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design PORTFOLIO HARLEEN DHAWAN
product UX Research Graphics Interior-Architecture
Graphics/ visualization/ animation
- breaking standards - client-oriented - objectiveness - purely skill based
- quick individual iterations - quick feedback mechanism
Product
- iterations - exploration - user specificity - debatable
-scale - dependence on vendor, fabricator, equipment, resources - user market - objective - research-driven
Furniture
- scale - timelines - feedback - iterations - design process
Interaction
Architecture
Hi!
here’s my journey across various design disciplines, the blue points indicating what I found lacking in the previous discipline that led me to the next.
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Design For The User Whether it is a product, system or service, a designer designs ultimately for the end user. It includes the functional, experiential, experiential and sensorial aspects of the interaction between the user and the space or product.
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Design is not a mere solution to a problem, but a way of resolving it”. Where artists evoke emotions through instinctive work, a designer employs a methodical, data-driven process to ensure a specific response. It is hence, crucial to create designs that not just exists or functions, but engage and enrich - to synergize critical-thinking with cognitive psychology. Design by virtue is multi-disciplinary, and I strive to undertake projects of varied media through collaborative efforts.
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Index Product Design
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Graphics & UX design
Customized Mechanical Workbench
UX Research Project
Project Alchemy
Business Card design
Project Convertible Shesk (Shelf-desk)
Illustrations and other interests
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Interior-Architecture Space Planning,
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3D Visualization, Structural drawings, Electrical drawings, Technical Drawings
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Publishes and writing
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Instructables_Synergizing The Beauty of Mathematics and Art T-Works website blog Re-Thinking The Future
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PRODUCT DESIGNING
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THEM30 PROJECT WORKBENCH Mechanical Workbench with integrated features for multi-use case
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THETRILEG
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Motivation Better user experience
Testbed for different benchtop materials Testing longevity of surfaces, structural strength, functionalities, weight, while pushing the conventional design details through this prototype
Design and features customized for T-Works use cases, because designers Growing our community are themselves the by involving a less niche, explorative end-users
Resolving pain points in current design Transportation and packaging No defined power source No work-light No staging area for pre-assembly prep No storage
Precedent for joineries and junctions for future projects welding, customised sheet metal brackets, nut-bolt, rivnut-bolt, epoxy, brazing, T-slot joinery Smallest to largest fastener
project Product for donation - Makerspaces, workshops, factories to bring recognition of out capabilities and build community Open source drawings/ instructable to help other makers build it in nearby makerspaces/ fablabs
Identity feature Showcasing in-house design and prototyping capabilities
Unconventional design details Pushing the standards by customizing joineries and details
Reducing weight while adding features function driving the design Composite frame with smaller, thinner components Light-weight material with chunky components
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Primary research report compiled into a booklet/ repository as precedent case study Selected Works
CLIENT : T-Works Foundation SITE : Hitec, Hyderabad TYPOLOGY : Furniture Design August, 2021 (On-Going)
Learnings •
Being the project lead, most of the drawings, detailing, fabricating, BOM, rendering, case-studies, etc. was done by me, working prominently in a team of 2.
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Found upto 15 new vendors and specific fabricators in recommendable vendor repository for T-Works
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Research report for workbench standards compiled
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Precedent for documenting and showcasing a design concept and deriving its components
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Scope for writing a blog on Project Management - from ideation to execution
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Upto 80% fabrication done in-house, learning every joinery methods and options
Technical drawings prepared to fabricate all components
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Challenges Use Cases • Assembly • Material Handling • Manufacturing • Tool benches • Heavy Duty use • Chemical/ Lab use/ testing • General use • Office/ PC use • Machine use, supporting tools • Isolation Workbenches • Portable (light weight) workbench • Saw-horse, Support for cutting
Criteria for designing and selection • Structurally sound spanning 8’x4’ • Weight less than 200kg • Lead time for sourcing • Lead time for designing • Lead time for fabricating (cutting and assembly) • HeavyDuty but not excessively heavy in itself • Multipurpose functionality/ flexible • Easy to replicate (digital fabrication if possible) • Value for money - overall cost • Durability • Material Availability • Scalability • Potential for prominent design language Harleen Dhawan
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02 Three designs were proposed, out of which the 01 and 02 were decided to be prototyped in-scale and tested for a year, and the final one to be scaled up to 100 workbenches to be used in the facility, with required changes.
