Hansika's Portfolio

Selected Works

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User Research | UI/UX Design |Rapid Ideation to Prototyping

An ethical tourism application encouraging users to make more ethical and sustainable decisions when they travel.

Verdelier

An e-commerce mobile app focussing on sustainable fashion, incorporating genAI in the design and research process.

GenAI in UX | UI/UX Design

End-to-end Product Design

The Pour Room

A luxury cocktail vending machine designed to elevate high-end events by turning the bar experience into a seamless, elegant interaction with reduced wait times and miscommunication.

Visual Design | Branding

UI/UX + 3D Design | Product Design

Research Publications

The Shift Towards Inclusion and Accessibility: The Impact of Inclusive Design on UX Career Preparation

Taylor Mone Smith, Earl W. Huff Jr., Hansika Murugu

ASEE 2025

Long-Form Answers to Visual Question from Blind and Low Vision People

Mina Huh, Fangyuan Xu, Yi-Hao Peng, Chongyan Chen, Hansika Murugu, Danna Gurari, Eunsol Choi, Amy Pavel

COLM 2024, Oral Spotlight (Top 2%)

Design stories are better shared

Happy to chat, collaborate, or just say hello!

hmurugu@umd.edu

Product designer driven by research, transforming complex challenges into user-centered, inclusive solutions that scale with impact, fueled by storytelling and a good beverage! Currently pursuing a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Maryland, College Park.

Product designer driven by research, transforming complex challenges into user-centered, inclusive solutions that scale with impact, fueled by storytelling and a good beverage!

Currently pursuing a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Maryland, College Park.