About

I'm Nishad, a design engineer at ASU's Learning Engineering Institute. I design congruent spaces for humans, agents and interfaces: congruent as in geometry, parts that fit in ratio. Deterministic interfaces, agents and free-willed people, each with room to work alongside the others.

Not everything is visual any more. Much of my work is agentic: how an agent welcomes someone, what it says, and how the workflow runs from there. With generative UI I shape the possibilities and preferences instead of drawing every screen. Traditional UI still matters where a brand shows itself, as with LEXI, and part of my job is deciding where to do which.

I'm going deeper into human-computer interaction with AI as the disruptor: the harnesses I build optimize task utility and token spend, but just as much they're about making creation and scaling easier and turning specific skills into transferable ones, so the work stays expression, not a fight with the tooling.

Engineering taught me to organize and systematize, so work can be reproduced. Design gave me the human layer: empathy for people I'll never meet, and room for perspectives that aren't mine. Working with tools and people, solo and in teams, taught me to work with a team, under a team and over a team.

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