# Aparna Balasubramanian
> Product designer with 3+ years of building 0 → 1 products at start-ups and agencies, across health tech, compliance SaaS, restaurant tech and legal tech. Often the sole designer: research, visual style and design systems, prototyping, testing and shipping alongside PMs and engineers. Open to new roles.

The full site as plain text, with links to every image and video: https://aparnabee.com/llms-full.txt

## Case studies
- [Designing software for new age hardware — Mave](https://aparnabee.com/mave.html): sole designer of the companion app for Mave's tDCS headset; designed and shipped it in 3 months with 1 PM and 1 engineer, putting guidance before, during and after the first session so it could replace one-on-one demos.
- [Weaving email threads into a real product — Commenda](https://aparnabee.com/commenda.html): sole designer moving Commenda's entity formation and compliance services off email into one workspace for customers and service agents (0 → 1 → 10).
- [Juggling domains at an agency](https://afinefolio.framer.website/): Urban Piper (restaurant tech), Dell (health tech, AI), Agami (legal tech).

## More
- [Résumé (PDF)](https://aparnabee.com/assets/aparna-balasubramanian-resume.pdf)
- [My journey](https://aparnabee.com/journey.html): from fashion design and a vintage clothing business to product design.
- Contact: aparnnaa98@gmail.com · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnabla/)