----Designer
based in Kathmandu,
working globally

I am Paras Shrestha, a designer, artist, and mentor with over seven years of practice across product design, dashboards, design systems, visual identity, and communications.

From Kathmandu, I collaborate with teams working in disaster risk, climate resilience, nutrition, education, civic technology, and public-sector programmes.

I care about making technical or complex ideas legible, accessible, and engaging for the people who need them.

I begin by understanding the people, constraints, and systems around a problem. That means looking at user needs alongside content, data, engineering logic, and delivery realities.

From there I define flows, prototypes, visual direction, and modular components that teams can use consistently.

I work closely with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, and I mentor designers so the outcome stays clear beyond the first release.

Good design gives people confidence. It helps them understand what matters, make decisions, and move forward without unnecessary friction.

Whether I am designing a flood-warning platform, a communications campaign, or a design system, I look for the balance between structure and expression.

Accessibility, clarity, and craft are not finishing touches. They are part of the work from the beginning.

UI/UX and product design. User flows, research, prototyping, usability, accessibility, dashboards, and data platforms.

Design systems. Typography, color, iconography, layouts, tokens, variants, reusable components, and design tooling.

Communications and visual design. Publications, reports, campaigns, infographics, data visualization, illustration, motion, and visual identity.

Mentorship and delivery. Design critique, workshops, junior-designer development, and close collaboration with engineering teams through Jira.

Figma Community product. Built and shipped four design-system compliance tools, then combined them into a plugin that matches typography and color, swaps icon libraries, and turns HTML into editable Figma frames. Submitted to the Figma Community; pending review.

Teaching and jury work. Guest instructor for UI/UX design and jury member for the Orbit Expo UI/UX Challenge.

Awards and recognition. Winner of the State of the Map Asia logo design competition and cover designer for an award-winning novel.