Kali Surana ✦ Issue 01

Smells like showing up prepared.

My love language is auto layout.

I literally cannot see without these. Design or life.

For doom scrolling competitors. It is research.

Low fidelity. High intentions.

Non negotiable. Like good contrast ratios.

Masala ginger chai. My actual design system.

UX designer who speaks fluent strategy.

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About

A designer who feels before she thinks.

Before I ever touched Figma, I was mixing paint. Acrylics, watercolors, sketching. Anything that let me be creative. That instinct never went away. It just moved into pixels. I grew up in India, transferred to RIT in New York as a junior, and spent the years between learning that good design, like good painting, is mostly about knowing when to stop.

Rochester Institute of Technology | B.S. Computing and Information Technologies | Summa Cum Laude | May 2026

Based in San Francisco, CA

Status Open to work

Availability Immediately

Fuelled by Masala chai, obviously

Figma Figma

UX Research UX Research

Wireframing Wireframing

HTML/CSS HTML/CSS

Visual Design Visual Design

Prototyping Prototyping

Content Strategy Content Strategy

Brand Identity Brand Identity

Information Architecture Information Architecture

Usability Testing Usability Testing

Video Editing Video Editing

Canva Canva

Social Media Management Social Media Management

Community Building Community Building

Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud

every skill, shipped and ready.

End of Issue 01.
Beginning of something good.

Open to full-time roles in UX design, product design, and social media strategy. Let's talk.

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KALI SURANA

the work.

A designer who feels before she thinks.

End of Issue 01.
Beginning of something good.

KALI SURANA

A designer who feels before she thinks.

End of Issue 01.Beginning of something good.

End of Issue 01.
Beginning of something good.