About
I'm Punam Katuwal, a UI/UX Designer based in Kathmandu with three years of experience designing digital products across Japanese, Nepali, and American markets. I've led end-to-end design on mobile apps, web platforms, admin dashboards, and design systems — working full-time and part-time across ReadyToWork, OpenMyNetwork, and ShotCoder Tech. My background spans product design, team leadership, and cross-cultural collaboration, with a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Wolverhampton. I design at the intersection of interface craft, systems thinking, and human behavior — where the cultural context is part of the brief, not an afterthought.
Experience
Mar 2025 — Present
Full-time · Japan / NepalUI/UX Designer · Project Lead
ReadyToWork — ReadyX
Jun 2024 — Present
Part-time · United StatesUI/UX Designer · Team Lead
OpenMyNetwork
Jan 2023 — May 2024
Full-time · NepalUI/UX Engineer · Department Lead
ShotCoder Tech
Jan 2023 — May 2024
Part-time · NepalUI/UX Designer · Team Member
Development Platform HCK — Herald College
Sep 2021 — Mar 2022
Internship · NepalMarketing Intern
ING Skill Academy
Education
BSc. (Hons) Computer Science
University of Wolverhampton
2021 – 2023
A-Levels — Science
Trinity International College
2018 – 2021
Also
- President — Rotaract Club of Kantipur, District 3292 (2024/25)
- Outstanding President — Rotaract District 3292
- Panelist — Design Xplore: AI in Design
- Duke of Edinburgh International Award — Silver
- AAA Scholarship — Herald College
What keeps pulling me back
Cognitive science & behavioral design
How attention, memory, and decision-making shape the way people experience digital products — and what that means for the designer's responsibility. The gap between what engagement metrics reward and what actually serves users.
Multilingual & multicultural UX systems
What it means to design systems that hold multiple cultural logics simultaneously — not through translation, but through structural flexibility. Having worked across Japanese, Nepali, and American users, this isn't academic for me. It's the recurring problem.
What else shapes how I see
Beyond design, I'm often drawn to places, people, and systems outside screens. Through travel and trekking across Nepal's trails, I've learned something about distance and perspective that no design sprint ever taught me. Community work has been a constant — five years of volunteering, organizing, and showing up through Rotaract and Leo Club, working across health, education, and civic engagement initiatives. And I notice things: the way people move through spaces, how light changes a street, what gets ignored and what gets touched. I document some of it through photography — mostly quiet, mostly places. See some on Pinterest ↗
Let's talk
The work is where
perspective becomes practice.
If you're building something that has to work across cultures, contexts, or user types — that's the kind of problem I think about most.