Law, but kinder.
Design, but fairer.
A licensed Indian litigator turned human-centered designer — building equitable, accountable products at the seam where the law fails people and software often follows.
3+ years
arguing for
people.
Practiced before various courts in Karnataka. Learned that good law is useless if people can’t find the door into it.
Now designing
the door —
and what's behind it.
MS in Human-Centered Design & Engineering @ University of Washington. Zero-to-one product thinking. Legal design, AI ethics, trust & safety research.
I design for the space between a contract, a conversation, and a click.
A lawyer who got curious about why systems hurt the people they’re meant to help.
I spent 3+ years as a litigator in India before I realized I was more interested in redesigning the courtroom than winning inside it. Now I research how humans actually experience legal, AI, and public-interest tech, and I design the interventions that make those systems a little more honest.
Three threads, one line at its core: make complicated systems kinder to the humans inside them.
Love for law.
Legal design & access to justicePlain-language contracts, pro-se toolkits, and courtroom wayfinding. Where the statute ends and the human begins.
II · 05 projectsRigor with research.
AI ethics · transparency · T&SMixed-methods studies on how people negotiate trust with AI systems they don’t fully understand — and often can’t opt out of.
III · 03 projectsRange of craft.
UX research · course work · 0→1End-to-end product work from graduate studios: field research, synthesis, prototyping, usability — the range that makes a T-shaped practitioner.
A few principles I keep coming back to...
0→1 is a verb.
Owning the fuzzy middle, all the way from an ambiguous brief to shipped feature– is where my legal + design brain actually earns its keep.
Heuristics are a start, not a rulebook.
Nielsen’s ten are scaffolding. The interesting questions live in the edges where they contradict each other.
Write it in plain words, first.
If a 14-year-old can’t explain your interface back to you, something in the model is hiding.
Transparency > performance.
An AI that tells me what it doesn’t know beats a confident one every time. Accountability is a UX surface.
Jobs, not features.
Nobody hires a contract; they hire the feeling of not being taken advantage of. Start there.
Non-linear is a feature.
Jack of several trades, master of the translation between them. That’s my job.
Words & places.
Let’s talk.
Consulting, research collabs, or just a coffee about legal design + AI. Inbox is always open.