A designer at heart, a visionary at soul
While I enjoy solving problems at hand, I often find myself contemplating revolutionary solutions that the world needs. Could be an ENFJ thing. :)
Architectural Odyssey: Designing from Ships to Ceilings
My innate inclination to creativity led me to pursue architecture in my undergrad and post that I’ve had my hands on the design of a ship, museum, bungalow, many corporate offices, ceiling installations, and even kitchen cabinets, over 3 years of practising as an architect at multiple design startups in India and Tokyo.
Spaces to Screens: Voyage into Product Design
While I was practising as an architect, I had a deep-seated desire to design for a greater positive social impact, which led me to the intersection of design, technology and people, and I flew to the United States to pursue MS in HCI at Indiana University Bloomington. At grad school, I got the opportunity to do a bunch of sponsored Product Design projects with Salesforce and Best Buy, and in the summer of 2022, I started woking at the New York Times as a Product Designer.
A year designing for the New York Times
At the New York Times, I designed a 0-1 feature that reinforces Trust amongst the readers, redesigned a section of the New York Times' homepage that receives nearly 5 million views per day, and created localized design system for the Articles team — the force that brings you all the New York Times articles.
Currently designing AI products for Con-Tech
I’m currently working as a Senior Associate Product Designer at a construction technology company called ISN, in Dallas, Texas. I’m the lead designer for their mobile app where I recently designed an AI feature that solves the everyday problems of construction workers. I love the autonomy my role brings. About 80% of my weekly collaboration is with product managers, data scientists and developers, which helps me stay close to business needs and technical feasibility. Another opportunity that my role offers, which I thoroughly enjoy, is to ‘streamline collaboration’ — ISN partners with two external companies for its products, which implies dealing with numerous developers, business analysts, and data scientists — this encourages me to often take leading initiatives for ensuring efficient collaboration and smooth cadence.
My strongest design skills:
- Mapping and solving complex user and business problems
- Exploring new divergent ideas, converging and building iteratively on them for the strongest user experience
- Creating engaging and visually appealing cross-platform interfaces through rapid prototyping
- Presenting designs cross-functionally with a clear articulation of design rationale.
- Collaborating efficiently with non-design stakeholders.
Interests outside work
Nutrition, plant-based recipes, pilates, yoga, meditation, architecture, interior design, fashion, documenting cities, socio-cultural history, wordsmithing.
Budding passions
I thoroughly enjoy attending design and tech events and wish to eventually start organizing them to reinforce community building and help people forge meaningful relationships.