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Hi, I’m Mehnaz.

I started with a pencil and ended up designing systems. I still carry both.

I’m a product, UX and visual designer, now doing my M.Des at IIT Guwahati. I like working across scales: an AI console for telecom teams, a library for kids, a toy box that turns into the toy, and the characters that live in a card game. Drawing is how I think, so it shows up everywhere.

Photo of Mehnaz Basheer
that’s me ツ

What I do

Product & UX

Research, systems mapping, flows and interfaces for tools people use at work.

Horizon · FYBR.
Service, space & brand

Experiences that span a physical place, a brand and an app, designed as one journey.

Kibixy · airport wayfinding at Tata Elxsi
Illustration & characters

Characters, comics and visual stories, from sketchbook to client-ready sets.

Let’s Line Up · Redzone Escape

Experience

  • Tata ElxsiService Designer intern · airport wayfindingInternship
  • DashtoonAI Artist internInternship
  • Let’s Line UpFreelance illustrator · characters for Redzone EscapeAug–Oct 2024
  • Stix & BonesFreelance creative designerFreelance

Education

  • IIT GuwahatiM.Des2025 – now
  • Symbiosis Institute of DesignB.Des2020 – 2024

Off the clock

Characters with very big eyes, comics, and too many sketchbook pages. Lately also small tools I vibe-code to test an idea end to end.

Visit the playground
Illustration of Mehnaz sketching on a picnic blanket