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hello! i’m hawa here you can explore my chaotic , but fun life, mind, & interests
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design projects
this summer, i’ve been diving deep into visual, interaction, and product design, focusing on building a strong foundation in visual craft while sharpening my product thinking through explorations, critiques, and exercises.
this page will collect my ongoing projects from quick experiments to deeper case studies & documenting my growth as i explore what great design means to me and how to craft products that feel both thoughtful and inevitable.
this page will be updated soon.
Google Meet Agenda Design
Reimagining meeting efficiency through context and collective ownership
MindfulMates: Robots for Relationships
Enhancing communication between couples using robots.
people who inspire me 💌
thank you to everyone who continues to inspire me everyday! be it past students, TAs, peers at school, professors, friends, uber drivers, strangers, baristas and more :)
My parents, Siblings, Yuquan Deng, Manasa Lingireddy, Andrey Risukhin, Judy Kang, Grace Jun, Adam Towers, Avni Rao, Raghav Narula, Ellie Marsh, Meera Patel, Sashiv Bhatina, Parsa Khazaeepoul, Kianna Bolante, Anissa Abu-Hadba, Jason Guo, Angela Wu, Sam Dore, Isabelle Reksopuro, Aiden Bai, Japeheth Seifu, Francisco Neto (my Uber driver from Brazil!), Aisha Cora, Kyle Johnson, Clare Edmonds, Molly Cantillon, Aruna Srivastava, Tiffany Horter, Layla Airola, Kai Daniels, Eyad Alsilimy, Ian Cooper, Andre Ye, Iris Zhou, Eric Yeh, Sonia Fereidooni, Aryan Mahindra, Sofia Barry, Vi Le, Jennifer Duong, Tiffany Wong, Kevin Farhat, Tiffany Yan, Huayue (Lucia) Zou, Jaela Field, Arman Mohammed, Lindi Rubadiri-Mujugira, Maria Cervantes, Gagan Singh, Elisha Jeon, Aditi Jain, Dasha Orlov, Niyati Trivedi, Marco Gardida Cortes, Yasmine Shubber, Shiina Sugioka, Martin Johnson, Vani Agarwal, Ahmed Ghaddah, Fardeem Munir, Eyoel Gebre, Hana Smahi, Joey Krueger, Ankith Tunuguntla, Yerim Heo, Cristian Garay, Hannah Jiang, Romero Hutapea, Ruhee Rajwani, Mekedes Dejenie, Varun Agrawal, Chaytan Inman, Sorrel Alvason, Jake Harper, Farah Ali, Kurtis Heimerl, Youssef Ben Taleb, Elias Belzberg, Tia Bjornson, Sydney Lai, Gurucharan Lingamallu, Abselom Sultanu, Alan Leong, Gen Sakura, Mya Baker, Jana Radwan, Alexandra Debow, Nithi Byreddy, Caleb John, Farhan Khan, Jamari Morrison, Luna Chen, Jenny Peng, Paulo Nascimento, Chloe Dolese Mandeville, Lee Janzen Moral, Ariel Fu, Sreshth Kharbanda, Samudra Mowar, Tamara Enriquez, Arya Sanjay, Kevin Zatloukal, Heer Patel, Amy Zhang, Carter Swartout, Farrel Sudrajat, Amy Lu, Daniel Sunn Kim, James Livingston, Eric Xiao, Connor Maginnis, Yali Mu, Sukhmanreet Kaur, Ivan Artyukhov, Deeksha Vatwani, Abby Tran, Jessica Wang, Nila Keri, Harshitha Rebala, Ashrith Bandla, Zeynep Toprakbasti, Jonus Li, Sara Wu, Maria Protogeru, Brett Wortzman, Isabel Froelich, James Froelich, Aya Griswold, Benjamin Zhang, Camila Morales, Shawn Collinge, Elijah Melton, Chris Thachuk, Sophia Lin, Wesley Dela Cruz, Madi Nguyen, John Nguyen, Aditi Rana, Catherine Rasgaitis, Sheikh Fazal Hassan, Muallima Bahiyya, Jumana Fathima, Khanh Nguyen, Arhan Jain, Anaya Pandit, Samuel Purnama, Afifah Kashif, Nika Samsavar, Dana Alsarabi, Chloe Wong, Anthony Chung, Siddharth Thiagarajan, Mike Fridgen, Grace Brigham, Jay Bartot, Diego Carreterro Alvarez, Jacquline Li, Fiona W. , Praveer Jain, Kulbir Singh, Pranav Teegavarapu, Keira Wong, Eman Mustefa, Yunseo (Lucas) Lee, Rodrigo Ibarra, Noa Uritsky, Leah Jia, Jack Luo, Amal Sorathia, Krithika Satish, Nuha Qadir, Prisha Ambekar, Sia Razdan, Sam Scalia, Austin Lee, Kevin Wu, Mabel Kwok, Margaret Li, TIm Avilov, Matt Lau, Caleb Hu, Anika Tara Rao, Kelvin Ng, Takanori Futagi, Noel Wittner, Madeline Brumley, Vera Chuang, Shakti Senthil, Walid Sheykho, Timothy Zhong, Therese Pena Pacio, Andrew Nakamoto, Ameya Agrawal, Audrey Tseng, Kevin Xiao, Nate Bek, Jack Regala, Nick Khormaei, Vanya Dimri, Iman Nilfiroush, Huong Nguyen, Swathi M. , Hugh March, Annika Singh, Vishal Canumalla, Logan Dinh, Rupok Ghosh, Antonio Ballesteros, Azaan Khalfe, Palbir Singh, Franchesca Nicole Lazaro, Andrea Chen, Nicole Sullivan, Sulaiman Shabain, Amay Bansal, Angelo Duaz, Athena Ortega, Tim Avilov, Aydan (from twitter), Ryu Parish, Ethan Leonard, Justin Liao, David Kim, Daniel Bejar, Jintae Cho, Megana Kommareddy, Paul Stevans, Tamara Jaber, Xavier Dixon, Chairnet Muche, Anusha Gani, Rida Khan, Dawit Hailu, Phil Bedford, Chaitanya Sekhar, Amie Touray, Lalia Baldeh, Thang Huynh (TAYYY), Richie Doan, Chanh Truong, Raiden Santos, Varun Ananth, Hans Easton, Matthew Santos, Saleh Wehelie, Yafqa Khan, Andrew Cheung, Trang Tran, Karyna, Kevin