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Features DESIGN 01 THE TRILEG • DISMANTLABLE FRAME for ease of transportation & storage • INTEGRATED SIDEBOARD for addition of modules like power rail, pegboard, overhead lighting, storage/shelf • STORAGE BINS for project storage as part of bottom rail • LATTICE STRUCTURE for top frame serves as storage options and acts as a lightweight yet rigid structure WORKBENCH COMPONENTS • Trileg (composite stackable legs) - welded 50mm MS tube • Bottom ladder - welded - 50mm MS tube + 50mm flat • Top lattice - welded - 50mm or 75mm flats + L angles All three components fastened together with metal brackets FRAME COMPONENTS • Trileg acting as module mounting component • Tying members MODULES • Overhead light • Power rail • Storage bin rail • Peg board / french cleat • Overhead sheet storage (*) Harleen Dhawan
Various components and modules integ
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Components of the Mobile Sid
Weight Estimation (desired weight not to go beyond 200kg) Harleen Dhawan
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deboard/ Tool Trolley station
Process pictures of in-house fabrication of various components
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DESIGN 02 THE M30 • Frame design based on junction and runners • completely dismantlable • INTEGRATED MODULE CUBICLE for additions like removable storage trays, overhead lighting, overhead storage/shelf for sheets and other consumables • STORAGE SHELF (2’) for project storage as part of bottom bracing (footrest) • LATTICE BENCHTOP BOX, serves as storage unit WORKBENCH COMPONENTS • Junctions - 3mm Powder coated MS sheet metal • Runners - 75mm Alu tube • Top structure - 25mm Alu tube FRAME COMPONENTS • Upper Y - fastened 75mm Alu tube • Lower Y - fastened 75mm Alu tube • Tying Vertical Members - fastened 75mm Alu tube All three components fastened together with metal brackets MODULES • Overhead light • Power rail • Storage bin rail
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• Peg board / french cleat • Overhead sheet storage (*)
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Lattice structure providing str functional utility
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ructural strength as well as
Process pictures of in-house fabrication of the lattice structure
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PROJECT ALCHEMY Series Of 3 DigitallyFabricated Products to showcase capabilties of laser-cutting Harleen Dhawan
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The concept and design won the Grand Prize in Instructables-Autodesk contest ‘Made With Math’; Furniture installed in the office of T-Hub, T-Works, T-Promotions CEO, Sujai Karampuri
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Laser-cut layered Birch Plywood coaster casted in resin (150x150mm)
01 Laser-cut layered Birch Plywood wall-pi ece (450x450mm)
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Laser-cut layered Birch Plywood Furniture Coffee Table (600x600mm)
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Challenge
Digital illustration
After laser-cutting
The challenge was to create a product that showcases the capabilties of laser-cutting. Hence, a series of three different scaled products was designed that showcases the intricacies possible through laser-cutting, from a 150x150mm coaster to a 600x600mm coffee table.
Adobe Illustrator to design the successive layers, minding the tolerance constraints of laser-cutting
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PROJECT SHESK
Scissor-type side-hinge to convert desk to shelf for flexible workspace
Convertible Desk-Shelf for flexible work-space
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CLIENT : T-Works Foundation SITE : Hitec, Hyderabad TYPOLOGY : Custom Furniture Design April, 2022 (On-going)
Motivation 600x450mm lockable storage
600x450mm desk space
The 78,000 sqft facility with a number of workshops, open to public 24/7 comes with several challenges, one of them being space-crunch. The space is programmed to be constantly dynamic, hence a need to design a convertible, lockable shelf-desk for flexible work-space.
