Vidhi Mehta
PRODUCT & EXPERIENCE DESIGNER Work Compilation December 2015
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I believe that design has the power to craft new experiences for people: simplifying & enhancing lives. I derive insights from observing & engaging with people, understanding how they use and interact with technology. Using design, I want to create products & services that integrate themselves seamlessly into our lives, capitalize on our unique strengths & amplify the best of human nature.
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2015
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Royal College of Art, Imperial College MA + MSc, Distinction Innovation Design Engineering
Entrepreneur First Post/Biotics
Global Grad Show, Dubai James Dyson Award, Runners-up Helen Hamlyn & InnovateUK Award for Inclusive Design ShowRCA Dyson Bursary Finalist, Venture Capitalist Challenge Althea Imperial Entrepreneurship Fellow
2014
Shenkar College of Engineering & Design Go Global
Agency of Design Strategy Design Intern
National Model United Nations, New York
Ford, Student Project RioTinto, Student Project
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2013
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Climate Kic Fellow
Royal College of Art & Imperial College Started Innovation Design Engineering
Schmidt Mac Arthur Fellowship WIP Show Royal College of Art British Gas, Connecting Homes Start-up Finalist, Project: Flux
2012
National Institute of Design Graduate Diploma in Product Design
2011
Ducere Technologies, LeChal Product Designer Microsoft, CRM Dynamics User Experience Intern
1st Prize IGNITE (Tata Elxsi) Project: Tyubes
Quicksand Studio & Clean Hands Inc. User Research Intern
India Future of Change, Top 20 Project: Jal Chakra Victoria India Service Design Jam Department of Business and Innovation, Australia
2010
Hochschule Gestaltung Pforzheim Exchange Program, Product Design
Scholarship from (DAAD) German Academic Exchange Service
2008
National Institute of Design (India) Started Graduate Diploma Program in Design
TATA Ford Foundation Scholarship
STORY TELLING
PHYSICAL PROTOTYPING
DIGITAL PROTOTYPING
USER RESEARCH
toolbox
CONTEXTUAL MAPPING
STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
SYSTEMS THINKING
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
USER EXPERIENCE
Post/Biotics
citizen science, antibiotics
Thrive
Bunna
craft, story-telling
Limo
healthcare, NICU, infants
mass manufacturing, lemon squeezer
Hedgehog
LeChal
origami, chair, craft
Mimic
disabled sports, ski, teaching
haptic footwear, navigation
STOR.e
warranty management, post-sales
Flux
connected homes, energy
OrbitO
electronics, buffer, automobile
Hand Hygiene
washing, behavior change
IQey
tactile play, sand
Post/Biotics What if the world’s next antibiotic is in your backyard? Post/Biotics is a toolkit that empowers citizen scientists to reduce sole reliance on pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics. The coming cost of antimicrobial resistance is 10 million deaths per annum by 2050. Most known antibiotics are developed from natural extracts, so potentially a new antibiotic could be anywhere. Post/Biotics distributes empirical research to school students by creating a platform for them to participate in this process. The popup lab, allows students to participate in discovering substances with antimicrobial values by testing locally available plants, vegetables, fruits, fungi, mushrooms & soil. Featured in
Credits: In collaboration with Josiah Zayner & Imperial College Biochemistry Dept. www.post-biotics.com
Awards
Exhibitions & Conferences
Imperial College London Royal College of Art July 2015
video add
Pilot Study Tutor Interview: Joanne Nichols, UCL
Solo toolkit prototype and use infographics
Child collecting and labeling a sample
Concept Video
Pilot Study Student Interview, India
collect samples
test for antimicrobials
record information
validate
collaborate with scientific experts
publish research
User testing Post/Bioitcs Solo toolkit with Swen, 9 years
Pop-up lab contains: Incubation zone 5 prepared testplates Sample collection tray Sample bags Buffer solution Iso-propyl alcohol Non pathogenic E.coli cultures Bio-waste bags for disposal
Concept Poster for Show RCA & London Design Festival Exhibition, 2015
Post/Biotics app Download from Android Store
Post/Biotics is a citizen science project to reduce sole reliance on pharmaceutical companies to discover new antibiotics. is inapplication collaboration with Imperial College London & Royal College of Art. Vector illustration of toolkit Itand Project developed by Vidhi Mehta Front image copyright Klari Art LLC
Sample bags use bar-coded graphic to identify sample in software
Phase 2: Information architecture & flow diagram
Link to Flow Diagram
Phase 3: User testing with stakeholders
Phase 1: Prototyping of wire frames
Images: Screenshot & wire frames of the Post/Bioitcs app App is currently beta tested with schools in UK & India, platform allows data collection along with the toolkit on location, species, photograph & antimicrobial value of the specimen. Children are engaged by providing virtual rewards & badges for the number of samples & area spread covered.
