UX researcher by day, internet scuba diver by night.
I'm Harshali Wadge — a UX researcher at Amazon Web Services, where I support the Identity and Cloud Governance space. I run mixed-methods research for complex B2B cloud products and think a lot about how people make sense of the tools they're handed.
Before tech I was a cognitive scientist. I studied Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley and Human–Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech, and spent my early years running EEG studies and chasing statistically significant trends. While I no longer study the brain, I still love studying people. The difference now is that I get to both understand human problems and build technology solutions.
This site is my corner of the internet — part portfolio, part diary. I have a lot of thoughts about the world around me: some opinions, some educated hypotheses, some observations from the slivers of my reality. They'll evolve, and this is where I capture that evolution in (somewhat) real time.
- nowUX Researcher · Amazon Web Services
- studiedCognitive Science, UC Berkeley · HCI, Georgia Tech
- writingfield notes →
- elsewherelinkedin ↗
Publications & patents
peer-reviewed & filedTag lines & testimonials
on the record, allegedlyHere are some things people have said about me, or things I have said about me. Also, just some things I've said.
“0 queries, all results.”
“Extremely interesting.”
“People out here doing the least, but you, you're out here doing the maximum.”
“God forbid we have personalities.”
“I have no clue, but she sounds hilarious.”
“HCI is like Denny's. You end up here.”
“If my life was a movie, what review would you write?” — “The book was better.”
The newsletter
A short note when something new takes root — a finished writeup, a passing thought worth keeping. Sporadic, never noisy, easy to leave.
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