Product Design
From the first messy idea to a polished interface.
Hey — I’m Apeksha.
I’m a designer and frontend engineer in Kathmandu, and co-founder of Aurora Studios.
Three-odd years of this now: designing interfaces, then building them. Figma in one window, React in the other.
The part I like best is taking something half-explained in a chat and having it exist a few weeks later.
How I got here
I design the thing, then I build it.
I started with design because I liked figuring out how things should look and feel. Then I got curious about what happened after the design was finished. So I learned to code.
Now I do both — designer and engineer, moving between Figma and the browser, thinking about the experience and the implementation together.
I care about clear interfaces, good typography, thoughtful interactions, and products that don’t make people work harder than they need to.
And I work better with music on.
How I can help
Engineering
Taking a good design and making it work in the real world.
Design + Build
The full thing. If you need someone who can think through the product, design it, and then actually build it, that’s where I come in.
Things I’ve learned along the way
Make it useful before making it pretty.
Polish on top of a confusing flow is just a better-looking confusing flow.
If you can build it, you design it differently.
Knowing what a decision costs to implement changes which decision you make.
The tiny details are usually not tiny.
Empty states, error messages, the loading moment — that’s most of the experience.