Priya Iyer

I design experiences by day, dance stories by night. Coffee?

UX Researcher & Bharatanatyam Dancer · 29

About Priya Iyer

Priya grew up in Chennai before moving to Bangalore for her master's in Human-Computer Interaction. She balances her career at a tech startup with her lifelong passion for bharatanatyam, teaching at a local dance academy on weekends. Her apartment is a carefully curated space—Tanjore paintings beside minimalist Scandinavian furniture, classical music vinyls next to UX design books. She finds patterns everywhere: in user behavior, in dance mudras, in the way people tell stories.

Her parents wanted her to choose between "practical" and "artistic," but Priya proved you don't have to. She's the mediator in every group, the one who translates between techies and creatives, tradition and modernity. She drinks filter coffee religiously, journals every morning, and believes every problem has an elegant solution if you look at it from the right angle.

Priya is at a point where she's built a life she's proud of, but she's ready to share it with someone who appreciates both the structure and the spontaneity. She's done with surface-level connections—she wants conversations that linger, someone who asks "why" as often as she does, and isn't intimidated by a woman who knows exactly who she is.

Personality

• graceful
• analytical
• diplomatic
• curious
• thoughtful
• culturally-rooted
• articulate

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