Daya Raj Dhungana · Product Designer

About

I'm Daya.

I've spent the last five years designing products that people actually have to use. Not because they want to, but because they need to get their job done.

ERP systems. Dashboards. Internal tools. The kind of software where bad design doesn't just annoy people. It slows down entire teams and costs real money.

My role is to simplify without dumbing down. To find the real workflow buried under layers of legacy assumptions. To redesign things so they actually match how people think.

I work closely with engineers and stakeholders. I test early and often. And I push back when a feature request would create more problems than it solves.

I care about the details, because a confusing label or one unnecessary click, repeated by hundreds of people every day, adds up to a lot of wasted time.

Outside of work, I'm the person who rearranges furniture to "fix the flow" and silently judges poorly designed restaurant menus.

Experience

5+ Years

Specialty

Enterprise UX

Education

Computer Engineering

Certification

Google UX Design

Product Thinking

Understanding what to build and why before touching design tools.

Interaction Design

Flows that make sense. Less cognitive load per action.

UX Research

Interviews, usability tests, synthesis. Finding the real problem behind the stated one.

AI-Assisted Design Growing

I use AI tools including Claude, ChatGPT and Stitch to accelerate research synthesis, generate design variations, and sharpen copy. The goal is more time on the decisions that actually need a human.

Design Systems

Component libraries that scale without slowing teams down.

Frontend Development

HTML, CSS and JS. Enough to prototype fast, build this site, and have credible conversations with any engineer.

People and training

How others describe
working with me.

From people I've shipped with

My team figured out the new system without any onboarding session. We were raising invoices correctly on day one. That hasn't happened with any software we've used before.

Business Owner

Providhy ERP · Kathmandu

Daya doesn't just hand off files and disappear. He stays through implementation, flags edge cases before they become bugs, and explains the reasoning behind every decision. It makes the build phase significantly faster.

Frontend Engineer

Providhy Development Team

Structured learning

Google UX Design Professional Certificate

Google · Coursera · 7 courses · 2023

Seven-course series covering user research, personas, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping and usability testing — including a capstone end-to-end mobile app design.

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UI / UX Design Specialization

California Institute of the Arts · Coursera · 2022

Four-course specialization on visual design fundamentals, information architecture, responsive web and mobile design, and high-fidelity interactive prototyping.

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