designer. researcher. slightly obsessed with food.

I design the way I eat: curiously, experimentally, always looking for the next interesting thing.

I believe the best design comes from genuine curiosity. I've spent years learning how people think, what they need, and where products quietly fail them. Every project starts with a question and ends with something that feels obvious in hindsight, like it couldn't have been any other way.

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These are my interaction design experiments, and I ended up having so much fun making and learning.

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i tried to recreate the first iPod i ever owned.

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Things that make me, me

A few pieces of who I am.

I think the best design instincts come from living curiously. These are some of the things that shaped mine.

Podcast host on mental health & storytelling

Builds empathy, active listening, and comfort with difficult conversations.

Helped build a 30-foot bamboo sculpture

Collaborative making at scale — learning by doing, getting your hands dirty.

Known to plan my day around food

Cultural curiosity & attention to sensory experience.

Collects postcards wherever I go

Observer of places, typography, and the everyday design of the world.

Building with cob & vernacular techniques

Earth, straw, water — understanding what it means to build slowly with what's already there.

Finds joy in small wins

Progress over perfection — sustainable creative practice, always.

Let's talk design. Or food. Preferably both.

Kanishka Balaji