Punchcut is expanding its AI prototyping application.

Punchcut Expands AI Prototyping Application

Punchcut, a design and innovation agency that helps companies unlock their growth potential through human-centered artificial intelligence (AI), announced the appointment of Akshat Srivastava as Director of Design Engineering. Srivastava will lead the growing AI Prototyping and Development application, bringing together user experience (UX) strategy, technical R&D, and AI-based design systems to help clients deliver scaled intelligent products.

Punchcut's Chief Design Technologist, Srivastava has managed design engineering and innovation strategy for clients such as Google, Samsung, Amazon, and Ford. By specializing in generative AI, spatial computing, and multimodal interfaces, he guides organizations in transforming design visions into production-ready systems.

Punchcut's CEO Ken Olewiler stated, "Every company is facing the challenge of AI transformation and they need elite experts to guide them on this journey. Akshat's leadership strengthens our ability to create AI experiences that are not only technologically advanced but also provide profound human experiences for our clients."

The expansion of Punchcut’s AI Prototyping and Development application is based on its expertise in agentic AI. This represents a new wave of intelligence capable of independent planning, reasoning, tool use, and coordinating in multi-agent environments. As this evolution necessitates a new design guide, experiences are shifting from predictable and deterministic screens to fluid, intention-driven collaborations. These experiences need to be supported by interfaces that can dynamically negotiate the goals of users, AI agents, and connected services, and are adaptable, explainable, and emotionally resonant. Punchcut’s expanded application designs experiences that provide the perfect balance between emotional resonance, personalization, and scalability to help companies manage these changes.

Akshat Srivastava remarked, "Designing core technology with a particular understanding and practical authority has become more critical than ever. Our deep expertise in prototyping at production quality allows us to genuinely feel the next generation of interfaces and test their behaviors with precision and rigor. This hands-on, build-to-learn approach is at the heart of our AI Prototyping and Development application."