Devika Santosh

Experience Designer & Creative Technologist

Design Projects

Experience Design

Titanic the Musical Pre-Show Experience

Experience designer and narrative designer for a pre-show lobby experience for Titanic the Musical, as a client project for CMU's School of Drama.

Experience Designer Narrative Designer UX User Journeys User Personas Experiential Graphic Design 3D Printing
Experience Design

Little Owl Construction Co.

UI/UX designer for a physical interactive platform that utilizes collaborative storytelling to teach middle-schoolers that college is a pathway to the entertainment technology industry, by letting them create their own animatronic show.

Experience Designer UI Designer Concept Artist UX User Journeys Concept Art Prototyping Figma Rhino Keyshot Blender
Experience Design

Boofinder

Designing a physical device and space for an alternate-control game about interacting with ghosts and setting them up on dates.

Concept Artist Concept Design Prop Design Set Design SketchUp Blender
Experience Design

The Curse - Escape Room

A narrative-driven escape room using an Egyptian tomb set with sensors embedded on the floors and walls, and DMX lighting set up in the space. We were tasked with utilising the kiosk and the tomb to create an immersive escape room experience.

Programmer Experience Designer Unity Show Control Systems DMX Lighting
Experience Design

The Manor - A Dark Ride

A Ghostbusters-inspired CAVE VR comedy-horror dark ride.

You're a rookie ghostbuster, tasked with finding five glowing orbs hidden throughout a haunted manor and releasing ghosts trapped in each zone by solving a cooperative puzzle.

Experience Designer Environment Designer Unity Show Control Systems Playtesting
Transformational Design

When the Voices Fade

Transformational design pitch for an exhibit highlighting human complicity created as part of CMU's Entertainment Technology Fundamentals class.

Experience Designer Transformational Design Narrative Design
Experience Design

Butterfly Garden

Making a group of butterflies with programmed diversity in movement, scale, and lag follow a flower a guest holds.

Interactive Media Designer Programmer TouchDesigner MediaPipe
Experience Design

Thank You For...

An interactive gratitude wall exhibit for the Kindness Gallery at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, designed to hit SEL goals, where children can better recognize other people’s actions and develop gratitude.

Concept Artist Character Artist Fabricator Graphic Designer Researcher Data Collector Children's Character Art Prototyping Fabrication Research Data Collection
Experience Design

Mid-Way to the Midway

External-facing producer handling client relations, team dynamics, budgeting, and ordering equipment for a team developing a minimum viable product for the Heinz History Center’s 2027 exhibit on Western Pennsylvania's amusement park heritage.

Producer Narrative Designer Production Fabrication Prototyping Playtesting
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Lego Projection Mapping

Experiments with storytelling and creating custom art with your Lego sets!

Interactive Media Designer Design Projection Mapping Location-Based Entertainment Lego TouchDesigner HeavyM
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UI Design

UI Design projects created during my undergrad.

UI Design Figma Prototyping
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Marketing and Social Media Design

Online and offline marketing content designed for various clubs during my undergrad, where I was the Design Lead and Content & Media Lead.

Marketing Social Media Figma
Archeological Ruins Generator Tool

Arduino Animation with Pulse Sensor Input

8x8 LED grid animation created with Arduino that changes pace based on pulse sensor data.

Arduino
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Artwork

2D Art, Storyboarding, and Animation.

Procreate