Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
Kalyani Tupkary
@kalyanitupkary
I design objects and interfaces - sometimes real, sometimes fictional.
When I diagram, I start by setting a diagrammatic intention. This provides focus as I research the audience I seek to serve and set the diagrammatic scope that best aligns to those decisions at the diagrammatic scale I am working at.
I lead and manage the design team behind FigJam at Figma. I designed and brought FigJam to market, built out our early career hiring program, and hosted Config, our annual user conference.
I’m a weird, block-shaped designer. I’m good at taking a lot of disparate information and turning it into something that people just get.
The unit operates on a number of levels: collaborative research projects, commissions, self-initiated projects, and taught studio classes, all disseminated through talks, exhibitions and publications.
Designed Realities Lab
Dunne & Raby

A first step is to entertain possible selves:29 identify some people you admire within or outside your field, and observe what they actually do at work day by day. A second step is to develop hypotheses about how these paths might align with your own interests, skills, and values. A third step is to test out the different identities by running
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