As a designer, the work responsibilities ranged from New Product Development for a Steam product range and then also revamping the after-installation usage around it. Also, working on cross-functional projects ( with sales, marketing team) that involved improvising on the customer experience. Other projects included redesigning the enclosures for instrumentation systems and also, designing GUIs for internal customers as well as external to allow them to understand our products and their relevance to that particular industry better. Plus, designing websites for online learning solutions as the company also wanted to have a proactive equation with academia.

And on my own, I did take up ID Card revamp as well as revamping the R&D culture, right from the paint shades of the pillars to the few furniture pieces to perk up the space and yes, redesigning the entire ID arena and its arrangement, single-handedly. All as a first year fresher into the industry that I had no clue about! But only knew myself as a designer, inside out.

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After the much rigorous process of filtering the applications for the above initiative, I was shortlisted to be a part of the above community and attend their New Delhi chapter. It is a community of young hearts that is driven to serve better to society or their purpose in life in whatever way possible. Got a chance to interact with P. Chidambaram, Arvind Subramanian (the then Chief Economic Advisor to our PM), many other dignitaries from News & media, and many much more working in social sector.

As a designer, one needs to have a heightened sense of empathy. To push myself further, outside of the comfort of being in just community of designers, I reached to other passionate beings in this Mumbai chapter of Young India Challenge, who were passionate about other directions in their life (not necessarily design).
It was an eye opening experience as I was trying to understand how non-designers think of solutions (during few hackathons and on-the-spot challenges organised in the event) and how as a trained designer I can make a subtle difference.
Adding icing to this cake, was an opportunity given to me as I was chosen to be the Young Story speaker to motivate all around and inspire them with my side of life and how I fought for design to be my field, not engineering.

Worked as Research Assistant, for a PhD project at Cornell University in NY, USA. Coordinated and managed their Indian chapter at NID, Ahmedabad.

Living my dream to contribute at a self-made Indian company, that started in 1970s and has had a pioneering contribution to the Indian luggage industry.It surely is leading luggage brand in India as well as in Asia.V.I.P. Luggage is a house-hold name and is synonymous to travel, tourism and yes, luggage. With known brands like Skybags etc. under its umbrella and having acquired Carlton brand as well, it sure is a promising company with a rich heritage and loyal customers. And I'm here to make a difference, as a design intern, bringing back the name into the younger customer category, riding strong on the booming wave of TRAVEL industry and its welcoming, rejuvenating experiences.

The project included entire SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS, PRODUCT (LUGGAGE) SOLUTION alongwith a UI/UX based add-on.

Being in Bangalore and getting to work on a project that involved around the booming Service economy (regarding online food services) in India and elsewhere was a great opportunity. Also, since the project involved working from the level of research and analysis till the end usage, product ecosystem and product thinking and designing, keeping in mind the views of key players in the market as well, it gave me design understanding at the real level, which was one of the most important learning. The end proposal was entirely relevant and came closer to what these days is the new word in professional circuit: the N-commerce (combining the positives of real retail and online presence, to give a path-breaking insight and innovation into food industry.)

{Physical (Entirely new service, with its own USP, complete with the details for each stakeholder, retail setup, layout, logistics, financials etc. + Virtual touchpoint (UI/UX)}

Working on a concept conceived in the Mozilla Firefox workshop at UNBOX 2014, it was a challenge to convert the idea into real time product. It was exciting to be involved from the scratch and in building up the whole platform for this UX/UI related project, revolving around the concern of making online discussion platform effortless and effective for our professionals.
Developed an app called ConQ. On the design front, there were two of us and on the development three. So it was a team effort!

It was Industrial Design related project that I worked on. A medical product that would help the patients, essentially the elderly patients who suffer sleep amnea. From brief from the client to fitting into the manufatcuring standards to designing the whole device that is user centric was a very intensive process and a great learning too!

As a design student, I was inquisitive about the leather industries of my city, Kanpur. Hence, I utilized my summer holidays to discover more about the industries of my city, especially leather and document their processes. And ofcourse, learn from professionals there.

Specialising in Product design, I have worked on varied projects ranging from hard-core product design, to Systemic level service designs, UI/UX related, UX heavy assignments and much more. First in the batch to be the Young Graduate, I am looking for full time job opportunities at the moment.

91.2 % aggregate score.

96 % aggregate score (Highest ever in school's academic history and third highest at city-district level)