Hey, I'm Arushi.

I'm a product designer who turns ambiguity into clarity. Over the past 4+ years, I've worked end-to-end, from research to shipping, collaborating closely with engineering to make sure what's designed is what's built. I build systems and guidelines that scale, not just screens.

Problem-solving and problem-spotting come naturally to me. First principles, reframing the question before jumping to answers. My education at NID taught me that problem-solving is just one frame. Design also exists to think about the future, to evoke emotion when it needs to, to ask 'what if' and 'could this exist' long before there's a brief.

When a problem is on my mind, it stays with me. I carry it into conversations, into things I observe, into completely unrelated contexts, and that's often where the dots connect. I think about how a product actually lives in someone's day. What happens when things go wrong, not just right. What a product communicates even when it's silent.

I care deeply about design as a craft. I question conventions, and form points of view that make future decisions easier, not just current ones prettier. I believe the best design is the kind users never notice. It just works.