Anand Agarawala
Interface designer, software developer, inventor.
Boundless
CREATIVITY
I believe we are in the cave-painting era of computer interfaces. They aren’t as deep or emotionally engaging as they could be. I’d like to change all that.
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what are we to think of an empty one?” Albert Einstein said it, but Anand Agarawala would certainly agree with the implication. Mr. Agarawala’s U of T computer science master’s thesis grew to become BumpTop – a company built on a desktop environment tool that allows users to organize according to a personal or situational taxonomy rather than contending with the built-in user interface of a given device.
Beloved by users, BumpTop was acquired by Google in 2010. Mr. Agarawala accompanied his invention to Google where he works on user interface innovations for its products such as Android. Anand Agarawala is expressing his vision of the future of computing with a global audience.
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