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About Me

Designer, researcher, and relentless problem-solver.

Husen Mandli
7+Years

I believe great design is invisible — it simply feels right. Over seven-plus years I've had the privilege of working with early-stage startups building from scratch and growing brands reimagining their existing products.

My process starts with deep empathy for users and ends with interfaces that are not just beautiful but measurably effective. I'm equally comfortable in a discovery call and in Figma, taking a project from a rough idea to shipped, working code.

12
Industries designed for
32
Long-term repeat clients
24h
Average response time
1
Person, start to finish
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Experience

Career Timeline

2023 — PRESENT
Independent UI/UX Designer & Developer
Gujarat, India · Freelance
2020 — 2023
UI/UX Designer · Fintech & SaaS clients
Remote · Contract
2018 — 2020
UI/UX Designer · Agency projects
Gujarat, India · Full-time
2016 — 2018
Junior Designer, learning the craft
Gujarat, India · Independent

I don't just design screens.
I design the moment right before
someone feels understood.

Toolkit

Tools I Use Daily

Figma
Figma
Framer
Framer
Sketch
Sketch
Principle
Principle
Protopie
Protopie
Maze
Maze
Mixpanel
Mixpanel
Notion
Notion
Slack
Slack
Webflow
Webflow
After Effects
After Effects
Hotjar
Hotjar
Right Now

What I'm Up To

Building
A design-system starter kit
For my own projects, open-sourcing later this year
Learning
Motion design fundamentals
Trying to make interfaces feel more alive
Reading
Shape Up, by Basecamp
Rethinking how I scope and ship client work
Beliefs

Design Philosophy

01
Simplicity is earned, not assigned
The simplest interface survived the most rigorous editing. Every element should fight for its place. Complexity is a debt that users always pay.
02
Data without empathy is just noise
Numbers tell you what users do; conversations tell you why. I pair analytics with qualitative research — real insights live in the gap between the two.
03
Ship, measure, refine — repeat
Perfect design never shipped beats good design shipping now and improving through real feedback. Design is a hypothesis; users are the experiment.
Off Duty

Beyond the Screen

A few things about me that don't fit on a resume. Hover a card to flip it.

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Fuel
Filter coffee, no sugar. Non-negotiable before 10am.
🎧
On loop
Lo-fi and rain sounds, playing on repeat while I design.
📷
Off-screen
Street photography on weekends, mostly overexposed on purpose.
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Based in
Gujarat, India — usually online across a few time zones for clients.
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Unwinds with
Old-school platformers — currently replaying a childhood favorite.
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Reading
One design book and one fiction book, always in parallel.
Work Together

Ready to create something extraordinary?

Tell me about your project and let's figure out how I can help.

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