Available · 2026 · Seattle, WA · Open to full-time
Aastha Dabhi
I make complex software
feel easy.
Digital product designer with an engineering background. Research, pixels, and enough React to keep handoff honest — B2B SaaS, design systems, and sprawling admin panels.
Selected work
Projects you can see.
Real product screens — not abstract placeholders. Click through for research, process, and outcomes.
CloudIQ Console
A redesigned experience to help admins discover, filter, and reuse veterinary codes faster — powered by clearer search logic, intuitive filters, and lightweight saved-query flows.
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IEEE Event Management
A responsive event platform for the CSUDH IEEE student organization — reframed from marketing brochure to calendar hub so students can see what’s happening this week.
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StayNTouch
A mobile-first social product designed to bridge the gap between neighbors — trusted local news, invitations, and community bulletins without the noise of national feeds.
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What I do
Three things, done properly.
I’d rather go deep than wide. Most projects touch all three — they’re not separate offerings, they’re how I work.
Research & strategy
Interviews, diary studies, heuristic audits, and the occasional spreadsheet. I’d rather kill a feature in research than ship it and discover it’s wrong.
Product & UX design
Wireframes, prototypes, full UI, and the design system underneath. I work in Figma but think in React components.
Design ↔ engineering
I write enough HTML, CSS, and React to make handoff a conversation, not a throw. Tokens, Storybook, and the boring infrastructure that keeps a system honest.
About
An engineer who got curious about people.
I came to design through engineering — which is a fancy way of saying I learned to ship before I learned to draw. That order shapes how I work.
Six years in, I’ve designed for agency clients, embedded with an enterprise platform team, and led capstone work on community products. The throughline is research that shows up in the pixels, design systems that survive contact with engineering, and a strong allergy to decoration.
Read the long version →“The boring parts of an interface should be boring. Save the design budget for the parts that are uniquely yours.”
Aastha’s first design rule
Now booking · 2026
Got a hairy workflow? Let’s untangle it.
I’m exploring full-time product design roles and select advisory projects. If you’ve got a B2B product that’s grown into a maze, I’d love to hear about it.