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January 2009-June 2009 Interests
Diploma project student at Axiom Education Design Research, Interaction design, Systems Design, Participatory
Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India Design & Ethnographic Studies.
www.axiomeducation.in Children’s Education & Edutainment
Photography
November 2005-May2007
Travelling
Worked as a Software Engineer in Infosys Music, Dance, Dramatics and hand work
Technologies Limited, Chennai, India Doodling and Sketching
www.infosys.com

Design Skills
Education Concept Generation
June 2007-June 2009 Storyboarding and Animation
User Research Methodologies (Contextual Enquiry, Interviews)
Post Graduate Diploma in Software and User
Usability Testing
Interface Design from National Institute of
Prototyping (High and Low Fidelity)
Design, Ahmedabad, India
User Centric Design methodologies
www.nid.edu
Information visualisation & Graphics
June 2001-May 2005
Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and Technical skills
Control from SRM Engineering College, Anna
-Software: Adobe Design Suite, Microsoft Office Suite
University, Chennai, India
-Plaforms: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Mac OS X,
www.annauniv.edu
-Languages & Programming: Basics of HTML, CSS, JSP,
action script 2.0 and .Net(OOPS concepts)

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Professional work Academic work Explorations

Axiom Education Pvt. Ltd. National Institute of Design -Life is short, an animated movie

-Interaction Design for web shopping
experience
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
-Redesigning Power Transportation
Management Systems for Meridian IQ
-Redesigning the Intranet site for British
Petroleum
-Educational Graphics for teaching History -Tears of trash, a film to create awareness
about waste disposal
-Craft as a tool for Primary Education
-Shapes, Clay Animation
-Personal music creation kiosk for music
lovers
-Computer game based physical interactive
play areas
-Educational device for rural women

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Interaction Design for web shopping experience
design Project Duration: 5 months (January 2009 - June 2009)
Diploma Project

ms design The project is to develop a universal online

digital platform that can be used to distribute
digital as well as physical goods and can be
design research used as a community market place for sharing
knowledge. The users are provided with
information design appropriate products for their specific needs.

ethnographic studies It was mainly to design the interactions and

create experience in these product transactions
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Categorisation of users, sample personas created,
and scenarios for the personas
and create knowledge sharing and collaboration
between users through these transactions.

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The process was the study of the existing

design research setup and the strategies, testing these

strategies against the competitors, involving

information design the user and their feedback and finding new
areas of improvement.

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Interaction Design for web shopping experience
design Project Duration: 5 months (January 2009 - June 2009)
Diploma Project

ms design This project involved multiple sets of users, like

parents, children and educators. Their needs,
behaviours, expectations were studied and
design research personas, scenarios, story boards and task flows
were created to aid the process.
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Sitemap of the online market place
The deliverables were the information
architecture, in terms product classification
Wireframes of the online market place and the features required, the wireframes of
design systems design the interface and the interactions along with
the themes. These were shown in the form of

teraction design product design paper prototype and video prototype.

design research Usabiliy Analysis was done with the help of

the prototype. Also some visual styles were

information design suggested.

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Infosys Technologies Ltd
design (November 2005 - May 2007)

ms design Redesigning the application Power

Transportation Management Systems
design research This was for the US based client Meridian
IQ (now renamed as YRC Logistics) As a
information design memberof the team I was involved in coding
JSPs for the front of the application.
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design systems design Redesigning the Intranet site for the
UK based client British Petroleum
teraction design product design As a member of the team I was involved in
creating CSS templates for the interface of the
design research Intranet site. This was a part of the maintenace
for the Intranet site.
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Screenshots from British Petroleum Intranet

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Educational Graphics for teaching History
design Project Duration: 6 weeks (October 2008)

ms design The purpose of the project was to improve the

learning experience of history through graphically
rich visual aids. The design process of ideation,
design research user study, exploration, user testing, alternate
solutions and improvising was followed.
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A part of the contents of the NCERT History
textbook of class six, was enhanced with the help
of graphical elements. The approach (considering
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Schematic Diagram representing
the constraints and the different no change of content) was maintained the same
inputs
with a different interaction to enhance the content

teraction design product design and hence increase recollection and recall.

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NCERT sixth standard history textbook

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Educational Graphics for teaching History
design Project Duration: 6 weeks (October 2008)

ms design The main features included students’ interaction

(students can write their thoughts)with the
product, cooperative learning (group learning/
design research team work) and retaining existing pedagogy
(designed for exisitng classrooms).
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The deliverable was an interactive graphical flip
chart which depicts the Indian history as a story
told by two characters, an archaeologist and a
design systems design
Frames of the interactive graphical flip chart historian about their experience.
A part of the

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whole interactive
graphical flip chart

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Diagram showing the usage
of the product inside the
classrooms

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Craft as a tool for Primary Education
design INTERACTIVE MOVIE (team of 3)
Project Duration: 1 week (November 2007)

ms design The aim of the project was to understand the

craftsmen, essentially the Potters of Kutch in
Gujarat, India and showcase it through any
design research medium.

information design The important aspect was to use the various

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tools of user study to know about various
aspects of the craftsmen, his family and
occupation. Later the collected data was
design systems design analysed to come up with the medium and
mode of representation.
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The lives of the craftsmen and their family was

design research portrayed taking the life of three craftsmen

and their philosophy of life and work through

information design an interactive movie.

