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About Akhil Jayakumar · Vancouver, BC

Part designer, part storyteller, fully obsessed with how people respond.

I’m Akhil, a multidisciplinary creative in Vancouver. I combine design thinking, visual communication and content creation with a first-hand understanding of how audiences behave, because I’ve built one myself.

Based in
Vancouver, BC
Practice
UX · Brand · Content · Web
Studied
Langara College · Amrita University
Elsewhere
Instagram · LinkedIn

Proof, in public

An audience built from zero. Organically.

No ads and no shortcuts on @wakeupakhill. Just real people deciding, in a few seconds, whether something deserved their attention.

30K+

Followers, grown organically from zero

20M+

Organic views across short-form video

1M+

Views on multiple individual videos

The short version

Two sides of the same craft.

01

Trained in design and development.

I started on the structured side of digital work: a Master of Computer Applications at Amrita University, then a Post Degree Diploma in Web and Mobile App Design and Development at Langara College.

It gave me the foundations: UX process, interface design, visual systems, and an understanding of how things actually get built.

UX/UI · Product design · Web & mobile · Front-end

02

Tested in public.

Then I started creating as @wakeupakhill and grew it organically from zero to 30,000+ followers, with 20M+ views and multiple videos passing a million.

No brief and no client. Just real people deciding in a few seconds whether something deserved their attention. That feedback loop changed how I design.

Short-form video · Storytelling · Social strategy · Audience growth

03

Where it comes together.

Now I work across both worlds: designing products and brands with an instinct for what makes people engage, and making content with a designer’s sense of structure.

AI-assisted workflows help me explore and produce faster, while the thinking and the taste stay human.

Brand · Content strategy · Web · AI-assisted workflows

What I bring

Range, connected.

Each skill sharpens the others. Content instinct improves the UX, UX thinking improves the brand, and the brand gives the content a voice.

  1. 01

    UX/UI & product design

    Research, flows, wireframes and polished interfaces.

  2. 02

    Brand & visual design

    Identity systems, typography, layout and art direction.

  3. 03

    Content & short-form video

    Short-form storytelling built for how people actually watch.

  4. 04

    Social strategy & growth

    Formats, hooks and consistency that grow an audience organically.

  5. 05

    Web & digital

    Web design, front-end and digital marketing, with AI-assisted workflows.

Education

The foundations.

Post Degree Diploma

Web and Mobile App Design and Development

Langara College, Vancouver

Master’s degree

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

Amrita University

Want to see how this thinking shows up in real work, or build something together?

See the work

Let’s talk

Email
akhiljin1998@gmail.com
Instagram
@wakeupakhill
Based in
Vancouver, BC