I'm Sowmya,
I situate design & narratives at the heart of my practice. I engage in field and desk research to understand users, analyze context, and generate valuable insights that help me transform user experience research into stories and designs.
Design Researcher & Experience Designer
Selected Projects
Design Research
Design Research | Design Probe
​Interactive Storytelling for Children
Understanding how storytelling enables 4 to 7-year-old children to express themselves and understand their socialization behavior.
Prototyping | Gen AI | Critical Making
Coded-This-Way: Unpacking AI Image Generation
Despite the lack of access to the source code, Coded-this-way provides a lens through which to understand how AI operates. It also aims to throw light on the risks of blindly believing AI to be unbiased or creative.
Design Research & Ecology
Analysis & Making
Design Research | Visual Documentation | Movement
Adaptive Ecologies & Climate Extremes
A contextual inquiry into socio-ecological relationships. Building creative research practices, understand new kinds of data, record complex relations, and synthesize findings.
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Analysis | Critical Making
Braiding Nuances: The Measure of All Things
How are everyday technologies of quantifying the human also hegemonic technologies? Understanding and analyzing the legal and ethical complexities of technology and surveillance.
Behavioral Design
Behavior Design | Mobile Games
Behavior Design in the World's Top-Grossing Hidden Objects Game
A dive into the behavior design behind addictive game’s design.
Behavior | Psychology | Sustainable Wellbeing
Social Consciousness
Quasi social experiment to understand implicit social consciousness in daily life