Apeksha Khanal™
Co-founder | Designer | Engineer
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Apeksha Khanal™
Co-founder | Designer | Engineer
Hi, I’m Apeksha Khanal
I designproductsand build them too.
I co-founded Aurora Studios.
A small product studio where design and code aren’t separate departments — we take an idea from the first rough conversation to something people can actually use.
Designer and engineer from Kathmandu, working with founders anywhere.
3+ years across design, engineering, and building a studio from the ground up.
Work I’m proud of.
A few projects where the design and the code were the same job — from the first messy idea through to something people can actually use.
Product Design · UX/UI · DevelopmentCase study coming soonNepal Nexus
Product Design · Frontend · BackendCase study coming soonSahara Ghar
I like ideas that don’t stop at Figma.
I design interfaces, solve product problems, write frontend code, and occasionally disappear into a tiny detail that nobody asked me to fix.
About
I design the thing, then I build it.
I started with design because I liked figuring out how things should look and feel. Then I got curious about what happened after the design was finished. So I learned to code.
Now I do both — designer and engineer, moving between Figma and the browser, thinking about the experience and the implementation together.
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Designing
- Figma · React · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · React Native · Node.js
- Aurora Studios
Why I do both
Why design AND code?
Because I don’t think the best work happens when design and development are treated like two completely different planets.
Design decisions affect implementation.
Technical constraints affect design.
And sometimes the best solution appears when you’re sitting somewhere in the middle.
That’s where I like working.
Contact
Have something
worth making?
Tell me what you’re working on, what you’re stuck on, or what you’ve been thinking about.
Big idea, tiny problem, half-finished Figma file. I’m interested.