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.
Hello!
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, chai and eggs 🍳
/ PERSONAL MISSION 🚀
How might we make technology more human and delightful, to solve for people’s unmet needs?
/ INSPIRATIONS
R.K. Laxman | Jane Fulton Suri | Dieter Rams & the people around me! 🤩
/ BOOK SHARE
Naoto Fukasawa, the book. 📕
It was my introduction to seeing Design as a practice and philosophy, a way of being.
/ PUBLICATIONS
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, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24–29, 2021, Proceedings, Part II
/ SPECIAL MENTIONS
