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Hi, I’m Apeksha Khanal

I designproducts
and build them too.

Illustrated portrait of Apeksha Khanal, co-founder of Aurora Studios

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.

About

I like ideas that don’t stop at Figma.

I design the thing, then I build it.

I design interfaces, solve product problems, write the code, and occasionally disappear into a tiny detail that nobody asked me to fix.

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 as a designer and engineer, moving between Figma and the browser, and thinking about the experience and the implementation together.

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Illustration of Apeksha sitting cross-legged with a laptop, a notebook, a mug and a stack of books

Why I do both

Why design AND code?

Illustration of Apeksha sitting cross-legged with a pen, thinking.

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.

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