Challenges The hinge mechanism that is concealed and sits on the narrow 8mm Birch Plywood width Designing a lightweight system with least amount of effort and cognitive barrier
Learnings Fabricating prototypes in-house, exploring a variety of hinges from side-hinge/ scissor hinge to concealed hinges
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UX DIVAMI
User and Task Research for UX-design project for the Coursera Specialization ‘Interaction Design’
GRAPHICS & RESEARCH PROJECTS UX Design Research Projects for the digital media
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A web-application to configure property details in less time for a real estate agent company
PROCESS FOLLOWED
Understanding the problem statement and assumptions, the target user at the end User Persona Evaluating current available options of methods for doing the task - flow of tasks from start to finish User Flow after experiencing the process first-hand Recognizing recurring, basic User Objectives, the constants and variables of the database, recognizing current pain points User Experience Strategies to help address current pain points, and essentially - decrease time spent, and increase efficiency (improving the current template) Developing Information Architecture and testing it Wireframes
Research Interact with the user
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Empathize Be the user
Define & Derive Know the user problem
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APPROACH • The approach while starting the assignment was to first begin by acting as the user itself and understanding the process followed currently for such a task to recognize pain points, gaps and opportunities of organizing the data, and eventually, how it would then help in minimizing repeated details and following up with updates. • Another design approach figured out early on was to put down a list of assumptions of the tasks-flow to narrow down the scope of improvement
How Might We approach ‘How Might We’ is a design thinking activity used to translate problems into opportunities for strategizing and iterating the experience we ought to build. This process gets the creativity flowing and encourages to think about the problem with different perspectives.
Iterate Break down the strategies
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How might we make the user confident while using the app
How might we create a minimal experience to document the information faster
How might we develop a good content strategy to make the tool’s information relevant
How might we make the user collaborate with the team easily
How might we develop an interface that reminds the user about important things ad deadlines
How might we create a simple intuitive UI elements and organization
How might we develop the app such that the user has to keep least things in mind/ memory
How might we design the info- architecture so the user intuitively knows where they are in the product and where the information is
Skeleton Information Architecture
Prototype Design and stick to it
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Rajendra Sharma (27, Male) Rajendra Sharma is a technical officer at a real estate company, with a degree in Business. He is a tech savy young professional and is proefficient in technical softwares and has high standards of productivity.
-Technical officer at Urja real estate corporation since 1 year -Based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India -Role includes recording and maintaining details of real-estate projects
Motivations -Eager to learn -Wants to take on more clients -Willing to expand his knowledge and softwares
Goals -To use his time efficiently -To make more money -To realise outdated methods
Pain Points/ Challenges
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-Outdated data-management method -Repeating listings due to inefficient software -Wastes time cold-calling the builders to learn that the listing has expired -Planning and organizing of the database -Shrinking timelines & finding reliable software
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Visualizing the broad Tabs, Sub-tabs and features Harleen Dhawan
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INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE LAUNCH PAGE
LOG-IN
ON-BOARDING
SIGN-UP
DASHBOARD OVERVIEW
MESSAGES
USER DETAILS
MOBILE VERIFICATION
CONTACT INFO
VERIFICATION SUCCESS
BUILDERS
PROFILE/ ACCOUNT
ALL PROPERTIES DIRECTORY
ACTIVE
INACTIVE
PROPERTY
PROPERTY
CONSTRUCTION COST
ADDRESS INFO
NEW
ADD NEW PROPERTY
BLOCK/ TOWER FLAT NUMBER
BUILDER INFO
DOCUMENTS
MEDIA
COMMON AMENITIES
structure materials, doors and windows materials, painting, flooring, tile cladding, kitchen specs, bathroom specs, electrical specs, communication specs (intercom), STP, power backup specs, plumbing, lift, fire safety, security, car washing facility, and LPG, water availability, Vastu compliant.
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SELECT PROPERTY
COMMON AMENITIES
MAINTENANCE REQUESTS, STATUS
REQUESTS & STATUS
OPEN
CONTACT DETAILS
STAKEHOLDERS INFO
CLOSED
STAFF
ALL
VENDOR
STAKEHOLDERS
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SELECT PROPERTY
SELECT TOWER
WASHING MACHINE
REFRIGERATOR
FALSE CEILING
FURNISHING LEVEL
NO. OF BEDROOMS
NO. OF BATHROOMS
STOVE
AC SYSTEMS
NO. OF BALCONIES
NO. OF POWDER ROOM
PARKING SPACE
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BALCONY AREA
ROOMS AREA
CARPET AREA
SUPER-BUILT AREA
BUILT AREA
INDIVIDUAL AMENITIES
FLAT DETAILS
AREA CALCULATION
DIRECTION SIMULATION STATUS OF PROPERTY COSTING AND SELLING RATE PET-FRIENDLY PHOTOS/ WALKTHROUGH VIDEOS
GARDEN
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POOL
MAIN ROAD
WINDOW FACING
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Flat Flat Tab Tab to to document document information information details details of of the the particular particular flat flat of of aa selected selected tower tower of o Harleen Dhawan
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Wire-frames for editing the listings
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Testing the solution
editing is easier number of clicking, typing, scrolling etc. reduced and made intuitive
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minimizing and compiling sources and stakeholders
maintaining status is faster
less things to keep in memory - less human error
dashboard to overview and browse easier to collaborate with other techncal officers
catalogue of all listings in a cascading manner
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Using AI Capabilties Named Entity recognition (NER)
Text Summarization
Identifies entities such as people, locations, organizations, dates, etc. from the text.
