One consent record, six products, 1.47 billion people. How we made consent the gatekeeper for every promotional call and message in India.

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Role

Lead UX Designer

Tanla Platforms

Timeline

Oct 2025 โ€“ present

Partners

TRAI, Airtel, Jio, BSNL, Vi

Tools

Figma, Figma MCP, Claude, Cursor

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1.47B

subscribers covered

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product releases

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~50%

faster design cycles with AI

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01 ยท The problem

Every day, Indian phone users receive a flood of promotional calls and messages they never agreed to. The rules already exist: the TCCCPR 2018 regulations and the DPDP Act 2023 say brands need a person's consent before contacting them. In practice, though, consent was scattered across brands, their marketing partners and individual operators. There was no single record anyone could trust, check or audit.

DigiConsent is the answer: an AI-native, national consent platform built with the regulator and India's major operators. A promotional message or call only goes through if a valid consent exists for it.

What made it hard

Many actors, one record

Brands, their partners, operators, registrars, the regulator and citizens all touch the same consent, with very different jobs and permissions.

Regulation is a design input

Every flow had to be audit-ready and trace back to specific legal requirements.

National scale

Brands arrive with years of legacy consent data that has to be migrated in, not collected again from scratch.


02 ยท Six products, one platform

Our team designed across six connected surfaces, each built for a different user:

Surface Who uses it Core job
Enterprise Portal Brands and their compliance teams Set up brands and lines of business, migrate existing consents, map message templates, track consent health
GTM Partner Portal Aggregators and agencies acting for brands Manage the enterprises they serve, rate cards and onboarding
Channel Owner Portal Operators Oversee enterprises, migrations and commercial set-up on their network
Registrar Console Registrar operations Verify and govern consent records
Regulator Console The regulator Oversight, audit and compliance reporting
Consent Wallet (PWA) Citizens See who holds your consent, and grant, change or revoke it in a few taps

03 ยท The core idea: one consent object

The most important design decision wasn't a screen. Instead of six products with their own data, every surface is a different view of the same consent object:

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Brand

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This gave everyone, from a bank's compliance officer to a citizen, the same vocabulary. A change made in one portal shows up consistently everywhere else. What each role can see or do became a question of permissions, not of separate screens.