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Interactive movie ‘Potters of Kutch‘. The main frame shows the path of the journey and on click of
the icon like images, a clip about that potter of that place plays.
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Craft as a tool for Primary Education
design SCENARIO MAPPING
Project Duration: 6 weeks (March 2008)

ms design The children learn subjects through

the techniques of the craft with the
The focus of the project was to sensitise young
children of the age group 6 to 8 years old to
assistance of teachers Indian heritage crafts and the craftsmen and
design research also create learning through these crafts (a
different and distinctive approach to learning).
information design The craftsmen provide the basic

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knowledge and the raw material, the The design process of identifying the area
teachers assist the children in learning
through craft, devising those
where design intervention was required
mechanisms and sharing them, the through user study, idea generation, systems
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approach, various other explorations and
alternative solutions and iterations through

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The people in the network
are the craftsmen, the
children and the teachers
user testing was followed.

design research The school

The learning from the previous project (making
of the interactive movie) was used in this

information design management helps

to form the network
project. A scenario was built taking a particular
school and the nearby craftsman.

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Craft as a tool for Primary Education
design BOOK & GAME
Board Game- Multi Player Project Duration: 6 weeks (March 2008)
game at the end of the
story book

ms design The scenario had two design interventions, one was

sensitising the children and the other was imparting
the knowledge about the crafts for the teachers
design research which were the prerequisite for the next step
‘Learning by Doing‘ in classrooms.
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An activity based story book, followed by a simple
multi-player board game for the students, were the
final deliverable of the project.
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Pages from the activity based
story book ‘Adventures of
Nandhu’

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Craft as a tool for Primary Education
design WEBSITE & ACTIVITY
Project Duration: 2 weeks (July 2008)

ms design The web site ‘EDUCRA‘ (education through

craft) acts as a sharing portal between different
schools in the educra network. This was mainly
design research designed to impart knowledge to the teachers
about crafts and craftsmen.
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The design process of understanding users,
identifying needs, formulating solutions
and refining through testing was followed
design systems design incorporating the principles of visual design
Information Architecture and minimalist design.

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for the website
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Sharing methods of teaching and learning

design research through crafts, networking between different

schools and between the students and the

information design teachers are the other features of the site.

Activities and learning materials for learning

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different grades are available in the site.
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Personal music creation kiosk for music lovers
design Simulation of the physical
(team of 2)
model of the music kiosk Project Duration: 2 weeks (August 2007)

ms design A digital entertainment device which was

designed in the form of a kiosk to be installed
in college recreational places and music stores.
design research
The idea was to make music creation more
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personalised and take it out of the existing

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computer domain (considering music created
using software) and creating a simple user
interface for the novice users. The kiosk allows
design systems design the user to create his own piece of music with
contextual guidance and the available presets.

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Personal music creation kiosk for music lovers
design (team of 2)
Project Duration: 2 weeks (August 2007)

ms design The deliverable involved the screen interface

simulated in flash and the a scaled down model of
the physical form with interactions.
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In the team of two members, I was involved in
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identifying their needs, understanding the existing
provisions for music creation and remixing, interface
and physical product design.
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Computer game based physical interactive play areas
design Project Duration: 1 week (September 2008)

ms design Conceptualisation and feasibility study of

designing computer game based physical
interactive play areas to create physical mobility
design research and learning through social interaction in a
physical space
information design
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Target audience were Indian children of the
age group 9 to 12 years old. The various types
of players, the games they play and the
design systems design reasons were analysed for the mentioned age
group and concepts were generated keeping

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Detailed flow diagram and a
concept sketch of the interactive
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Educational device for rural women
design Project Duration: 2 weeks (August 2008)

ms design A simple educational device for semi literate

rural Indian women to learn and in turn teach
their school going kids.
design researchPersona (semi-literate rural Indian woman)
Starting from idea generation, user study,
information design personas, conceptualisation, designing

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interactions, the physical form till a
promotional advertisement for the product
were done, thus getting a whole picture of
design systems design product development life cycle.

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Phtsical Interactions with the product
The inspirations for the form and the
interactions were taken from the metaphors

design research around the users life.

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Life is Short
design Watch Life is short :
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=11tdN_2Qolk

ms design The animation movie was done to show the

mortal nature of our lives, taking the example
of the life of an ant. The animation was done
design research in flash.

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Screen shots from the animation movie

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Tears of Trash
design Watch Tears of Trash :
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=iQssOcFrCzc

ms design A short film made to create an awareness

about keeping the surroundings clean and
emphasise the use of dust bins. The movie is
design research shot from the trash’s perspective of it’s life.
Techniques of filmography and stop motion
information design animation were used in the film.

ethnographic studies As a part of the two member group, I was

involved in making the story, deciding shot
design systems design angles, shooting and audio for the film.

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Shapes, Clay Animation
design Watch Shapes :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YuIV_DWH_I

ms design This was a short animation film made using

clay as the medium and the technique of stop
motion animation.
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This was made as an exercise to teach children
information design about the basics of shapes.

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