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Hi, I'm Adit.

I'm a designer, researcher, and critical technologist immersed in the messy realities of complex systems, turning systems thinking into tangible stuff.

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About Me

I help teams build to learn. Whether it’s strategic foresight or UX research and design, I make things in the early, productively messy stages of research. I’m interested in the moments when groups of people tackle big questions. I design and prototype across scales to assist groups in making ideas concrete, approachable, and comprehensible.

With training in mechanical engineering, visual design and writing code, as well as experience in navigating complexity in technical and social systems, I’m comfortable in many “how” contexts. I’m motivated by a similarly wide range of “why” challenges: equitable futures, sustainable infrastructure, civic technologies, public memory, and more.

I’m an experienced collaborator, and I’m seeking more opportunities to turn systems thinking into tangible stuff.

Get in touch: adit.nd@gmail.com

Experience
  • New_Public
  • Senior UX Designer

February 2023 - Present

  • ArtCenter
  • Part-Time Instructor

September 2022 - Present

  • Moving Brands
  • Creative Technologist

Fall 2022

  • NASA JPL
  • Intern, Human Centered Designer II

2019 - 2022

  • Emulate
  • Associate Product Designer

2016-2018

  • Superflux
  • Product Designer

Summer 2016

  • Onshape
  • User Experience Intern

Summer 2015

Education
  • MFA Media Design Practices
  • ArtCenter College of Design

2018-2020

  • BS Mechanical Engineering
  • Olin College of Engineering

2012-2016

Exhibited Work

May 2020

December 2019

December 2018