# Ishani V.

> Designer | Stealth Mode

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ishaniv

🥇 Ranked 1st and Gold medalist at NIFT
🎓 Full tuition waiver, worth $100,000 across four semesters, plus a $40,000 merit fellowship from the State of Georgia at UGA
🌏 One of the top 3 selected to represent India on a global stage in Hong Kong

Looking back, they reflect something consistent in how I approach things: full commitment, systems thinking, and an obsession with getting it right. 

That same consistency followed me into product. I've worked at the intersection of design, product strategy, and user behavior, not in any one lane, but in the space between them where the real problems live. I think in systems. I obsess over the detail that breaks them.

At AssetPay, I joined as Founding Product Designer and built from zero. I learned what it means to build with nothing but instinct and urgency, and to love it. Just a problem worth solving and the will to see it through. I learned what it really means to own a product: not a feature, not a screen, the whole thing.
 
What I noticed across all of it was a problem nobody was solving well. Not a small inconvenience. A structural gap in how product teams think, create, and stay aligned, especially now that AI has made everything faster and nothing smarter.

Now I'm building MorphMana - An agentic platform built for how product managers and designers actually think and work. I spent months in deep research before touching a prototype. The insight is earned, not borrowed.
 
Actively seeking a technical co-founder and early-stage investors who back founders who've lived the problem and done the research before asking anyone to believe in the solution.

## Work Experience
### Founder @ MorphMana
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Product Designer @ Sonrai Security
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Canada

### Founding Product Designer @ AssetPay
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Toronto, ON

### Graduate Research Assistant @ The University of Georgia
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Athens, GA

### Teaching Assistant @ The University of Georgia
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Athens, GA
Classes:
◆ FYOS 1001 (First-Year Odyssey Seminar: 3D Print & Design): Demonstrate tutorials on 3D design & simulation software (Google SketchUp, & TinkerCAD) and use of equipment (Makerbot Print)
◆ TXMI 3500 (Textiles): Direct textile design software (Pointcarre Textile CAD) and its modules (weaves, patterns, dobby, jacquard, 3D simulation & colour reduction)

### User Interface Designer @ VMock
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Gurgaon, India

### Textile Designer @ FAhome
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Gurugram
Designed for Zara Home, Pottery Barn, Macy's, William Sonoma Inc, Anthropologie, Nordstrom & West Elm


## Education
### Master of Science
The University of Georgia

### Bachelors in Design
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESWAR

### Summer Exchange Program in World Design Summer Camp (WDSC)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (PolyU Design)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ishanidesigns
- Portfolio: https://www.ishanidesigns.ca

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Last updated: 2026-04-13