Layomi Akinrinade

I’m an interaction designer, researcher, and artist. I design digital and spatial systems that keep the state of work legible: where things are, what’s in progress, and who (or what) is handling it.

Most recently, for my thesis in the University of Washington’s MHCI+D program, I co-designed the Networked Expandable Terminal, an adaptive workspace for microgravity presented at SpaceCHI 2026 (NASA Ames Research Center).

Before that, I was a software engineer at Microsoft, working on API design for developers, and at Google, on AI fairness for Clips, an ambient camera that decided for itself when to capture. That work still shapes how I approach design: I start from what a system needs to know, and what people shouldn’t have to tell it.