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Awards & Competitions:
Exhibitions & Conferences
Thrive A companion for the families of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, creating a seamless transition from hospital to home. The device integrates with existing medical sensor technology and records information about the baby’s health and environment. The data is stored in the cloud. It can be accessed and easily understood by both parents and medical professionals. Thrive is part of the future of preventative patient-centered healthcare, helping parents to monitor high-risk infants and reducing communication time for both parents and medical professionals, so that any problems are captured early and the whole family has the best chance at long and healthy lives. www.thrivecompanion.com Group Project: Erika Laiche, Chunhao Weng, Ammo Liao, Vidhi Mehta Royal College of Art, Imperial College December 2014
Concept Video
Form Sketches for Thrive Hub and Band
SOUND
MOTION Sensor
Decibel Levels
LIGHT
PULSE Sensor
Reminders
WIFI
BAND strapped on leg of baby
OXYGEN Sensor
Signal
TEMPERATURE Sensor
MICRO CHIP
Data Aggregation
POWER HUB
ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLY
Storyboard THRIVE
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Infant in NICU
Infant ready to be discharged
Infant needs specialised equipment
Nurse uses Thrive to set threshold information
Parents take infant home and set up Thrive
Thrive uses nurse’s instructions, finds optimum time to take measurements of body vitals
Ping to remind care taker / parent to take measurements
Parent / caretaker uses Thrive wearable to take body vitals
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Nurse suggests to monitor infant over a duration
Nurse observes trends consults a doctor & calls infant to hospital
Nurse has access to information to infants vital recording and context data
Thrive connects parents to nurse
If Thrive thinks there is something wrong or parents have a concern
Parents enter in other relevant data e.g. rash on left thigh
Indicates if measurements taken correctly using contextual data, infant moving too much
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Infant comes to healthcare center and is kept under observation until recovery
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Nurse also has access to other infants’ data and general practices
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Thrive assists in keeping health records on track and monitoring progress
As the infant becomes The equipment is returned Parents connect with other healthier and does not back to healthcare center to parents with infants with need specialised equipment be given to another infant similar ailment and contextual information
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Contextual information generated by Thrive gives healthcare center better means to create predictive care for infants.
THRIVE NURSE PORTAL
Nurse has access to data points of baby’s vitals and home environment for a span of the day. The data can be compared with patients with similar conditions Thrive nurse’s portal, it allows nurse to create unique case study for each child the hospital caters to
Grant access to equipment (thermometer, pulseoximeter, cpap) and tune thresholds as per the child’s needs
Check trends and have access to other patient trends. The thresholds help nurse in making better decision
Based on nurse’s consideration the baby can be put under observation or the case can be forwarded to specialist for case in point
THRIVE PARENT PORTAL
Transfer the reminder to next caregiver if the parent is not around the child
Reminder for measurement and medicines
Often precise medical measurements require correct technique of measurement, Thrive indicates when it recognizes false measurement and preempts retake
Indicates when measurements are correct and in the normal range. Numerical and statistical feedback is limited in the parent portal
The portal allows to call the nurse (hospital) when parents seek advice or if the measurements show early signs of distress
SENSORS BODY VITALS
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MULTIPLE PATIENTS DATA INTERACTION WITH CHILD
INTERACTION THROUGH THRIVE
THRIVE INTERACTION WITH THRIVE
PATIENT DATA WITH CONTEXT GEO SPATIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
PATIENT INFORMATION & THRESHOLDS (SET BY NURSE)
NURSE AT NICU / PEDIATRICIAN
GENERAL PRACTICES
ALERTS WHEN REQUIRED PARENTS
SECONDARY CAREGIVER
FIRST EVALUATION, PREDICTIVE CONDITIONS
FINAL ANALYSIS & DECISION MAKING
INFORMATION FLOW DIAGRAM
Hedgehog Hedgehog is a lounge chair made of 3000 singular 3d origami paper triangles. This chair is a result of collaborative craftsmanship combining aspects of traditional Japanese art forms blended together in a fashionable manner making it perfect for a modern European house. The chair comprises triangles snuggly fit into each other to create a tessellated structure with an intricate aesthetic look. The structure is made out of paper and a wooden supporting structure providing it with the required sturdiness. Paper (Tyvek) & Birch wood Royal College of Art December 2013
Exhibitions & Conferences
Making the chair
MIMIC Learning to sit-ski can be a powerful liberating experience for wheelchair users and people with lower limb disabilities. It can nonetheless be a difficult task. We paired with several adaptive snow sports associations to radically simplify the learning process, one of the biggest barriers to entry. Mimic was designed alongside instructors and students. From them we gained a key insight: students learn faster when multiple senses are engaged at the same time. Mimic bridges the gap between instructor and student by providing real-time, accurate visual cues. We scanned and mapped the motion of elite athletes to create a moving image of a sit skier, which is projected in front of the students, guiding their practice. The images are adapted to the student’s expertise and enable them to perfect their technique by imitating the movements.
