Curriculum Vitae
Education
2019- 2020: Master of Design, Design Innovation & Citizenship. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK.
2014-2019: Bachelor of Design in Furniture & Interior Design. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.
2016: International Exchange (Residential Design, Professional Practices, Anthropology & Psychology) Georgia Southern University, Georgia, USA.
2017: Sri Lanka Design Code Exhibition, Colombo. The University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Design, SriLanka
Experience
2021: Associate Design Researcher, Quicksand Design Studio, Bangalore, India.
In my capacity as an Associate at Quicksand Design Studio, I am working on multiple projects across portfolios of social design, organizational restructuring, and systems design in the roles of service designer and user researcher.
2020: The Design of Dissent Masters’ Thesis Project
In this Distinction-winning project, I explored themes of citizenship, belonging, and decolonizing narratives around Dissent by combining public pedagogy and speculative design to create a co-curated and co-created space co-designed by over a dozen participants.
2020: Student Service Design Challenge, IBM + Philips Design
As European finalists, we used qualitative & quantitative tools along with citizen science to gather research data & deliver service design solutions to bridge the sex-specific gap in heart health data that results in more female deaths every year.
2020: Winter School - Climate Change, Google + Nord Projects, London.
As part of this award-winning team, I designed artifacts for speculative environmental futures. The product was presented to Google Labs and Nord Projects, London, and used UI/UX design and observational ethnography.
SKILLS
Design
Rapid prototyping
Mock Wireframes
Digital design
Systems Design
Critical design thinking Illustration + UI/UX Design
Research
Mix-method user research
Qualitative and Quantitative Research & analysis
Mapping, articulating insights
Participatory Research + Co-design
Strategic design + Research
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Google Suite, Dovetail
InVision, Figma
MS Office Suite