HI, I'MAYUSH

I didn't start in design. I started in music.

Back in college — B.Tech in Computer Science, started 2016 — I was producing music and mixing audio on the side. Album covers came next, made in Canva for a bit of extra income between classes.

But an album cover is a single frame. It says one thing, once, and it's done. What pulled me toward UI/UX was realizing interfaces weren't like that at all — they weren't about one striking image, they were about movement. How someone actually moves through something, task by task, day after day. That shift — from composing a moment to designing a flow — was the thing that hooked me.

I started teaching myself through free YouTube courses, building personal projects in Axure RP just to see if the instinct held up. It did. By February 2020, I was working officially as a UX Analyst.

Most days start messy on purpose. I'll rough something out fast — Figma sketches, a quick prototype built with Claude or Codex — just to see if an idea survives contact with reality before I spend real time polishing it. What holds up gets taken back into Figma and built out properly.

The rest is less glamorous: scrums, daily updates, research, the usual rhythm of enterprise work. I spend a fair amount of that time deliberately staying current — new tools, new AI models, whatever's shifting — not because it's trendy, but because the workflow I use today didn't exist two years ago, and the one I'll use next year probably doesn't exist yet either.