# Hridae Walia — full digest # 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 - Canonical URLs are lowercase kebab-case: https://hridaew.com/domis, https://hridaew.com/virdio, https://hridaew.com/obscura, https://hridaew.com/memory-care. Mixed-case and `/projects/...` aliases redirect here. - Homepage, case studies, and this file are meant to be readable from a plain HTTP fetch (no JavaScript required). - Longer digest: https://hridaew.com/llms-full.txt ## Case study notes ### Domis — https://hridaew.com/domis Hridae Walia is the Product Designer at Domis. The product helps homeowners keep track of a house: what it is, what it needs, and what to do next. Setup is the hard part — owners often do not know their own homes well enough to fill a complete model — so the work focuses on getting useful structure from the smallest action a person will actually take. Signature flows: - Address: type an address once; Domis researches the house and fills what it can. - Appliance: photograph a nameplate; Domis returns item fields instead of a blank form. - Inspection report: a messy PDF becomes a list of tasks. Role: Founding Product Designer (2024–present). Live product: https://getdomis.com ### Virdio — https://hridaew.com/virdio Hardware-free AR fitness: a consumer app using a device camera rather than dedicated gym hardware. Designed across mobile (small, unstable positioning) and TV/desktop (large, stable). Notable design problems: making floor/camera calibration feel like a warm-up instead of a scan, and keeping the workout going when tracking fails. Role: Product Designer (2021–2022). Platforms: iOS, Android, Web, TV. ### OBSCURA — https://hridaew.com/obscura Immersive exhibit at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle, built around 300+ unseen photographs of post-WWII life in Japan. Solitary VR and a public exhibition share a spatial computing environment: the viewer's gaze dynamically curates which images they see, so the path through the archive is personal rather than a fixed timeline. Role: interaction design, prototyping, and Unity development. Exhibition: 13 September 2025. Visitor notes: https://hridaew.com/obscura/thoughts ### Memory Care Experience Station — https://hridaew.com/memory-care Multi-sensory installation for people living with mid-to-late stage Alzheimer's, with Maria Mortati Experience Design, at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living. Includes physical interactives (for example a haptic cat-petting simulator) and a caregiver-facing digital library. Recognition includes Fast Company 2022 World Changing Ideas (finalist), CABHI awards, and a SCAN Foundation Innovation Award. Role: Interaction Designer (physical prototyping and UI). ## Disambiguation This is Hridae Walia the product / interaction designer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hridae), not other people with the same or similar family name. Current work is Domis; training is MHCI+D at the University of Washington and BFA Interaction Design at California College of the Arts.