Kavya Iyer — UI and Visual Designer
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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
- Interface: UI design, Design systems, Responsive layout, Prototyping, Motion basics
- Tools: Figma, Illustrator, After Effects, Glyphs, Blender
