UI/UX Designer · AI-Native
I design AI products people can actually trust.
MBS in UX from Rutgers, graduated January 2026. Co-founded Lawm, won the AWS Track at the Rutgers Health Hackathon. I design the product, then build the front end. Available now.
70 → 95% task success, RCSB PDB 48 hrs to a winning clinical tool 1 co-founded startup
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Selected work
01 — 06MedScor AI
The hard problem wasn’t the UI — it was making AI feedback feel authoritative without being overconfident. Designed end-to-end in 48 hours.
NeuraNest
Co-founded a startup building smart glasses that catch sensory overload before it becomes a meltdown. I built the brand, the pitch, and the go-to-market.
RCSB Protein Data Bank
Science’s most-used protein database had a help section with 40+ unlabeled links. We rebuilt it into 8 categories, and task success jumped.
RU Radar
Six students told us they used the campus bus app. Then we watched them open Google instead. That gap became the whole study.
Google Maps
We weren’t redesigning Google Maps — we were evaluating it rigorously. Four methods, 14 tasks, one pattern: it loses people whenever a task takes more than one menu.
Plateful
24 interviews about meal planning, one counterintuitive finding: people don’t want more recipes. They want fewer, better decisions. Designed, tested with 10 users, and polished to final screens.
About
Letting you inI'm Aashish. I design products, then build the front end to find out whether the design actually holds up.
That second half comes from where I started — a computer science degree before I ever called myself a designer. The engineering never left. It turned into a habit of pushing a design past the Figma file until it's running in a browser, because that's usually where I find out what I got wrong.
MBS, User Experience Design — Rutgers University, 2024–2026
B.Tech, Computer Science — Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune
1st place, AWS Track — Rutgers Health Hackathon 2025, out of 44 teams
New York, NY — open to relocation
My design philosophy
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Three things at once
Good design sits between what people actually do, what a business can sustain, and what the technology will let you ship. I've spent enough time on each of those to know when one of them is quietly being ignored.
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Why, not what
I ask a lot of questions, mostly about why. Watching someone use a clumsy workaround tells me less than finding out what made the workaround worth building in the first place.
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Build it to find out
AI is part of my daily setup rather than something I'm experimenting with. It shortens the distance between an idea and something a user can hold, which means I get to test more of my assumptions and keep fewer of them on faith.
Contact
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