I design calm interfaces — and research how they make people feel.

My capstone is a thermal-illusion wearable: a wristband that uses temperature contrast — warm against cool — as a signal channel, instead of the buzz-and-light overload that most notifications rely on. The idea is to let a device tell you something without yanking you out of whatever you're doing.

It's the clearest expression of what I care about as a researcher: notifications that respect attention, feedback you feel rather than fight, and technology that fades into the background until the moment it's useful.

I start by listening on purpose — mapping the journey, watching where it quietly breaks, and naming the moment a product lets someone down. Only then do I design, and the work is usually about taking things away until what's left feels inevitable.

I prototype in Figma, test with real people, and keep iterating until the interface feels calm and legible rather than clever. Subtlety, to me, is a feature — not a compromise.