THE NEW YORK TIMES

DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST · 6-WEEK CAPSTONE

A conversational news redesign through AI curation, voice prompts, and editorial modes that match how people actually read, with voice-prompted discovery and LLM curated content.

Discoverability and user-controlled automation built trust, then content consumption followed

Reading Modes

Topic Exploration→Get out of Personalised topics→No curation

4–5x

articles scanned in Catchup

75%

preferred 3-min AI summaries

AVIRA DIGITAL

AI DESIGN ENGINEER · 3 MONTHS

A multi-enterprise control layer for AI agents, Athena gives organizations visibility, governance, and cost attribution across every agent, every role, and every business unit.

Every organization has AI tools, but there is no architecture to scale and monitor the agents.

Athena Core

AI Orchestration

AI Orchestration

Control Center

Control Center

Guardrail Check

Guardrail Check

MCP-Native

MCP-Native

Human Escalation

Human Escalation

2

AI systems designed from scratch

0→1

design-to-prototype for clients

2

Data lineage built with teams

CATOPS

CATOps is an AI agent operations dashboard. Agents have status, skills, tasks, and handoffs; token usage is modeled as a shared treat budget with per-agent limits.

The point: agent spaces usually hide cost, this project surfaces it while breaking from templates UI for AI.

LUMINARY

FULL STACK ENGINEER

A vertical infinite reel feed where historical figures, da Vinci, Curie, Turing, explain one idea per clip. Every saved reel gets a quiz, turning passive doomscrolling into education.

How do you turn an irresistible scroll habit into intentional learning, without making it feel like homework?

Learning Loop

01 / 03
↕
Scroll
You're already in the feed
02 / 03
◈
Save Clip
Something actually sticks
03 / 03
✎
Quiz
Prove you absorbed it
01 / 03
↕
Scroll
You're already in the feed
02 / 03
◈
Save Clip
Something actually sticks
03 / 03
✎
Quiz
Prove you absorbed it
01 / 03
↕
Scroll
You're already in the feed
02 / 03
◈
Save Clip
Something actually sticks
03 / 03
✎
Quiz
Prove you absorbed it
01 / 03
↕
Scroll
You're already in the feed
02 / 03
◈
Save Clip
Something actually sticks
03 / 03
✎
Quiz
Prove you absorbed it
01 / 03
↕
Scroll
You're already in the feed
02 / 03
◈
Save Clip
Something actually sticks
03 / 03
✎
Quiz
Prove you absorbed it
↺ Learning Loop

1 day

built at Multimodal Hacks · NYTechWeek

3

person team

I might have taken vibe-coding too enthusiastically,

but I build AI experiences that are dependable, not just intelligent.

I might have taken vibe-coding too enthusiastically,

but I build AI experiences that are dependable, not just intelligent.

Get in touch

trishapawar23@gmail.com