He had a Mechanical Engineering degree, a resort management job, and a personal passion for drawing. None of those things were enough on their own.

Akash had a Mechanical Engineering degree. He also had a job — Assistant Manager at a resort. And he had something else: a lifelong interest in drawing, in visual things, in making something that didn't exist before. What he didn't have was a way to connect that interest to a real career.

He started looking at options. UI/UX design kept coming up — a field where creativity and technology actually met, where the things you made were used by real people in real contexts. His cousin had heard about Unlearn Academy. Akash went for a demo class. It resonated. He joined.

He joined the Trivandrum campus in September 2025, studying Graphic Design and UI/UX from Level 1. The early weeks were about building foundations — visual thinking, layout hierarchy, the discipline of designing for someone else's needs rather than your own aesthetic preferences. That shift was the hardest part.

The challenge wasn't the tools. It was the mindset. Akash had spent years thinking about drawing as self-expression. Design, he learned, was something different — it started with a user's problem, not a blank canvas. Layout hierarchy, user flow, the logic underneath a screen before any colour or typeface was applied. Mentors pushed him to slow down and think before opening Illustrator.

By the time he reached Level 2, that thinking had become natural. His portfolio held multiple projects across Graphic Design and UI/UX — not exercises, but documented work built the way agencies build it. When he started working on real client briefs, he understood what the feedback meant. He could take it, apply it, and improve the work without losing himself in it. That skill — receiving critique without deflection — was something the mentors taught explicitly.

His first major client project as an intern left the client impressed. Not by the visuals alone, but by the professionalism of the process: the thinking behind the decisions, the clarity of the deliverables, the speed of turnaround. That standard came directly from the training.

He is now a UI/UX Design Intern at E-Sutra Technologies Private Limited — a private IT company based in Delhi. He handles real client requirements and feedback daily. What he brought from Unlearn wasn't a certificate. It was a way of working.