Self-portrait illustrated by hand in Procreate.
I'm Tanvi, a designer and builder, both at once. My practice started in UI/UX: an education tech startup creating SaaS tools and a platform for online creators and small business owners, admin and customer portal websites for a digital forensics company, an interface for a cause-commerce brand. Then AI changed what a solo builder could ship, and I changed what I built. Now I go from an idea to a working, deployed product.
“The handoff between design and engineering is where details go to die. I skip it.”
I care about the person on the other side of the screen more than the screen itself. Good UX is the difference between someone feeling lost and not feeling lost at all. When something doesn't work, I work until it does — meals get delayed, sleep is forgotten, time stands still. My father taught me kaizen when I was young: small, consistent improvements compounding into something significant. It's how I think about craft. And about most things.
Off-screen: always listening to audiobooks while I cook, walk or paint — that's how I've already read 44 books before June. Fascinated by the French language since the fourth grade and I still practice Duolingo every night. Or try to. Daily practice is something I'm working on, building consistency and habits. It's also a design problem I'm exploring, a part of what I'm building on the side.