

He doesn’t follow short term design trends. He loves the classic design techniques of Eames and the Bauhaus, where the newness of a design comes from the unique functions of a product. 

He likes to create new design elements from product functions. Depending on the project, he often works with outerspace engineers to define how a product functions and the mechanical details, to then develop a custom design solution.