I’m Arjun.
A curious human.
I’m a UX Researcher with 3+ years of industry experience, and a designer who keeps asking why. I studied at IDC, IIT Bombay and SCAD. Outside research, I’m usually drawing, teaching, or following a question a little further than I planned.
01 / WHERE MY STORY STARTS
I was born in
Idukki, Kerala.
My love of nature is rooted here, in a landscape of forested hills in Kerala’s Western Ghats. It’s a connection I carry with me.
A place I’m part of.
FORESTED HILLS · WESTERN GHATSEven a peppercorn can lead somewhere.
I like knowing that the spice-growing hills I come from connect to a much bigger story. Through Kerala’s ports, spices travelled across seas—carrying trade, ideas and encounters between people.
It’s the kind of connection that keeps me curious: how something close to home can be part of a world-sized story.
Story notes & photograph
Place and spice history
Idukki’s spice-growing highlands and the ports of the wider Malabar coast are distinct parts of this connection.
Idukki District Administration · Spice history ↗Muziris Heritage Project · The spice route ↗UNESCO · Trade and cultural exchange ↗Landscape photography
Hills of Idukki, viewed south from Pallivasal. Photograph by Rainer Halama, 2025. Resized for the web and cropped by the responsive layout.
Original photograph · Wikimedia Commons ↗Photograph licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗02 / A LITTLE MORE OF ME
A few things
in my orbit.
Strategy. Imagination. A lot of thinking.
And plenty still to explore.
- Chess
- INTJ
- Gym
- Nature
- Optimistic
- Cooking
- Teaching
- Thinking a lot
- Writing sci-fi
- Math
- Sketching
There’s more to a person than a project page.
LET’S TALK