Vasquez, Claire Li, Hemil Patel, Aarav Wadhwani, Shubhi Handa, Aditya Akhileshwaran, Nabilah Ahmad, Sharan Jhangiani, Saara Uthmaan, Matt Deitke, Natasha Jacques, Jove Winston Pendapotan, Bayan Farag, Ayesha Khan, Srushti Adesara, Isaiah Hogland, Kanha Bhatt, Luke Sorvik, Vinod Dayalan, Raghav Muddur, Jonathan Thomas, Vaishali Koul, Teresita Paltep, Kimia Nehchiri, Noor Shatnawi, Betsy Garcia, Azaelea Garcia, Will Hunt, Beta Chen, Kai Green, Bowang Lan, Rich Chen, Alina Yusaf, Zanoor Yusaf, Savanna Yee, Seonjun Moon, Hector Rodriguez, Aditya Khowal, Erika Ni, Raymond Yu, Benya Vahdat, Rayouf Alhumedhi, Shahvir Sarkary, Kiana Ehsani, Shaheer Sandhu, Pranav Madhukar, Stacy Brewer, Patty Fotheringham, Cherish Gortner, Miriam Zeghmi, Nasteho Wasuge, Liza Zakhorava, Thomas Masar, Omar Waseem, Mufti Menk, Grey Sunderland, Erik Suokko, The Nguyen Family (John, Peter, their parents), Diandre Miguel Sabale, Bailey Edgley, Matt Stokes, Zaha Hadid, Paul Spatafore, Janani Raghavan, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, Cathy Elder, Grant Tannert, Hitesh Boinpally, Ziao Yin, Gary Guo, Alicia Beatty, Yash Mishra, Danielle Strachman, Logan Boyd, Dhruv Bansal, Riva Gore, Meiyao Li, Hasan Mangrio, Isabel Amaya, Shengyao Liu, Afra Nehal, Emma Li, Abby Tran, Edwin Nino Delgado, Paul Graham ♡ , Haya Odeh, Furqan Rydhan, Suchir Balaji, Molly Mielke, all the cseed buildspace cohort ppl & SO MANY MORE ppl. will regularly update.
i like putting money into things & people i believe in, when i'm not broke LOL . i do this through the animation fund and other ways. reach out if you create things from the soul and not for hype ♡ no strings attached!!
٭ reese chong is building torial, a free text-to-Manim video generator that brings your course material to life.
٭ maya lekhi and palak agarwal hosted them first ever stupid ideas hackathon in seattle !!
٭ hammaad memon: hammaad is building txt2latex, a web editor that converts natural language to both math symbols and LaTex.
٭ claire li: i will basically invest in claire in any lifetime for any endeavor. building wearable device applications, pinpots(fun location based image sharing),& research doing simulation-driven control for data center networks
٭ pranav madhukar: pranav is building meteor - the world's first agentic browser
٭ elvin fu: elvin has taught over 20 million students game development. he is also building codewisp - an AI powered beginner game dev platform!
٭ aruna srivastava: i will basically invest in aruna in any lifetime for any endeavor. building koel labs, helping people master pronunciation using their favorite classic movie scenes.
٭ kanha korgaonkar: kanha is rethinking how word processors work, by building laurelin, the first product to change documents in the post-AI world
٭ jove pendapotan, samuel purnama, & reuben santoso: building bilby, a note-taking tool that uses OCR + LLMs to turn screenshots into clean, structured lecture notes, cutting note-taking time by up to 90%. early demo
٭ naisha sinha: hosted a q&a with the los angeles lakers team for students to learn about a career in sports technology
٭ atd design fraternity: alpha theta delta is the world’s first professional interdisciplinary design fraternity, bringing creatives together to build community and design for the future
٭ mukund senthil kumar: mukund is building autonomous racecars that race like mario kart in adjustable tracks
٭ arturo lopez chavez & alan santiago: building H.A.D.E.S: a hyper-accurate aerial defense engagement system
٭ kawsu @ kids in technology: mentoring the next generation of inventors in the gambia, west africa, through hardware, robotics, and programming
٭ colton carroll: designed & built programmable christmas light bracelets to make evergreen church’s holiday light shows more interactive
٭ alba navarro yu, jia ruparel, & smriti kallahalla: prototyped safety tools and systems to help people feel more safe. pivoted to AI medical app!
٭ jake harper: designed and built a full DIY photobooth with his best friend
٭ cseed ofc LOL
٭ yash mishra, mark pock, alexander young: launched the philosophy club @ UW to question everything from AI to ethics. check out their recent podcast with oren etzioni
٭ pranav teegavarapu, keira wong, myself (hehe), eyoel gebre: co-hosting saturdays.rsvp, a collective of makers and a weekly space for side projects
٭ avni rao, prisha ambekar, samantha scalia: ran dreamers day, a hands-on STEM workshop for middle school girls
٭ shakti senthil: hosted a women in CS trivia night to build bonds
٭ praveer jain, vishnu iyengar: expanded the husky squash club with free lessons for UW students
i have a huge interest in creative tools for thought + writing tools that help us create unique outputs