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I'm Nishtha Das, originally from India, and now a graduate student in the M.Sc Human-Computer Interaction program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

With my background in Computer Science, I'm looking to combine my love for technical problem-solving with human-centered design. 

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    <li>elaborate theme parties</li>
    <li>all kinds of breads and cheeses</li>
    <li>reading unbearably slow</li>
    <li>font pairing until failure</li>
    <li>plant parenting</li>
    <li>minecraft: as a game and culture</li>
    <li>life-threatening water sports</li>
    <li>speed typing (~100 wpm 😎)</li>
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  <ul class="interests">
    <li>elaborate theme parties</li>
    <li>all kinds of breads and cheeses</li>
    <li>reading unbearably slow</li>
    <li>font pairing until failure</li>
    <li>plant parenting</li>
    <li>minecraft: as a game and culture</li>
    <li>life-threatening water sports</li>
    <li>speed typing (~100 wpm 😎)</li>
  </ul>
</oversharing>

On loop lately

Over 3 years of designing and building interfaces, I've grown my toolkit beyond baseline HTML/CSS/JS and Figma - in the following areas:

Research

Interaction

Visual

Development

Skills and tools

Python

R

Adobe Photoshop

Heuristic evaluation

Data visualisation

Adobe XD

Accessibility testing

Information architecture

Siteimprove

Sketch

WAVE

C

3D design

Digital ethnography

Motion design

Data synthesis

And more…