Open to senior & freelance roles

Sumanth Udupi — Data Scientist & Product Designer

I design the interface and build the model behind it — case studies you can use, dashboards you can drive, and design essays you can touch.

  • 9 case studies
  • 10 immersive essays
  • everything live on this site
  • 9Case studiesworking software, live on this site
  • 9Interactive exhibitsdashboards & models you can drive
  • 10Immersive essaysdesign history, hands-on
  • 52+Library entriesa year-long design curriculum

Evidence, not adjectives.

Every case study runs live inside this site — dashboards you can filter, models you can drive, interfaces you can judge for yourself.

One person, both halves.

The interface and the model behind it are usually two hires. Here they are one practice — each discipline sharpening the other.

Data Science & ML

Exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and classification models — reported with honest metrics, never just accuracy.

  • Python
  • pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • Jupyter

Analytics & BI

KPI layers in SQL, executive dashboards in Tableau and Power BI — the full path from warehouse query to stakeholder slide.

  • SQL
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Excel

Data Visualization

Charts as arguments: the form chosen by the question, color and layout treated as analysis decisions, not polish.

  • matplotlib
  • seaborn
  • plotly
  • SVG

UX Engineering

Design systems and interfaces shipped as working software — mobile-first, accessible, and fast. This site is the demo.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Framer Motion

Ten essays you can touch.

Each topic of design history becomes an immersive page with its own cinematic identity — and interactions that teach the principle by hand.

01Functional Minimalism

Less, but better.

Rams’s Braun T3 → iPod → Linear. Strip a 1955 console radio down to the T3, and flip the ET66 calculator into the iPhone.

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02The Grid & Bauhaus

The Grid Is the Truth.

Bauhaus Dessau → repeat(12, 1fr). Snap a designed-by-eye page onto the rails and reflow a card layout across 4/8/12 columns.

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03Swiss Style

Helvetica Is a Weapon.

Müller-Brockmann’s 1958 Musica Viva poster → the blueprint grid. A live type-scale explorer and Ruder’s line-length test.

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04Organic Architecture

Of the Hill, Not On It.

Fallingwater’s compression-and-release entry → progressive disclosure. Walk the sequence, then layer a 40-setting page yourself.

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05Streamline Moderne

Speed Made Solid.

Loewy’s S-1 locomotive → the pill button. A corner-radius dial from machine to capsule, and the nested-radius golden formula.

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06Mid-Century Modern

Built to Fit the Body.

The Eames Lounge’s flexing shells → thumb zones and 44px targets. A reach-map audit and a Fitts’s Law tap lab that counts your misses.

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07Affordance Theory

The Handle Tells the Hand.

Norman’s lying hotel door → click triggers. Push the door yourself, then interrogate six UI suspects for false affordances.

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08Neo-Memphis

Good Taste Is a Cage.

Sottsass’s Carlton bookcase → expressive UI. Flip a promo card between beige and Memphis, then spend the delight budget like Kahneman.

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09Deconstructivism

There Are 360 Degrees.

Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center → the continuous canvas. Shear a layout through three geometries and pan a camera-based page.

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10Wabi-Sabi

The Beauty of the Crack.

Rikyū’s raku bowl → textured portfolios. Crack it, mend it in gold, and turn the ma dial until the page starts breathing.

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Work with me

Need someone who designs the interface and builds the model behind it?

That intersection is my job description. Everything you just used on this site — the dashboards, the models, the essays — is the interview.