Kidwa Arif

A mobile-first interactive game for understanding Adelaide’s coast, hills, suburbs, stations, interchanges and transport corridors. Explore the city through visual lessons or chase a high score in an endless three-life challenge.

Map play / guided discovery / endless challenge

A desktop app for Mac and Windows: paper sticky notes that remember which virtual desktop they live on, corkboards you can pin them to (with detective-board string), handwriting pens, doodles and paper that ages if you ignore it. Free to download.

Mac + Windows / corkboards / Rust + Svelte

A browser based process simulation product for modeling workflows, role capacity, queues, bottlenecks, utilization, and throughput. It helps teams compare operational scenarios before changing real processes, making process design easier to test and reason about.

Queues / capacity / bottlenecks / utilization

A data-led editorial feature about companies founded before 1700: where they are, what they do, how the biggest compare, and why age protects reputation but never guarantees survival.

1,023 companies / 14 exhibits / 1,448 years

A data case study comparing Dhaka neighborhoods through mapped amenities, seven day air quality, public space access, and evening peak mobility. The project also lets users adjust weightings and generate their own rankings, making it feel closer to a small data product than a static article.

10 areas / AQI / mobility / amenities

A product essay exploring how push notifications become the new spam, supported by a small poll across multiple social platforms. It argues for cleaner notification systems, better timing, stronger segmentation, and more restraint in how products fight for attention.

Poll / fatigue / product judgment

A Python data project built from scraped apartment listing data to study Dhaka's housing market. It looks at popular areas, apartment sizes, price per square foot, rent patterns, and broader neighborhood level signals.

Listings / locations / prices / trends

A finance analysis applying Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula to the Dhaka Stock Exchange. It ranks companies through earnings yield and return on capital, then layers practical judgment around dividend quality and long term investing signals.

Earnings yield / return on capital / ranking

A collection of research and commentary pieces on Bangladesh's economy and development, touching topics such as frugal innovation, the garment sector, stimulus, nutrition, informal systems, and urbanization.

Economy / policy / industry / development