About
Yash Pathak
Studios
I don’t have one style. I have one standard.
I started designing interfaces because I wanted the games I played to feel better to use. Seven years later that is still the job: make it legible, make it feel right under the thumb, and make it survive contact with a real codebase.
Most of that work has been game UI (HUDs, inventories, shops, progression systems) for Roblox studios and independent teams. Over a hundred commissions, run on a fixed pipeline from a client's first message to a working hierarchy in Studio. The process is written down, because re-deciding it on every job is what burns designers out.
The rest is product: SaaS interfaces, dashboards, design systems, the occasional site. That side sharpened what games do not teach on their own: architecture, edge cases, and what happens on the fifteenth screen rather than the first.
I study Computer Science at McMaster. It is the other half of the job. It is why I hand off files built to be programmed instead of files that only look right, and why I can talk to the engineer implementing them without a translator in the room.
A fantasy inventory and a billing dashboard need completely different surfaces, and the mark of the job is that neither should look like me. What stays constant is underneath: hierarchy, spacing, states, and a component system somebody else can pick up.
What I get hired to do
Roblox studios come for the screens, product teams for the systems. The middle column is the one people are surprised by: the interface has to look like it belongs to your game, not to me.
Screens I design
- HUDs and loading screens
- Inventories and item grids
- Shops, bundles and monetisation
- Progression, quests and passes
- Lobbies, menus and settings
- Trading, clans and social
- Leaderboards and results screens
- Onboarding and the first session
Styles I work in
- Clean and modern
- Fantasy and medieval
- Anime and stylised
- Sci-fi and tech
- Cartoony and bright
- Glass, neon and gradient
- Product and minimal
What comes with it
- Art direction pulled from your existing look
- Design tokens and a component library
- Icon and asset systems
- Studio-ready file structure
- Engineering handoff specs
- A system your team can extend without me
Experience
Studios, products and the years behind them.
Astrix Solutions
Founder, Product Lead
Co-founded a product agency and took it past $5,000 MRR in three months, designing the funnels and CRM platforms behind it.
GitCloud
Founding Product Designer
Owned UX and information architecture for an early-stage SaaS app, from onboarding through the dashboard system.
Twin Atlas
UI/UX Designer
Interface systems inside an award-winning Roblox studio, on experiences with millions of visits.
HyperPenguin Games
Lead UI/UX Designer
Directed UI redesigns on live products, sharpening usability and visual hierarchy at scale.
Rush Interactive / First Post
UI/UX Designer
Scalable UI systems across mobile and web gaming, built as reusable components adopted across updates.
Independent
Freelance UI/UX and Product Designer
100+ commissions for Roblox studios and independent teams, run on a fixed intake-to-handoff pipeline.
McMaster University
BASc Computer Science
The implementation half of the job: why my files hand off without a rebuild.
Tell me what you’re building.
Taking commissions for the coming month, and open to full-time roles. Send the brief below and pick how you want to be answered.
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Roblox and game work
The server is where briefs, previews and revisions actually happen.
Product and everything else
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