Asit Parida

I design and build tools that make complex work feel simple.

UX Engineer Master in HCI 10+ years across Amazon, Microsoft and VMware

4 Recent products, needfinding to production
0% Reduction in OPEX costs in 1Y after Metrics Hub
0% CSAT in first six months after launch of Inquiry Hub
0 UMUX Score in first two month of Newsletter App

AI-First Experiments

What if web forms had sounds?

Sonify Elements · Open Source · 2026

A zero-dependency Web Audio library that adds subtle, synthesized sound feedback to native HTML form elements. No audio files — just real-time synthesis. Five sound profiles, DTMF phone tones, pitch-mapped sliders, per-element opt-out.

What if 3D scenes lived in the DOM?

Boxels · Open Source · 2026

A CSS 3D boxel engine that composes interactive scenes entirely from DOM divs. Textures, boolean operations, edge fusion that culls 90% of internal faces, per-face styling, and orbit controls. Zero dependencies.

Long-Form Work

Writing Canvas

Surfacing Design Insight · Amazon · 2026

Every AI writing tool pulls the author out of their document. I designed an editor where AI lives inside the content itself.

Inquiry Hub

Driving Strategic Prototyping · Amazon · 2025

Prioritized customer enquiries were too complex to spec on paper. I built a strategic prototype that validated the interaction model and convinced stakeholders to fund the build.

Newsletter Studio

Delivering Technical Craft · Amazon · 2024

Email rendering is broken by design. Outlook uses Word's engine, Gmail strips your styles. I built an authoring platform on MJML that guarantees consistent rendering.

Metrics Hub

Architecting Systems at Scale · Amazon · 2023

Monthly metric decks for the C-suite and Board required dozens of people and weeks of coordination. When someone left, their metrics vanished. I designed the platform that replaced it.

Sensemaking

Grounding in Research · CMU MHCI Capstone · 2019

Researchers can collect endlessly, but turning that pile into an original idea is where they get stuck. An 8-month capstone with Prof. Niki Kittur at CMU.

Earlier work →

About

Most AI tools bolt a chatbot onto the side of your workflow and call it done.

I'm interested in the alternate question: how do you weave AI into the actual surface where people work — their document, their dashboard, their review process — so it helps without interrupting? That's the design problem I've spent the last three years on at Amazon, building four products used by C-suite, Board, and VP-level leadership.

Before Amazon, I studied HCI at Carnegie Mellon with Niki Kittur, researching how people synthesize scattered information into new knowledge. That research directly shaped how I think about AI-assisted authoring today. Before that, I shipped enterprise platforms at Microsoft and VMware for four years — timekeeping, cloud migration, accessibility consulting, and infrastructure modernization.

What stays constant: I find the real problem through observation and data — not just stated briefs — design multiple solutions, discard most of them, and ship the one that fits the resourcing, scope, and timeline while solving the actual pain point. Research through production. That's the job.

Contact

Open to design engineering, AI product, and research collaborations.