During my internship i worked on creating a brand identity for an upcoming taproom kitchen called Runway27. I also designed a logo for a cafe that resides inside Runway27 called Cafe27

Graphic Design Intern

Designed end-to-end digital experiences for HDFC and SBI Mutual Fund — two of India’s largest financial institutions — across full-page scroll flows, landing pages, and critical UI sections.

– Drove multiple design iterations through direct stakeholder sessions with senior PMs at HDFC and SBIMF, translating high-stakes business requirements into reviewed, production-ready designs.

Experience Design Intern

- Designed 12+ product features end-to-end — user flows, wireframes, interaction states, and edge case scenarios — shipped across 5–6 sprints over 3 months as the team’s sole designer in a developer-heavy environment.

– Contributed to design decisions that drove a Day-7 engagement rate of 83.08% — nearly 3× the industry average of 30% — with users averaging 3.02 engaged sessions and 16+ minutes per day inside the app.

– Designed social and AI-native features with active user adoption — including peer transaction splitting and full-conversation engagement with TARS, Limitly’s in-app AI assistant.

– Led all developer handoffs across the full engineering team, maintaining design integrity from Figma to production as the single point of design ownership.

Design Intern

"Product designer and B.Des (Hons) graduate with live fintech experiences, building Intuitive B2C & B2B products

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