Krithi Nalla
Designer exploring emerging interfaces, creative tools, and AI hardware
San Francisco / New York City
Summary
Multidisciplinary designer and creative technologist who blends interaction design, speculative futures, and hands-on prototyping across mediums (code, physical artifacts, apps, and film). Their practice emphasizes making complex technologies—like quantum computing and AI—legible and playful through design experiments and exhibitions. krithinalla+2
Experienced in product-focused and clinical design work: she has led end-to-end design at early-stage startups (EhNote) including on-site research, workflow mapping, and interface redesign for medical staff and patient-facing features, showing an ability to translate analog practices into digital systems. krithinalla
Practitioner-researcher who publishes writing and teaches through talks and exhibitions—combining academic and public-facing outputs (Medium essays, TEDx talk, Parsons thesis/show) to surface design thinking about emerging interfaces and technological futures. medium+2
Award-winning portfolio and exhibition record: work recognized by institutions in both design and technology (One Club/Young Ones portfolio award, IBM recognition for creative use of quantum), indicating strengths in concept development and multidisciplinary presentation. oneclub+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Food Futures: What Quantum Can Help Us Eat
February 1, 2024Explores 'Quantum Brownies' and the speculative idea of 'Quantum Cooking'—using quantum computation to generate recipe permutations and imagine future applications of quantum simulation to food.
The Case for Invisible AI
An essay / project page articulating a design philosophy favoring 'invisible' AI and context-aware tools (published as part of the personal portfolio).