UI and visual designer two years into consumer software, working from type, grid and colour before pixels. Rebuilt a learning app’s lesson screen and took the share of sessions that finish a lesson from 47% to 71%. Draws and ships Tamil and English interfaces that stay readable in both scripts.
Experience
UI Designer, Thendral Learning · February 2025 – present
One of two designers on a 40-person learning app used across Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Rebuilt the lesson screen around a single primary action and a visible progress rail, raising the share of sessions that finish a lesson from 47% to 71%.
Set the type scale and eight-point spacing grid, replacing 31 one-off text sizes with six and ending the weekly argument over which grey belonged where.
Designed the Tamil and English dual-script layout that holds a readable line length in both, after the first version broke onto three lines on five-inch screens.
Draws the weekly illustration set for in-app announcements; those cards are opened by 38% of users against 21% for the plain ones they replaced.
Design Intern, Curveline Studio · June 2024 – January 2025
Produced the identity and a 24-screen UI kit for a clinic booking app, delivered to the client eight weeks after the brief.
Redrew 60 icons onto one 24-pixel grid at a single 1.5-pixel stroke, ending the mismatched-weight rejections the client had sent back twice.
Projects
Kolam Type — A free Tamil and Latin display typeface drawn to one x-height, released under the SIL Open Font License.
Chennai Signboards — A photographic archive of 400 hand-painted shop signs, each broken down into its palette and lettering.
Education
B.Des. Communication Design · Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology · August 2020 – May 2024
Skills
Visual: Typography, Grid systems, Colour and contrast, Iconography, Illustration
Tools: Figma, Illustrator, After Effects, Glyphs, Blender
Why this UI and Visual Designer résumé works
Visual choices are tied to behaviour: the lesson screen rebuilt around a single primary action raised sessions that finish a lesson “from 47% to 71%”, design judged by what users then did.
The type-scale bullet, 31 one-off text sizes replaced with six on an eight-point spacing grid, gives a concrete sense of craft that a list of software never could.
Kolam Type, a Tamil and Latin typeface downloaded 5,800 times, and the Chennai Signboards archive keep the craft in projects, where a design lead can see taste and output together.
The dual-script Tamil and English layout, fixed after the first version broke onto three lines on five-inch screens, is specific to a regional product and hard to claim without having done it.
UI and Visual Designer résumé: common questions
Should a UI designer resume include a portfolio link?
Yes, in the header and labelled clearly. The résumé states what changed and what happened afterwards; the portfolio shows the screens. Point the link at a page of selected work rather than a full archive.
Should a fresher designer in India put CGPA on the resume?
Yes, for the first two or three years, as one line under the degree, such as 8.6 CGPA for a B.Des. Many Indian employers screen on it for entry-level roles; drop it once there are several years of work.
What skills should a UI designer resume list?
Group them: visual (typography, grids, colour, iconography), interface (design systems, prototyping, responsive layout) and tools (Figma, Illustrator, After Effects). Keep the tool list short and show the skills in bullets.
