# Hridae Walia

> Product Designer. Founding Product Designer at [Domis](https://getdomis.com). Pronounced ri-they waliaa.

I'm a Product Designer obsessed with making, and I have 6 years of experience designing for interaction models that barely exist yet. I focus on the user and learn by making, whether on the canvas, in code, or the physical world.

I've designed features that help people understand their homes at Domis, AR fitness for any space at Virdio, an interactive exhibition at MOHAI, and tangible, accessible experiences for people living with Alzheimer's at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living.

## Now

Founding Product Designer at [Domis](https://getdomis.com) (2024–present), an AI-powered consumer home maintenance app.

## Selected work

- [Domis](https://hridaew.com/domis): Founding Product Designer at Domis, a home maintenance platform that helps people understand their house and take care of it without the busywork getting in the way — including learning a home from an address, a photo, and an inspection report.
- [Virdio](https://hridaew.com/virdio): Product design for Virdio, a hardware-free AR fitness platform across iOS, Android, Web, and TV (2021–2022). Turning machine-vision overlays into a consumer workout product.
- [OBSCURA](https://hridaew.com/obscura): Immersive photographic documentary at MOHAI (Museum of History & Industry, Seattle). A spatial computing exhibit where the viewer's gaze dynamically curates unseen post-WWII photographs from Japan. Interaction design, prototyping, and Unity development.
- [Memory Care Experience Station](https://hridaew.com/memory-care): Interaction design and physical prototyping for the Memory Care Experience Station with Maria Mortati Experience Design — a multi-sensory installation for people living with mid-to-late stage Alzheimer's. Fast Company 2022 World Changing Ideas finalist.

## Smaller builds (wafflings)

- [Savor](https://hridaew.com/waffling/savor): on-device tool that turns a phone video into a 3D Gaussian splat.
- [Saving Baby J](https://hridaew.com/waffling/orca): walk-up arcade game using thrown orca plushies as the controller.
- [Recorder prototype](https://hridaew.com/waffling/recorder): skeuomorphic mobile voice recorder.
- [Butter chicken recipe](https://hridaew.com/butter-chicken).

## Education

- Master of Human Computer Interaction + Design (MHCI+D), University of Washington (2024)
- BFA Interaction Design, California College of the Arts (2020)

## Contact

- Email: hridaew@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hridae
- GitHub: https://github.com/hridaew
- CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f11tgSCoo4GY0DuVhdmOVG17lPRpGb3Z/view?usp=sharing
- Site: https://hridaew.com

## For machines

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