Apoorva Avadhana
Apoorva Avadhana is a user experience designer who works across accessibility, interaction design, research, and sustainability. She's doing a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and holds a Bachelor's in Human-Centered Design from Srishti.
She presented a paper, "Plural Navigation," at OzCHI 2019 in Australia. As an Accessibility Researcher at Sensorium AI she built voice interfaces and augmentative experiences for neurodivergent people and people with cerebral palsy. At IBM, as a UX researcher and designer, she led research and development work that improved accessibility for clients including the Trustee Savings Bank in the UK and MetLife in the US.
She now works as a teaching assistant for Intro to Assistive Tech, giving technical and conceptual support in accessibility and inclusive design, and as a graduate researcher at The Ability Project, where she's designing accessible navigation tools for the NYU campus. From 2014 to 2018 she also co-founded Dance2Konnect, a student-led initiative that used dance to support underprivileged communities.
Apoorva is self-assured, easy to collaborate with, and gloriously spontaneous about naming her variables and programs. With her master's nearly done, I'm looking forward to what she does next in UX.