The first designer in my family with a generalist mindset. I bring 5+ years of experience shipping web platforms and mobile products with a nonlinear process grounded by visual sense, innovation strategy, and systemic thinking.

'23 – '25 Savannah
'08 – '23 Bangalore
'01 – '08 Muscat
Since '00 Pondicherry

Vinyl hunt in ATL

Gokarna '21

My favorite manga

Savannah sees snow '25

A special day

Officially an M.B.I

My rock and strength

Teaching my friend Figma

Vinyl hunt in ATL

Gokarna '21

My favorite manga

Savannah sees snow '25

A special day

Officially an M.B.I

My rock and strength

Teaching my friend Figma

Vinyl hunt in ATL

Gokarna '21

My favorite manga

Savannah sees snow '25

A special day

Officially an M.B.I

My rock and strength

Teaching my friend Figma

🌌 My Story

Mahanetran literally translates to 'great eyes', which has always tied my personality and chase towards excellence, craft, and zeal. To me, creativity is more a liberator than a superpower, and the curiosity it comes with is the real juice.

Professionally, I've garnered experience with a domain/industry-agnostic approach to shipping and pitching B2B/B2C projects across career-tech, IT consulting, music, omni-channel marketing, finance tech, and healthcare SaaS. What ties them all together is my willingness to care deeply about the stories and people behind each brief.

Originally from Bangalore (India), I moved to Savannah (USA) for my Master's degree in Design Management at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).

In a past life, I studied Service Design at Srishti Institute, made music as CoastBoi (an ode to Pondicherry, my birthplace) and dabbled in digital and sketch illustrations.

💭 Design Manifesto

👀 Be obsessed with not knowing much

🌊 Every project flows different

🌁 Think of creativity as a bridge

🔎 Knowing why > knowing what

🏢 Defining "ideal" starts within

🍀 The quadruple bottom line

😌 After Hours

Most of my days revolve around not taking life too seriously and scouring the internet for inspiration. I've always been a collector of memories and memorabilia. As my interests waver, I'm currently learning to tinker with AI.

💿 Building my vinyl collection

I'm fascinated by the rawness & engineering of phygital media, having grown up with CDs.

The Art of Doing Science & Engineering

The Making of Prince of Persia

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Inside Apple's Design Process

Pachinko

One Piece Volume 112

The Art of Doing Science & Engineering

The Making of Prince of Persia

Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Inside Apple's Design Process

Pachinko

One Piece Volume 112

📖 What I'm reading now

I'm a slow reader and surprisingly enough, usually read many books at a time.

🖌️ Getting back to the canvas

Comics and manga fueled my creativity and inspired me to pursue a potential career in art.

🥘 Cookin' it or eatin' it

As much as I love eating out, I've recently rekindled my love for cooking at home.

🤝 Design Homies

Abhay Krishna Yerramilli

Art Director – Freelancer

Ankitha Gattupalli

Strategist – Downstream

Gabby Lewis

UX Designer – SCAD

Greeshma Prabhakara

Service Designer – SCAD

Hardik Kumawat

Designer – AdventHealth

Hiral Doshi

Design Strategist – SCAD

Hitasha Mehta

UX Designer – TeamCal.ai

Kulin Mehta

Motion Designer – SCAD

Liam Stoica

Growth Designer – Hard Rock

Nicholas Schroeder

Experience Designer

Nikitha Chendil

AI Product Designer

Nirkhunan Kuppuram

Strategist – The Polis Project

Regina Prieto

UX Designer – SCAD

Robin Uotila

Sound & Fashion Designer

Shruti Dasari

Industrial Designer – SCAD

Sonali Nagane

UX Designer – See/Me

Yamini Belwal

Design Strategist – SCAD

Zihan Huang

Design Engineer – SCAD

Keep it ol' fashioned, come say hi or send me a playlist!

mahanetran@gmail.com

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The first designer in my family with a generalist mindset. I bring 5+ years of experience shipping web platforms and mobile products grounded in visual sense, innovation, and systems thinking.

'23 – '25 Savannah
'08 – '23 Bangalore
'01 – '08 Muscat
Since '00 Pondicherry

Vinyl hunt in ATL

Gokarna '21

My favorite manga

Savannah sees snow '25

A special day

Officially an M.B.I

My rock and strength

Teaching my friend Figma

Vinyl hunt in ATL

Gokarna '21

My favorite manga

Savannah sees snow '25

A special day

Officially an M.B.I

My rock and strength

Teaching my friend Figma

Vinyl hunt in ATL

Gokarna '21

My favorite manga

Savannah sees snow '25

A special day

Officially an M.B.I

My rock and strength

Teaching my friend Figma

🌌 My Story

Originally from Bangalore (India), I moved to Savannah (USA) for my Master's degree in Design Management at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD).

In a past life, I studied Service Design at Srishti Institute, made music as CoastBoi (an ode to Pondicherry, my birthplace) and dabbled in digital and sketch illustrations.