I design and build digital products — UI/UX, design systems, and the SaaS and mobile experiences built on them.

I’m Harsh Vaghela, a freelance UI/UX and product designer based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. I work on design systems, web UI, mobile app design and SaaS product design for founders and small teams, locally and remotely worldwide.

I design in Figma, Framer, Webflow and Sketch, then build the front end in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS and PHP, so what ships stays close to what was designed. I completed my BCA at Bholabhai Patel College of Computer Studies and am pursuing my MCA at Bhagwan Swaminarayan Institute of Technology.

From BCA to UI/UX design

My interest in design started during my BCA, where computer science coursework kept pulling me toward the interface side of every project rather than only the logic behind it. Figma became the tool I kept coming back to, and UI/UX design turned from a course topic into the thing I actually wanted to do.

Picking up front-end development alongside it (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and later React and Next.js) turned out to be the useful detour. Understanding how an interface actually gets built changed how I design in the first place.

First freelance projects

My first freelance work was web UI and landing page design, where real client feedback replaced a brief written by a course. Each project pushed me to tighten spacing, hierarchy and consistency in ways a tutorial never covers.

From there the work expanded into design systems and mobile app screens, and I started pairing every Figma file with a working front-end build, so a client could see the interface in a browser, not only in a prototype.

Design and code today

With 1.5+ years in the field, I now work across design systems, web UI, mobile app design and SaaS product design, usually for founders and small teams who want both the design file and a working build. I’m completing my MCA at Bhagwan Swaminarayan Institute of Technology alongside client work.

I take on freelance and collaborative projects, particularly design system work, SaaS dashboards, and web UI that has to go from Figma to a live, responsive site.

Skills

  • UI Design
  • UX Design
  • Design Systems
  • Web UI Design
  • Mobile App Design
  • SaaS Product Design
  • UX Research & Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Design to Code
  • Front-End Development

Tools

  • Figma
  • Framer
  • Webflow
  • Sketch
  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • PHP

Beyond screens

Outside client work, I spend time exploring new tools and frameworks in design and front-end development; it’s part of why I ended up as much of a coder as a designer.

Being a student again through my MCA keeps me close to the fundamentals, which shows up in how I approach structure and problem-solving in design work too.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India