Hi, I’m Narayan, a designer interested in building playful interactions between people and between people and machines. I’m a graduate student at the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and currently work as a design researcher with the CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Coming from an architecture background, my way of working is rooted in thinking through systems, scale, and how parts connect. Across the different tools and mediums I’ve explored, the core question stays the same: how do people interact today, and how can we design these interactions to be fun and useful. At CMU, I’ve explored these questions using computational tools, including machine learning, physical computing, and AI prototyping. I primarily work through prototyping, building early versions, and iterating through testing, with the goal of fitting these ideas into everyday human activity.