# Hridae Walia

> Interaction Designer | Prototyper

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hridaewalia

Interaction designer with a hands-on, research-driven approach to building products often from the ground up. I've worked across mobile, desktop, AR/VR, and conversational interfaces, with a focus on designing systems that are both usable and forward-thinking. My background includes shipping cross-platform apps, designing for emerging tech, and leading user research in areas like home maintenance and dementia care.

I tend to dig deep into both the why and how, often getting involved in technical setup, prototyping, or troubleshooting when needed. I value clarity, strong design principles, and measurable impact, but also know how to keep things flexible when working in 0–1 spaces where data isn't always available.

## Work Experience
### Founding Product Designer @ Domis
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Working with ex-Google founders. Leading the design of a mobile-first app that supports both novice and expert homeowners with flexible, AI-powered task and home tracking. Created a scalable design system, animations, branding, website, and interactive prototypes.

### Experience Designer @ Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, WA
Deployed a museum exhibit - Obscura, an immersive photographic experience based off of a set of recently uncovered photos from US Occupied Japan in the aftermath of WW2.

● Led a team of 4 designers, driving the project’s direction from ideation to execution and
collaborating with leadership and stakeholders to deliver an immersive, procedural museum
experience about never-before-seen photos from post WW2 Japan.
● Conducted 15 interviews & concept evaluations, and 10 user tests, rapidly prototyping and going
through 10+ iterations over 3 months to produce a vertical slice of an interactive VR experience.
● Prototyped the experience in Unity, integrating eye-tracking for gaze-based interactions that
enhanced the user’s engagement by responding to their eye gaze.
● Presented an interactive VR prototype to museum directors and aligned the project with the
museum’s goals of innovation, education, and historical significance, securing exhibition space in
a tight schedule.

### Interaction Designer @ Maria Mortati Experience Design
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Design, research, and development of multi-sensory experiences meant for the Memory Care Experience Station, a large scale interactive experience at a senior care living facility. Designing physical and digital experiences, along with the UX redesign of a digital media library to accompany the experience station.

● Designed and rapidly prototyped 10+ large-scale physical & digital multi-sensory experiences,
with 4 shipped, to enhance sensory stimulation for 83 residents living with Alzheimer’s in a
memory care facility.
● Redesigned the UX of the content library, implementing a profile and playlists system to enhance
personalization, making note-taking and resident tracking more efficient for nurses.
● Over 200 evaluation sessions demonstrated overwhelmingly positive feedback, with nurses
reporting increased energy and social interaction for residents.

### Product Designer @ Virdio
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Product design for a SaaS live AR workout platform on desktop, mobile, and tablet. Creating early wireframes based on market research and user interviews, iterating based on internal and user feedback, creating high fidelity interactive prototypes and live user testing with real users.

● Led end-to-end product design for a SaaS AR fitness app that utilized ML. Collaborating closely with
the lead developer and CEO to ship apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and MacOS on a tight
deadline.
● Developed the design system from scratch, ensuring consistent UI/UX across mobile, TV, and
desktop apps, and AR experiences. Referenced Apple tvOS guidelines for large screen UI.
● Designed AR setup experiences and 10+ AR fitness experiences for web and mobile devices,
ensuring consistent AR tracking and experiences for a variety of configurations.

### User Experience Researcher @ Duality Robotics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
User Experience research for an AI simulation platform.

### Interaction Designer @ Maria Mortati Experience Design
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
Design and research for a multi-modal, full-body interactive project in a clinical setting for people living with disabilities. Performed research and provided insights. Built proof-of-concept prototypes to enhance remote communication.


## Education
### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction
University of Washington, Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### University of Washington
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design
California College of the Arts
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hridae
- Website: www.hridaew.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-07