October 2020 Edition #5
ImaginXP
IN THE “NOW” Lockdown Edition, featuring New Members from the IXP family
Editor
SPEAKS Message from Editor-in-Chief Abhignya Srishaila It is september already, and time has definitely not waited for anyone, nor have we… The industry of education, in fact, is booming in creating new opportunities, exploration of dynamic knowledge and information opening doors to magnificent innovations by the people all over the world. This month celebrates, acknowledges and appreciates those who have guided us and taught us to become what we are today. Since our birth, our home is considered to be our first school and our mothers, our first teacher. Later comes our playschool, kindergarten, school and college institutions. We have often heard of influential inventors, doctors, and designers, but rarely of any teacher. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was one of them, and his birthday is nationally celebrated as Teacher’s day, till date. As a former President of India and a fellow mentor, he strongly believed in the responsibility of teachers to be more than teaching students how to read and write, but a sincere responsibility towards the nation’s development. Behind every successful man, is not just a woman, but also a mentor who has walked with him with pride and confidence. This issue of the newsletter showcases inspiring and interesting projects and works or our students and faculty, and artworks that are also dedicated to gratitude towards teachers. It also showcases the events that took place in the month of September, including the virtual meet of the faculty of ImaginXP for teacher’s day, which was not only fun, but full of surprises. Having said, the ImaginXP family expresses our gratitude, appreciation and respect to all the teachers, mentors and all those who have positively helped us learn, grow and nurture to bring the best version of ourselves. We are also extremely thankful to all our students for their efforts and teaching us the importance of patience and helping us be better mentors. We shall continue to walk together, contributing to learning with and from each other.
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Message from Director general imaginXP Col. Shishir Kumar Being a teacher is no less than a doctor‘s Hippocratic oath. In India, we call teachers ‘Guru’, an embodiment of the spirit of a guide, mentor and educator rather than a mere instructor of curriculum. They are the torch bearers of well balanced, skilled and educated future skills and teaching is a great responsibility on all of our shoulders. For an educator, everyday is a new challenge where we aim to push the limits of science, art, creativity, technology to instil ideas of innovation. Therefore, we learn more so that we can teach better. We, as teachers, empathise, we motivate, we gamify, we create the best version of our students. That’s what our focus is on. Our job as teachers is not just to teach but nurture opportunities for our students to bring corporates, companies, government and students together. This will enable research led thinking amongst our students. It is for us to push the limits of research in our individual fields. Each teacher is a role model and hence we bring in punctuality, efficiency, effectiveness and RoI in everything that we do. We use our influence for the good, to change the fabric of society. For the last 7 years, students trained under the esteemed faculty of ImaginXP have become leaders, changed mindset and brought about innovation that was not seen in India before. It’s magical to see how these students, our best contribution to the country, are riding the wave of future skills. It is very satisfying that we are able to create the impact that we intended to do in the world of higher education. The current pandemic has proven that we need new ways of thinking, working and surviving in the new normal. Let me thank each of you who has supported your students even through these difficult times and instead turned it into an opportunity for growth and learning. While we have seen immense success, there is a long path in front of us. And the story starts with you.
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ImaginXP is a curriculum and certification organization in UX design and Design Thinking About
ImaginXP Design is becoming an omnipresent entity in almost every industry, ranging from fasion to automobile, agriculture to healthcare. But India is still in the phase of exposure to Design education, and is also growing at a competitive pace. ImaginXP is one of India’s leading education companies that provides Undergraduate & Postgraduate degree programs in UX Design. We aim to train aspiring design students about UX Design and Design Thinking through Undergraduate & Postgraduate courses, and short term courses as well. We are currently catering to more than 1500 full-time students at various universities across the country. We also partner with leading corporates to train their workforce on Design Thinking, UX design & other future skills.
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A Designer without education is like a Pilot without training.
What we offer
Never Stop Learning
UG and PG Courses
Short term courses
Corporate Offering
A full fledged curriculum for design education and practice based learning to students across different universities in India.
Offering a variety of intensive courses for design aspirants and professionals, ranging from the duration of 4 weeks to 14 weeks, about different topics like Design Thinking, UX tools & processes, Customer experience etc‌
Our collaboration with leading corporate workforces to offer personalised and customised workshops on design thinking, UX for technologies, UX and Interaction design, based on the organisational needs.
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Partners Corporate Clientle
University Partners
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Testimonials Ritika Ghanghorkar B.Des-UX, Sandip University It is a privilege and a pleasure studying through ImaginXP. This course is a great process of unlocking deeply hidden talents. The course provides extremely interesting subjects and a lot of practical knowledge. The institute offers the students a lot of interactive sessions with industry experts that further expand our knowledge.
Abdul Hak B.Des-UX, Jagannath University Hi, I am Abdul Hak, 2nd year student B.Des-UX, Jagannath University. I am grateful to Abhijeet for introducing this course, in an educational meet in Delhi and it was a great turning point in my life. In the last 2 years, I have been exposed to the future of design and design process, ideation processes, UI software, and many more. To me, the best part is the exposure from the industry experts and guest faculties, which is a constant part on regular basis.
