Shrestha Kedia

Industrial Designer, Design Researcher

Mumbai, India

Work Experience

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd

Sr. Industrial Designer

Research and Design strategy in alignment with business objective and consumer needs to create overall innovation map and design direction for various brands of GCPL based out of India, Africa and Indonesia. Creating knowledge systems for stake holders across the world, identify scope of innovation for the company, design strategy and briefs based on need-gap understanding.
.Designing new products in collaboration with R&D, engineering and marketing teams based on inputs from consumer research and technology research and formulation requirement of the specific product category.
June 2015 - Present India

Future Group

Furniture Designer

Responsible for design and development of new product ranges in Furniture segment from initial design brief, user and market research, concept development, sampling and production in wood, panel and engineered knockdown furniture.
• Project management from coordinating with multiple vendors based out of China, Malaysia and India for sampling and on field prototyping of new product designs.
February 2014 - May 2015 India

Godrej And Boyce

Industrial Designer (Manager)

Strategic design and development of user centric furniture through extensive consumer research and structured design methodology (ID methods).

• Major projects included designing extension of steel modular furniture system ‘Kreation’ to be manufactured by Godrej steel facility, flexible seating system supporting individuals to collaborate in coworking ‘Hubble’, tensigrity principle based dining table, Wall mounted unit for holding telephone, portable and alternative living solution for Urban Nomads
May 2012 - January 2014 India

Moksh Couture Jewellery

Designer

Designer for high end precious couture jewellery sector for urban Indian Customers
2008 - 2009 Mumbai, India

Education

National Institute Of Design

Post-Grad in Industrial Design

3 yrs of post-grad studies with specialization in Furniture Design.
Ahmedabad, India

National Institute Of Fashion Technology

Bachelors of Design in Accessory design

Accessory design with specialisation in Precious products
Gandhi Nagar, India

Languages

English (Fluent),
Hindi (Native),
Bengali (Conversational),
Gujarati (Conversational),

Awards

Core77

core77 design awards

2013

Elle Decor

Park Elle Decor Student showcase

2013

Skills

3dsmax, Autocad, Concept Development, CorelDraw, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Illustrator, Indesign, Keyshot, Market Research, Photoshop, Prototyping And Detailing, Rhino, Sketching, User Research ,