To summarize large chunks of text, using extraction , summary using parts of the text, and abstraction, creating summary by generating text that conveys the crux of the original text.
Could be used for: compiling data from scattered sources and auto-enter repetitive data across the platform area calculation
Could be used for: Maintenance requests feedback
Could be used for: address common amenities list
Could be used for: Maintenance requests
Could be used for: compiling data from different sources like project report.
Used in customer surveys, reviews and social media comments where people express their opinions and feedback. The simplest output coud be :positive/negative/neutral, active/inactive, urgent/moderately urgent/less urgent, calculated using the polarities of the words used.
It involves extracting aspects or features of an entity and figuring out opinions about those aspects. It’s a method of text classification that has evolved from SA and NER.
Intelligent software further won’t require templates, keywords, exact definitions, or indexing to get the job done. It extracts the right information and makes sense of a wide variety of documents on its own, regardless of format, language or symbols used.
Sentiment analysis (SA)
Aspect Mining
Synonym Matching search
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BUSINESS CARDS First Touchpoint for a Government Company
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CLIENT : T-Works Foundation SITE : Hitec, Hyderabad TYPOLOGY : Graphic Design December, 2021
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Personal role To understand the current perceived brand-identity of T-Works and add to its desired brand-identity.
Keywords: T-Works:
Government:
youthful
simple
modern
stable/ geometry
facilties
classic
informal
formal
Challenges The challenge was to create a blend of the conflicting identities of the two aspects of T-Works classic Government touch with the youthful modern identity of T-Works as a prototyping center. 2020-2022
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Digital Illustrations and 3d Visualization/ Rendering
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Interior Architectural Projects Structure Drawings, Working-Technical Drawings, 3d Visualization
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CLIENT : Let’s Rome SITE : Satellite, Ahmedabad TYPOLOGY : Furniture Design July, 2018
Personal role The concept of the cafe is to reflect Roman or Greek style of architecture in the interior of the cafe. The idea was to derive inspiration from certain elements and motifs of Roman architecture, such as the Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric orders of columns.
Challenges The challenge was to iterate Greek motifs and language to metamorph into a modern and sleek look.
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teak wood frame polished with Laminate
25mm plywood wooden legs with black laminate
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teak wood frame polished with laminate wooden legs with black laminate
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CUBICAL SHOWER
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LCD UNIT
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PARENTS ROOM 18'-0"X12'-9"
STORE ROOM 7'-3"X4-3"
PASSAGE AREA 6'-6"X5-7½"
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vitrified tiles behind mirror and wardrobe
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switch board
ceiling point
linetype :wiring
wall point
linetype: looping
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Anamorphic Drawings
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HandDrafting
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PUBLISHES & RESEARCH WRITING
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Four 1000+ words articles discussing the world of architecture-design published on the digital magazine, ‘Rethinking The Future’ - How effective is studio system in architectural and design education? - Presentation Sheets - How much is enough? - Sangath - An orchestrated experience - 15 projects by Elizabeth Roberts - a documentation
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Blog Writing for the Project Biopot published on the website of T-Works, covering the entire journey of ideating, developing and prototyping for the project, as well as the societal impact it generated.
Original Project ‘Synergizing the Beauty of Mathematics and Art’ published and featured on the website ‘Instructables’, reaching over 20,000 views in under three months, and thereon also won a Grand Prize of $500 in the Instructables’Autodesk Contest - ‘Made With Math’. 2020-2022
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