Ariel Churi
Associate Professor
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Churi is an Associate Professor and creative technologist with over a decade of experience designing transformative digital products at the intersection of design, technology, and human experience. He blends academic rigor from an MFA in Interactive Telecommunications with hands-on product leadership for clients like Amazon, Sotheby’s, MoMA, Mattel and Hasbro, shipping everything from AR/VR experiments to large-scale web and mobile platforms. As a founder at Sparkle Labs he prototyped hardware and educational kits, managed cross-disciplinary teams, and translated playful physical interfaces into manufacturable products. At agencies and enterprise teams he has led UX and product design from 0-to-1, built modular design systems, and navigated complex stakeholder environments including C-level presenters. He teaches creative computing, physical computing, and design research at Parsons while continuing to consult and prototype industry-facing interactive experiences. Colleagues describe him as a connector between craft-driven visual design and pragmatic engineering who thrives on rapid prototyping and unexpected creative collisions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Printmaking, BA Printmaking at University of the ArtsMFA Interactive Telecommunications Program, MFA Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University
Github Skills (5)
table-of-contents5
markdown4
pdf4
console2
evernote1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arielchuri/autozinefier
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Output a zine from markdown to html and pdf.
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 6 months
pdftable-of-contentsmarkdown-to-htmlto-markdownmarkdown
sparklelabs/sparklesite
Nov 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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