Hello!
My name is Kaia Andersen and I am from upstate New York. I grew up hiking in the Adirondacks, with my love for nature and design, I am currently finishing my fourth year at Roger Williams University as an architecture major, minoring in sustainability. During my third year, while studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain, I developed a design for a sustainable social hub. I would love to take the principles I learned abroad and implement them into my future architectural career to positively add to the built environment.
AI’s Inability to Evoke Emotion
I think AI can be a very helpful tool for things like studying and aiding people but still monitored. An assignment that AI would struggle with would be if it was required to do an art assignment with the prompt “Create something that shows your personality in a...
Class Workshop
Our Consciousness
As we learned in class, there are more connections in the brain than there are stars in the universe. This is a crazy idea to try and wrap your head around; there are so many little things happening inside our brains that we can't imagine. Our consciousness is made up...
Diving Into Image Composition
Images are composed of pixels, tiny squares filled with individual colors that come together to form an image. The more pixels in an image, the smoother the colors appear, resulting in a more realistic depiction. Conversely, fewer and larger pixels lead to a...
Diving Deeper into Learning Objective #4
2/21 Digital representation has a fixed number of possibilities. This means that if a symbol is not exactly correct, you can go through the options and still be able to figure out what it is supposed to represent. You would not be able to do this with an analog system...
Navigating Truth in the Age of Technology
Sora, a new generative AI model, was just announced by OpenAI. This groundbreaking technology can create videos based on any prompt, no matter how simple or complex, tailored to the curator's specifications. With such complexity, the primary concern is ensuring the...
London To New York In Minutes!
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in 1832, along with his invention of Morse code. This digital invention used the symbols of 0s and 1s of Morse code to communicate. This allowed for long-distance communication as it was a point-to-point messaging system. The...
3 Compelling Reasons: Why We Ditched Analog For Digital!
1. Less NoiseAnalog signals are subject to noise and disruption, whereas digital signals are of higher quality and are robust to noise. I for one am happy to not hear the static noise after accidentally switching to a channel not in use! With digital, I don't have to...
Could software be installed in our heads?!
Elon Musk is pioneering the ambitious endeavor of implanting software directly into people's brains, with the noble aim of potentially restoring sight for those with visual impairments. This groundbreaking technology involves incorporating a microscopic camera that...
Does AI have emotions…
This week, I ventured into the realm of AI through Chat GPT, discovering its capabilities to interpret commands akin to a digital wizard's lair. Initially unfamiliar with AI, I found it unexpectedly intriguing to instruct a computer program to convey various emotions,...
Featured Work
Trinity Beauty Co.
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Mirage Candle Co.
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What I Do Best
UI/UX Design
Web Design
Brand Identity
Work Experience
January 2020 – Present
Senior Product Designer
Innovative Solutions Co.
June 2017 – December 2019
Product Design Lead
Tech Innovators Inc.
User-Centric Design: Championing a user-centric design approach by conducting user research