.⟡ ݁₊ ⊹ Irawo ‘Star’ Ajasin (they/them) is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, creative technologist, and educator from Atlanta and based in Brooklyn.
I have spent the last 5+ years of my career applying community-engaged research, UX design, civic innovation, and creative computing to cross-sector, cross-cultural contexts. My work orients around identifying and strategically designing critical interventions for digital equity, safety, and pro-social tech futures.
My practice is inspired by principles of critical design, data feminism, interactive storytelling, self-publishing, and speculative design!
Core Skills & Expertise:
• design research for civic and public impact
• digital product strategy and design
• lightweight web design
• publication and print design
• workshop and curriculum facilitation
Digital Equity Intern (current)
Sojourners for Justice Press
Publications Operations Intern (current)
NYU LowPwrLab
Research Assistant (2025 - 2026)
Oracle
Design Research Intern (Summer 2025)
NYU Decolonizing Design
Research Assistant (2024 - 2025)
Georgia Tech Design, Ethnographic, and Artistic Research Lab
Research Assistant (2022 - 2024)
UrbanHeatATL
Designer (2022 - 2024)
Expedia Group
UX Design Intern (2023)
Angels Among Us
Product Designer Consultant (2023)
Hack4Impact
Director of Social Impact (2022 - 2023)
Games for Justice
Instructional Designer (2021)
STEMulation Escape Room
Designer (2019 - 2020)
MS, Integrated Design and Media
Georgia Tech (2020-2024)
B.S. in Computational Media
Concentration in Human-Computer Interaction
School for Poetic Computation (2024)
Reading Past, Writing Futures