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I am a Conversation + Product Designer & Visual Thinker. My practice includes designing technologies informed by user research with a focus on the future of digital technologies and human-machine interactions with a subject matter expertise in Conversational Interfaces (chatbots and voice-bots), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Wearables & Healthcare.

I have a keen interest in desgining emerging technologies with a critical lens and a systems thinking approach for ethical human-centred adoption in previously unexplored scenarios. I did my B.Des in Product Design from the NID India and an MDes in Digital Futures at OCADU.

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Hello!

childhood memory of me drawing

My earliest childhood memories are of me scribbling mountains with my grandmother. Now every time I doodle I am drawn back to those wonder-filled afternoons making me feel more like a five-year old now than I ever filling me with a child-like wonder. From working in a young healthcare startup to building a master's thesis on sociable voice user interfaces, it is this child-like wonder that has shaped me into a Design Mutant, curious to take up new challenges and wear multiple hats and support my team and clients.

I see my role as that of a problem solver, one who steps in to simplify available information, decode user-behaviour and brings method to madness. 

I enjoy being the occasional fly-on-the-wall observing people in their element and making talking bots. When I am not working you can find me reading, doodling, binge-watching, DIY-ing, organizing spaces or making paper-planes.

/ MY ESSENTIALS 🧺

A pen, a sketchbook, filter coffee and a watch

/ PERSONAL MISSION 🚀

How might we make technology more people friendly and delightful?

/ INSPIRATIONS 🤩

R.K. Laxman | Jane Fulton Suri | Dieter Rams & the people around me!

/ BOOK SHARE 📕 

Naoto Fukasawa, the book. It was my introduction to the philosophy of Design and using it's framework as part of lifestyle

/ PUBLICATIONS

Sketches in Voice User Interfaces: Relational Conversations with Virtual Personal Assistants in Domestic Spaces
Masters thesis, OCAD University. ISBN 978-1-77835-090-0 , 2021​
Patent: Ocular Screening
Co-inventor
Pub. no. WO/2018/100589, PCT/IN2017/050561 , 2016​
Visualizing Wellness: The Myant Skiin System Connected Life App
Co-author, Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Supporting Everyday Life Activities 7th International Conference, ITAP 2021, 
Textile Game Controllers: Exploring Affordances of E-Textile Techniques as Applied to Alternative Game Controllers
Co-author, ACM Digital Library · Feb 1, 2021 | TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Designing for Comprehensive Healthcare: A ground zero study and system
synthesis from India
Co-author, RSD7, The 7th Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium, 2018
Access to Electricity-A Case Study for a Decentralized People-Centric Energy
model for India
Co-author, RSD7, The 7th Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium, 2018
InterCARE: A Cloud Computing Patient Care System
Co-author, In proceedings; IndiaHCI Conference 2014 (ACM Digital Library)​

/ SPECIAL MENTIONS

Empowering  Caregivers in Immunization Innovation Challenge
OpenIDEO + Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Healthy Bones Healthy Aging Challenge
Community Fellow, Challenge Team | OpenIDEO + UCB, AARP Innovation, VA Innovation Center, National Osteoporosis Foundation, & TMC Innovation
iSHOW India, ASME Grand prize 2017 ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 
Winning Start-up | Representing Brun Health Pvt. Ltd.
 
Singularity University Global Impact Challenge (GIC) India 2018
Winning Start-up | Representing Brun Health Pvt. Ltd.
4 Collaborative Design Tips from OpenIDEO’s Community Fellows
Reflections as a Community Fellow, IDEO
How to Build a Vibrant Global Community, Virtually
Tips & Tricks on working virtually | IDEO

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