Neha Deshbhratar Faculty ImaginXP I am a NIFT and NID Postgraduate with experience in various projects designing UX. Having a good experience with several brands. Currently working as a Design Faculty at ImaginXP My aesthetic value believes in every small detail. The significant purpose of my work is to give a unique and effective solution to any design challenge with the expertise of my design training and knowledge. I believe in creating responsible design and learning that will continue throughout my career and my life. Highly motivated and enthusiastic about working on different techniques. ImaginXP Newsletter October’20
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Projects Lovish Verma | Chitkara University “Pace - Healthcare App” by Lovish Verma Pace is Healthcare App which is built to challenge friends and digital buddy improve health and get reward. The Goal is to help life path customers track everything related to their Mental & Physical Health and stay balanced along with getting remainders even if they stay behind their goals and daily motivations so that they stay fit in their every aspect of their life. Behance: https://www.behance.net/lovishverma
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Karan Suri | Chitkara University “Amazon Prime - Redesign� by Karan Suri In the year 2017, Amazon - one of the world's largest companies, launched their on-demand video streaming service in India called Amazon Prime. However, since then the visual aesthetics of the website are not up to date with the current styles of UI design. The redesign was done keeping a minimalistic approach which ran parallelly with the user experience of the site. The visual hierarchy was fixed and the logo was also redesigned making it more minimal and clean.
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What happened in August
Demo sessions and more UX Design START LEARNING
Level 01 What is this?
1. r uler
2. ro c ket
3. ro c ker
4. ro bo t
Hello
Search
CONGRATULATION
W h a t do yo u w a n t to le ar n?
A live demo session was conducted to create awareness on the scope and opportunities of UX Design and its ability to adapt in various domains and industries.
Design Thinking A live Demo session was conducted through a virtual classroom to throw light on Design Thinking skills and relevance of Design Thinking in pivoting towards innovation and career development.
Se le ct s ome & be re a dy
Reading Beginner
Excercise Listening
UX Design An exclusive live virtual classroom was conducted for those who were interested in learning and upgrading their skills in visual design and Visual design tools.
Launch of ‘Design Review’ Design Review by ImaginXP
https://tinyurl.com/designreviewixp
Volume 1, July 2020
ImaginXP launched its first Bi-annual Design Journal- Design Review, showcasing a range of inspiring works, experiences and portfolios by students, Mentors and Design Professionals in context of UX Design and Design Thinking.
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Instalive session with Richard Yang ImaginXP conduct a Fireside Chat via Insta-live Session with Mr. Richard Yang (Richard Yang) – Product Designer at Facebook. In the interactive session many points were discussed including Richard’s journey as a UX Designer, how he was introduced to the world of UX, his experience as a Product Designer at Facebook – A Global Social Media Giant and many others. The session was highly inspiring and motivating for young designers!
Teachers day message by Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar The Director General of ImaginXP Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar wrote a heartfelt and inspiring letter to all the teachers. In the letter, he talks about empathizing with students, taking every day as a new challenge, nurturing opportunities, keeping an open mind and being a role model.
Journey after NEET
JEE/NATA
Blog by Prof. Col Shishir Kumar on Journey after Neet/JEE/ NATA The Director General of ImaginXP Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar talks about opportunities available beyond engineering and medical for students. He explains how not going ahead with JEE/NEET/NATA may open a world of interesting and more promising future.
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Interview of Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar by TwinWin CEO In this interview, The Director General of ImaginXP Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar shares several essential life lessons that everyone should imbibe. He talks about entrepreneurship, life's struggles and the mantra to become successful in life.
Launch of ImaginXP Shop & exclusive UX gear from ImaginXP ImaginXP launches a set of merchandise for UX geeks including customer journey mapping notebook, user reaserch notebook, wireframe journal – responsive + web, wireframe sketchpad for mobile and website, persona journal and super cool designer T-shirts.
Webinar on Design Thinking and its importance in UX by Shruti Sachan Shruti Sachan, a Design researcher and a UX Design faculty at ImaginXP, conducted a webinar on the importance of Design Thinking in the field of UX. She emphasises on empathy and observation as a power tool in deriving effective insights and how they can be used to solve day to day problems.
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Demo session on UI Design & Tools ImaginXP conducted a Demo session on UI Design & Tools which helped viewers discover the important tools of UI as per industry standards. For young and aspiring designers, the discussion was on the ways to make a career as a UI designer.
Virtual teacher's day celebration "Teacher's day was virtually celebrated with all the in-house faculty of ImaginXP, hosted by our Director General, Prof. col Shishir on Zoom. The celebration was filled with fun interactions among the faculty and beautiful messages by the students to their mentors"
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Creative
Canvas
01 Anshul Kumar DIT University
02 Sakshi Sandip University
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04 Shailja Singh UX Design Faculty at ImaginXP
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Contact
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