About

Welcome to Vaida’s personal website!

Personal

I’m currently working out what my identity is in the present moment and in the present world, and how I can engage with the things I like in ways that make me happy. So, here’s a list of things I like:

• Media - whether games, music, TV, or film, as long as it makes me feel something
• The outside world - this blog is an attempt to simplify my digital presence and separate myself from the feed, so I can spend more time outside meeting up with friends and doing things that make me feel alive
• Kindness and empathy baby!!

Work

I enjoy intentional work on projects that enable other people, whether helping them be creative or by providing a well-designed tool. I like to think about how people think and how to make working together easy, so that we can make great things together in better ways.

I’m interested in user experience design, product design, production & design especially of games, and storytelling in all domains.

🏙️ By day, I’m a product manager and design lead at RSpace, an open-source research data management platform. I’m on LinkedIn and reachable at vaida@researchspace.com.

🌃 By night, I’m a UI/UX designer on a few Strange Scaffold games. I’m currently working on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown. I’ve worked on Life Eater, which NME has listed as one of the best games of 2024 so far. Also Markiplier played it and seemed to like it.

I’ve also made a bunch of microgrames, they’re on itch.io.

Maybe I’ll compile a portfolio of the various talks/things/etc I’ve done throughout the years, at some point!

Reach me

• @vaida.me on Bluesky
• @tomyheartsliking on Discord
• vaidaplankyte@gmail.com
• prev @underskinnyhrt on Twitter (RIP)