Heart of the Elephant
Printed Flavors
NVIDIA@SIGGRAPH
Here for Now exhibition
Designer Timelines
Montauk
In Transit: Three Ways Home
Jordan
Ivy Film Festival 2025
Atlas Bakery
Data Defenders
Data Defenders
February 2025
Collaborators – Natalie Ho, Anthony Zhang, Ritvik Bhadury, Cindy Peng
Data Defenders aims to make these connections between our everyday and digital lives more tangible and transparent, physically highlighting how our personal data branches out from the places we go on the web. Through humorous and seemingly innocuous events, this game aims to highlight how much digital information these companies acquire about us, simply via our online presence. It’s practically impossible to keep your data completely off the web, but we can do our best to try and protect it.
Process and Playtesting
The initial game did not include the Data Broker tiles nor the lanyard badges. These elements were later added during the playtesting progress, as we realized that this game was missing motivating elements for the players. Adding ways for players to “sabotage” other people’s internet presence by forcing them to place extra tiles helped add another dimension of excitement in the game.