Maulashree Shanbhag

I transform hard problems into workflows people love to use, like complex financial onboarding, safety documentation… for real people in high stakes scenarios.

I transform hard problems into workflows people love to use, like complex financial onboarding, safety documentation… high stakes scenarios, for people who don't have time to figure out bad software.

I design for the user who's standing on a construction site in the rain, the one uploading financials at midnight before a deadline, the fitness newbie staring at a reformer machine on their first day at the gym.

I've built design systems from scratch (250+ styles, 475+ components, sole owner), shipped features used across 19,000+ projects, and placed Top 30 out of 3,000+ submissions in Google's Gemini API Developer Competition (2-person team). MDes from IIT Bombay, Department Rank 1. Institute Silver Medalist, IIT Bombay.

I design games for fun at Yarncat, my indie apps & games studio.

I think in systems, prototype in code, and reach for AI tools before most designers have finished setting up their Figma file. Cursor for prototyping, and most recently, Lovable, Claude Code, & n8n at the AI Study Camp.

The through-line across everything I do: find the real bottleneck, design the simplest thing that solves it, ship it fast and iterate.

I've built design systems from scratch (250+ styles, 475+ components, sole owner), shipped features used across 19,000+ projects, and placed Top 30 out of 3,000+ submissions in Google's Gemini API Competition (2-person team). MDes from IIT Bombay, Department Rank 1, institute silver medalist.

I transform hard problems into workflows people love to use, like complex financial onboarding, safety documentation… high stakes scenarios, for people who don't have time to figure out bad software.

I design for the user who's standing on a construction site in the rain, the one uploading financials at midnight before a deadline, the fitness newbie staring at a reformer machine on their first day at the gym.

I've built design systems from scratch (250+ styles, 475+ components, sole owner), shipped features used across 19,000+ projects, and placed Top 30 out of 3,000+ submissions in Google's Gemini API Developer Competition (2-person team). MDes from IIT Bombay, Department Rank 1. Institute Silver Medalist, IIT Bombay.

I design games for fun at Yarncat, my indie apps & games studio.

I think in systems, prototype in code, and reach for AI tools before most designers have finished setting up their Figma file. Cursor for prototyping, and most recently, Lovable, Claude Code, & n8n at the AI Study Camp.

The through-line across everything I do: find the real bottleneck, design the simplest thing that solves it, ship it fast and iterate.

I run my indie studio Yarncat, and have shipped apps (Android, iOS) & games (Steam, mobile).
We compete in game jams too. Most recently: Placed 19th out of 1400+ entries in Brackeys Game Jam 2026.1

I transform hard problems into workflows people love to use, like complex financial onboarding, safety documentation… high stakes scenarios, for people who don't have time to figure out bad software.

I design for the user who's standing on a construction site in the rain, the one uploading financials at midnight before a deadline, the fitness newbie staring at a reformer machine on their first day at the gym.

I've built design systems from scratch (250+ styles, 475+ components, sole owner), shipped features used across 19,000+ projects, and placed Top 30 out of 3,000+ submissions in Google's Gemini API Developer Competition (2-person team). MDes from IIT Bombay, Department Rank 1. Institute Silver Medalist, IIT Bombay.

I design games for fun at Yarncat, my indie apps & games studio.

I think in systems, prototype in code, and reach for AI tools before most designers have finished setting up their Figma file. Cursor for prototyping, and most recently, Lovable, Claude Code, & n8n at the AI Study Camp.

The through-line across everything I do: find the real bottleneck, design the simplest thing that solves it, ship it fast and iterate.

I think in systems, prototype in code, and reach for AI tools before most designers have finished setting up their Figma file. At work, I use Cursor. Most recently: Lovable, Claude code and n8n at the AI Study Camp.