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/03The human
Hi, I'm

UI/UX designer & engineer based in India. I bridge the gap between Figma and production — shipping interfaces with intent, motion that means something, and the kind of detail you only feel after the fifth visit.

Shiva Kumar Kummari — UI/UX designer and engineer
Shiva Kumar · b. III·V·MM · Indiahi.

I'm a designer who got tired of throwing Figma files over the wall. So I learned to build. Now I work the loop end-to-end — brief from marketing, research, strategy, iterate, prototype, test, ship the frontend, and (with my dev team's guidance) deploy it.

At Turtil, that loop powers my day-job — the in-progress Campus Management System. For the marketing sites at turtil.co and parentz.app, I ran the same loop solo: designed each one alone, deployed each one myself with my dev team helping when I got stuck. Kudos to Turtil management for giving me the room to learn deployment by doing it.

Claude is my co-pilot through the whole loop — design, code, the words on the screen. Designer + Engineer. Not a traditional designer anymore. But I haven't forgotten where I came from.

Currently looking for a Designer + Engineer role where the line between design and build is fuzzy. Open to remote and hybrid.

Based inHyderabad, Telangana, IN
Years designing1.5+
RoleDesigner + Engineer
/04Principles

Three things I won't
compromise on.

01

Inevitable, not clever.

If a screen feels obvious in hindsight, the design is doing its job.

02

Motion is meaning.

Easing, duration, and timing are part of the message — not decoration.

03

Ship the prototype.

A live click-through beats a deck. The artifact is the argument.

/05Story · 2022 — present

How I got here.

  • 2025 — Present
    Junior UX DesignerTurtil · Teach Bricks Pvt Ltd

    Designed and shipped 5 product modules end-to-end. Ran usability across 25 modules — cut friction by ~20%. Leaning hard on AI to iterate faster without giving up ownership of UX decisions or usability outcomes.

  • 2024
    UI/UX Designer · ContractSpaarks · OSOS Pvt Ltd

    Designed the first internal Content Moderation CRM for a 100K+ download social platform — Reports, Appeals, Review on a shared content-summary spine. Owned the flow ideation → hi-fi → usability testing with actual mod staff. Engineering shipped straight from prototype.

  • 2024
    Bachelor of Arts · Political ScienceDr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University

    Wrapped up the degree alongside full-time design work. Years of reading social systems turn out to translate well into reading product systems.

  • 2023 — 2024
    UI/UX DesignerIfStatic Technologies

    Led UI/UX across SaaS dashboards and B2B internal tools — wireframes through hi-fi, in close collaboration with engineering and PMs. Built reusable component libraries and tokens that shortened design-to-build across the team.

  • 2022
    Started learning UI/UXSelf-taught · Google UX Certificate

    Figma, Coursera, late nights, redrawing apps I used every day. Switched from political-science theory to interface practice — and never looked back.

/06Toolbelt

Tools I keep close.

Design
  • Figma
  • Framer
  • Rive
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
Code
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • Motion
  • MDX
  • React Native
Workflow
  • Linear
  • Notion
  • Cursor
  • Claude
  • VS Code
  • Git
/07Off the clock

What I'm into.

Now playing

Aaya Sher (From "The Paradise") (Telugu)

Anirudh Ravichander

SRH fan. This plays when Abhishek Sharma walks out to bat — same fuel I use before opening Figma.

Currently reading
It always seems impossible until it's done.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Kathryn & Ross Petras

Not a heavy reader yet — but I try to learn something new every day, and what I learn I put to use the same week.

Daily fuel

Lots of protein

4 eggs, 250g chicken breast, 50g soya chunks. Designer brain runs on macros.

// Let's connect

Have an idea?
Let's build it.

Looking for a Designer + Engineer who can ship? Got a freelance brief? Just want to nerd out about easing curves? My inbox is open.

Shiva Kumar Kummari.

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