FigmaSeamics
Internship, live client project — shipping real product surfaces with a small team.
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Paper to shipped
one screen, four lives
Hover a frame to hold it. Everything I make walks this strip.
UI/UX designer · sketch artist · psychology-minded
I design the three seconds that decide everything.
Sadikshya Chhetri — UI/UX Designer
I sketch before I wireframe.
Product design with a pencil still in hand — Kathmandu based, working on interfaces people trust.
…and I keep the paper. Always.
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Designer, sketch artist, psychology-minded. I believe AI generates — but it doesn't create. That part still needs a person who has looked closely at people.
Selected work
Six projects, one habit: understand the person first.
Experience
Seamics — UI/UX Design Intern → Product Designer
At Seamics I stopped designing in a vacuum. I sat in client calls, defended decisions out loud, handed files to developers, and watched my screens turn into something people actually use.
Where design stopped being homework.
Direct collaboration with developers
I worked side by side with the dev team — component-level handoff, shared naming, spacing and state specs, and quick review loops instead of a thrown-over-the-wall Figma link. When something wasn't buildable, we redesigned it together the same day.
Client meetings, not just mockups
I joined requirement calls and review sessions, translated business asks into user problems, presented options with reasoning, and turned feedback into scoped revisions the same week.
Three projects delivered end to end
Seamics' own website redesign, Nivix Pharmaceuticals, and Hotel Travelers Home — each taken from research and sketches through wireframes, UI, prototype and developer handoff.
Delivered at Seamics
Seamics Website Redesign
Rebuilt the company's own site — clearer service story, stronger hierarchy, and a homepage that finally explains what Seamics does in one scroll.
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Nivix Pharmaceuticals
A trust-first rebuild of a dense pharma site: readable product information, calmer layout, and a structure patients and partners can navigate without help.
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Hotel Travelers Home
Booking reduced to three warm, obvious steps — fewer drop-offs, faster path from browsing a room to confirming a stay.
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Point of view
AI can generate. It can't decide.
Generation is cheap now. Judgment isn't.
I use AI the way I use a pencil sharpener — it removes friction. Wireframes, layout variants, first-pass UI: things that used to eat two days now take an afternoon, which means I get to spend that time on the part that matters.
In practice: I sketch and wireframe fast with Claude and Cursor, prototype real interactions in Framer, and use Lovable to test ideas live in the browser. But the tools only get me to options — deciding which option actually earns a user's trust, that's not something AI does for me.
What a person feels in the first three seconds, where hesitation creeps in, which word makes someone tap and which makes them close the tab — those are emotional, experiential, psychological calls. I make them, and I can explain every one.
Sketchbook
the pages before the pixels
How I work
Sketch → Prototype → Decide
01Sketch
Every screen starts on paper. Anatomy, perspective, instinct — before any tool touches it.
02Prototype
I move fast with AI-assisted tools to explore directions, layouts, and edge cases in hours, not days.
03Decide
The final call — what a user feels first, what earns their trust — that judgment is mine, not generated.
Skills
What I'm actually good at (and what I'm chasing next)
learning is the job.
01Design & research
UX research, user flows, wireframing, interface design, design systems and clickable prototypes in Figma — from a blank page to a spec a developer can build without asking me twice.
02Psychology, applied
The part I love most. Behavioural cues, cognitive load, trust and hesitation — I read a screen the way I'd read a person, and I design for the pause before the click.
03Code literacy
HTML, CSS and JavaScript basics, plus Python fundamentals. Enough to read a component, understand what's cheap or expensive to build, and speak the same language as the dev team.
04Rapid prototyping
My fastest gear. I can turn a rough idea into something clickable and testable the same day using Figma, Framer and AI-assisted tooling — options in hours, not weeks.
05Motion design
Currently deepening this: transitions, micro-interactions and timing that make an interface feel alive instead of merely correct.
06Where I'm heading
AI/ML fundamentals and data-informed design — I want to design systems that think, not just screens that look good.
Design philosophy
Design is an empathy problem wearing a layout costume.
People before pixels
I studied psychology before I studied grids. I design for hesitation, fear of getting it wrong, and the quiet relief of an interface that behaves the way you expected.
Clarity beats cleverness
If a screen needs explaining, it isn't finished. I'll trade a beautiful idea for an obvious one every time.
Every decision has a reason
Nothing on my screens is there because it looked nice in a template. I can walk you through why each element earns its space.
Process
How I solve a UX problem
01Find the real problem
The brief is rarely the problem. I ask what the user is actually trying to finish, and where they currently give up.
02Map the moment of friction
I walk the existing flow step by step and mark every place that adds doubt — unclear labels, hidden costs, too many choices at once.
03Sketch several ways out
Paper first, fast. Three or four directions before I fall in love with any of them.
04Prototype and put it in front of someone
A clickable flow beats an argument. I watch where people pause — the pause is the finding.
05Decide, then hand off properly
I pick the direction, document states and edge cases, and stay with the developers until it ships the way it was designed.
Still mostly a person who draws.
About
Psychology first, pixels second.
I came to product design through psychology and drawing, not through a tools course. I'm an INFJ, which mostly means I notice the small hesitation before someone clicks, and I can't unsee it once I have.
I trained at Digital Pathshala and have been building since — client work, redesigns, and a sketchbook that never really closes. Ambition beyond product design: I want to keep being an artist, not just someone who arranges rectangles well.
Right now I'm deepening my motion design skills and learning the fundamentals of AI/ML — I want to eventually design systems that think, not just screens that look good.