Indiana University Bloomington
We study how design is learned, practiced, and made responsible.
UXP² is a collaborative research lab working across human–computer interaction, design education, ethics, law, and policy.
Recent signals
Work with impact.
A living snapshot of publications, awards, tools, and public scholarship—connected to the people and projects that made them possible.
CNIL–Inria Privacy Award
Recognizing research that connects EU consent regulation with the realities of user studies.
Tracing dark patterns through time
A new foundation for temporal analysis, examined through Amazon’s “Iliad Flow.”
A decade of dark-pattern discourse
Tracing how dark patterns were discussed and evolved on Twitter from 2010–2021.
The lab
People make the work.
Our researchers bring together design, law, education, cognition, artificial intelligence, and qualitative inquiry.
Lab Director
Colin M. Gray, PhD
Associate Professor of Informatics and HCI/d Program Director. Colin’s research examines design pedagogy and practice, particularly ethics, design knowledge, and learning experience.
Doctoral Student
Ritika Gairola
Researching the intersection of HCI, law, ethics, and policy, including the temporal analysis of dark patterns.
Doctoral Candidate
Nayah Boucaud
Exploring how AI and computational tools can augment human intelligence, learning, productivity, and creativity.
Doctoral Student
Sarah Braunstein
Working at the intersection of technology and education, with interests in learner experience and user experience design.
Doctoral Student
Jacqueline Dong
Bringing a communications-design lens to accessibility, qualitative research, dark patterns, and content moderation.
Affiliated Researcher
Thomas Carlock
A UX Design graduate researcher whose work has contributed to the NSF-funded Everyday Ethics project.
Affiliated Researcher
Ambika R. Menon
Researching technology-manipulation discourse in Indian and Chinese media and contributing to ethics-focused co-design.
Affiliated Researcher
Aayushi Bharadwaj
Bringing service design, UX research, and product design to research on technology manipulation and everyday ethics.
Selected work
Questions we are pursuing.
Projects connect researchers, collaborators, publications, and public-facing resources. These cards are designed to make those relationships visible.
How do manipulative designs unfold over time?
Building theories, examples, and methods that help researchers, practitioners, and regulators identify and act on deceptive design.
What helps designers deliberate—and act—ethically?
Developing ethics-focused methods and action plans that resonate with the complexity of everyday technology practice.
How can AI serve as an ally to human thought?
Investigating computational tools that augment learning and productivity while sustaining human creativity and agency.
How do designers build knowledge and competence?
Studying the communities, discourses, educational experiences, and reflective practices through which UX expertise develops.
Collaboration network
Built across boundaries.
The lab’s recent publications show a research network spanning disciplines, institutions, and countries. This section can grow into named collaborator profiles.
Design + law
Connecting empirical HCI research with privacy, consumer protection, regulation, and policy.
Recent work with Cristiana Santos and Nataliia BielovaResponsible computing
Creating shared language and methods for ethical deliberation in technology practice.
Recent work with Sai Shruthi Chivukula and lab alumniTransdisciplinary action
Bringing researchers and practitioners together to address harmful design at multiple scales.
Connections across HCI, education, policy, and industryWhere they go
A growing community.
UXP² alumni carry their experience into research, education, design, product, and engineering roles.
Bring a hard question. Let’s work on it together.
We welcome conversations with students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations working toward more responsible technology.
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