I don't make things.
I make you feel things.
HCI Researcher · Builder · Author
THE ALIVE
INTERFACE
I'm Vijayarka — HCI researcher, builder, and writer.
I don't separate thinking from building from writing. An idea comes — I find the right form for it. Sometimes that's a research paper. Sometimes it's a prose poetry book. Sometimes it's a game where you're blind and sound is your only weapon.
Everything I make is designed to give you an experience you didn't know you needed.
ideas don't wait for permission — they arrive, and you find them a form
Tenet
A private, emotion-tracking digital journal that feels with you. Tenet translates your emotional state into a visual color-based interface that shifts and breathes in real-time. No cloud syncing — your thoughts never leave your device.
DesignRx
An AI-powered diagnostic tool for developers. DesignRx scans your frontend code to give an "Honest Read" of the website's personality, prescribing interactive fixes to align the design with your desired feeling.
MAWO
Mastery & Achievement Workflow Optimizer — a habit tracker built on neuroscience, not streaks. Evolves its interface through 5 phases, turning motivation decay into visible, earned progress.
Draftbook
An AI writing assistant for fiction writers built around silent feedback — the AI reads what you write and surfaces suggestions without breaking your flow. No prompts. No interruptions.
Self-Narrating Neural Networks
Research tackling the interpretability crisis. By attaching a secondary language model to the decision layer of a vision network, the AI narrates its thought process in real-time during training.
Ek Indian Bacha
A free browser-based satire game about the Indian student experience. Features a Rishtedaar Meter, Hinglish dialogue, a hidden Arts ending.
Writer's Assistant
A personal AI shaped around how writers actually think — six modes, one tool: Creative, Storytelling, Poetry, Academic, Business, Grammar. Built entirely without code.
Tailored Poems
Android app that generates personalized poems based on emotions. Received official repost from A0.dev.
Echo
You are blind. Press SPACE to emit a sonar pulse — for 6 seconds the dark reveals itself. But every pulse broadcasts your location to the hunters. Headphones required. Built in pure JavaScript.
Logbook
Your private second brain. Dump a thought, a link, a feeling, a line of code — a hand-written NLP engine auto-tags it into 9 categories instantly. 100% localStorage. No cloud, no account. Not even the creator can see what you write.
three zenodo DOIs. published preprints. real ones.
moving pictures — YouTube, because sometimes writing isn't enough
"Some equations can't be solved
with variables alone —
some need a heartbeat."
— Newton's Law of Love
two books, one audio series — because some things can only be felt through words
Where Science
Meets the Heart
Books, a guide, and an audio series. Pull a spine — or press play.
of Love
of Love
Newton's Law of Love
What if every heartbreak had a formula? Prose poetry that maps loss through the grammar of physics — gravity, velocity, force. The science of the unsaid.
Read on Amazon KindleGet It Right
Get It Right
Write It Right, Get It Right
A beginner-friendly guide to giving AI the right instructions. Prompt structure, real examples, 20 copy-paste templates, and 10 practice exercises. Works with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — any AI.
Open Freeof Love
of Love
The Chemistry of Love
Love as a reaction. Heartbreak as entropy. Prose poetry that translates the language of chemistry into the language of feeling — what bonds, what dissolves, what remains.
Read on Amazon KindleEchoes
When he is suddenly summoned into a world like ancient India — his magical powers make him the most powerful being imaginable. But not in the way you think. An episodic audio fiction series, still unfolding.
Listen on PocketFM↑ pull a spine or press play
SKILLSET
— tap to open —
the origin story — how all of this came to be
Journey &
Recognition
Newton's Law of Love and The Chemistry of Love — two prose poetry books on Amazon Kindle, mapping love through the grammar of physics and chemistry.
Ancient Echoes — an episodic audio fiction series on PocketFM set in a world like ancient India.
Three published preprints on Zenodo.
Across YouTube, Medium, Wattpad, and Instagram — technical thinking meets narrative, long-form stories, and ideas made visual.
NSLV-19 — GPS, barometric, and radiation sensor integration for real atmospheric data collection at altitude.