Paawan Kapdi
I am especially interested in using AI and data visualisation together. I like thinking about what a product can learn from user behaviour, how AI can make sense of that data, and how design can show it back through visuals, motion, summaries, or nudges. I want those insights to feel simple enough to notice, useful enough to return to, and practical enough for everyday choices.
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Paawan Kapdi, Prospr: AI Gem Companions for Student Engagement
Prospr is a student engagement app that uses AI companions to help students process class material, surface confusion, and turn everyday learning into useful insight. Students choose from four AI Gem siblings: Jade, Saph, Amber, and Ruby. Each Gem has a distinct tone for post-class reflection. These chats become weekly journals, monthly learning recaps, doubts-to-clear lists, and mentor dashboard summaries. Attendance and streak data add context to the reflection pattern, so staff can notice changes sooner.
This project helped me understand how AI can collect qualitative learning signals and turn them into summaries, alerts, and visualisations that support both students and mentors.
Paawan Kapdi, Unspun: AI-Assisted Reflection for Critical News Viewing
Unspun is a reflection tool for people who watch long-form news and want to think more critically about what they consume. The YouTube overlay marks moments that may include framing, bias, or claims worth questioning while the video keeps playing. After watching, users open a flagged moment and read why it was marked. They then see three open-ended and non-judgemental questions to ponder upon. They can also use AI to assist them with reflection. The chat responds to what they say and asks follow-up questions based on their previous responses. Monthly reports show reflection patterns.
This project helped me design AI as a way to support interpretation, uncertainty, and personal judgement.
Paawan Kapdi, Perception and Abstraction at MOHA
This project is an exhibition app for Perception and Abstraction, a show hosted by the MOHA museum. Visitors can browse artists, read about artworks, and move from a piece into merchandise inspired by that artwork. They can customise the product, preview the order, and complete checkout in the same journey. The interface uses optical modernism, strong contrast, geometric structure, and MOHA red for key actions and tags.
This project gave me a first-hand look at how retail user flows work. I learned how to draw users in through content, build interest around a product, support personalisation, and guide them toward a purchase without breaking the experience.
Paawan Kapdi, Weather + Timer: Playful UI for Everyday Utilities
Weather + Timer is a pair of utility apps where I explored playful UI through concept, motion, and interaction feedback. The weather app represents weather as an immersive city atmosphere that changes with real-time conditions. Users move through various cities and read the forecast through colour, landscape, mood, and a dynamic moving background.
The timer app represents time as a fragile ecosystem that deteriorates as the countdown reaches zero. Users set the timer through Blinky, a three-eyed fish, and watch the underwater background keep moving as the world slowly breaks down.
This project helped me understand how playful interfaces can communicate state and urgency through motion.
Paawan Kapdi, Addressing Cyberbullying: Dynamic Infographic for Social Awareness
It is a dynamic infographic created to spread awareness about a social issue that many people experience but may not fully understand. The animation turns the message into a clear visual story, using scenes that unfold one after another so viewers can follow the issue without reading long blocks of text. Each moment is designed to pull attention forward, show the impact of online harm, and make the message easy to remember after the video ends. This project helped me understand how animation can make difficult topics more accessible.
It also strengthened my ability to use storytelling and micro-interactions to guide attention in digital products.
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