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Exhibitions
Group Project: Erika Laiche, Chema Pastrana, Daniel Walklin, Vidhi Mehta Royal College of Art, Imperial College February 2014
Prototype test video
Concept video
Use case scenario sketch
Human rig for sit skiing
Animation and node modeling for the figure
Test prototype of augmented reality ski goggles
Prototype testing
Team showcasing Mimic at Imperial Rio-Tinto Sports Exhibition
Bunna The Ehete (Amharic for sisterhood) center is a cooperative of Beta Israeli women from Ethiopia who have come together to create traditional Ethiopian crafts using coil weaving, clay, and embroidery. These women use the center in Kiryat Gat as their cultural community and as a means for much needed financial independence. We collaborated with women from Ehete to create an end to end making process that takes 2D clay slabs to make 3D forms using linoleum carved patterns and primitive geometry molds. Bunna is coffee product line. The product line narrates Ethiopian cultural stories manifested in their coffee ritual. We have created the Jebena, a traditional coffee maker and serving vessel, the Kos, the Israeli coffee cup, and the Ner, the tealight holder. Group Project: Katarzyna, Judith Berger, Vidhi Mehta & Hagar Roth (Shenkar College of Engineering & Design) GoGlobal in Israel Royal College of Art & Shenkar College March 2014 Collaboration: Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
“We can make wall patterns with the rolling pin, it opens up so many new opportunities” אנחנו יכולים לעשות את קיר דפוסים זה פותח כל כך הרבה,עם המערוך הזדמנויות חדשות Showing the final tools to EHETE ladies and Shula, head of the women organization
Rolling clay
Shaping slab on mold
Carving stories in linoleum
Rolling pattern on clay
Final products: tea cups
Shaping clay on mold
Molds
Teaching women to carve
Final Product: Neer, coffee container
Final Product
LEMO Lemo is a lemon tea maker for the brand ±0, part of the module “I’ll Take Nine”. ±0 creates products as a single lifestyle tool. Household electric goods and household items are not devices that stand by themselves in our lives– they exist in a state of mutual harmony. ±0 believes that designing things that coexist together is natural. Made of stainless steel and ceramic slipcast Lemo encompasses the values of ±0. Lemo brings the Japanese culture of lemon tea into a modern European household creating harmonious cultural transfers “I’ll Take Nine”, challenges teams to swap projects throughout the module helping us understand how a lot of commercial projects undergo. The final week involves creating 9 replicas of the product to prove the concept of how it shall be produced in the industry. Group Project: Sara Zarkani, Wei Che, Sungwhoon, Vidhi Mehta Royal College of Art March 2014 Hypothetical Project for
Making the lemon squeezer blade: boring holes in a stainless steel rod and then turning them on CNC lathe
Laser welding plate and blade
Making the base plate by punching holes and press molding the edge groove
Casting the cup from the positive and negative molds
Use scenario for Lemo
SOKOSAFARI Sokosafari is a project for African mobility challenge, imagining the future of mobility and it’s role in development in Africa. Confidential Project Group Project: Ammo Liao, Dai Lun & Vidhi Mehta Royal College of Art June 2014
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LECHAL LECHAL (pronounced lay-ch-al, meaning “take me there� in Hindi) is a product by Ducere Technologies. It is an interactive footwear with haptic feedback. Lechal started as a project with a social aspect, which was to create an aid for the visually impaired and each pair sold will result in a subsidized pair for blind people. LeChal pairs a smart phone app with small actuators sewn inside the soles of a shoe via Blue-tooth. Le Chal uses a vibrating signals to assist navigation for the visually impaired. I joined the team as a Product Designer to assist in prototyping and development of Le Chal. For the first iteration I worked with the team on a pair of insoles that can be sold individually and can be used by people in their own shoes and sandals. Role: Product Designer September-January 2012-13
Promotional video
Assembly renders (CAD models)
LeChal was officially launched in Mumbai, India in March 2014. It is up for preordering and shall start sales from 2015. www.lechal.com LeChal is co-founded by Anirudh Sharma and Krispian Lawrence
Iterations for placement of internal components
Schematic diagram and internal components of insole
STOR.e Undergraduate Thesis Project focused on the theme of “Future of Customer Service.” In last decade, people’s expectations with customer service have changed drastically. People want to be served anywhere, anytime and on their own terms. At the same time, companies are challenged with multiple channels through which their customers are approaching them to get services. It is becoming a nightmare for companies to satisfy their customers’ need and in turn bringing customer loyalty. STOR.e proposes a service and application based post sales customer relationship management model. Thesis Project National Institute of Design February - September 2012 Client: Microsoft CRM Dynamics, India
Concept video
The concept resulted into development of post sales service application for consumer durables for the customer companies of Microsoft Dynamics.
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I think that most houses have a depository for user guides, instruction manuals, and warranties. In my house it is a drawer. In some houses it is a binder. In still other houses, it is broken up into 25 different places around the house.
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Information Work flow
Low-fidelity prototype videos
FLUX Flux is a subscription based service that helps households monitor and take action over their total household and appliance specific energy consumption. Flux makes it fun, simple and social. The solution manifests itself in two folds. Firstly, the Flux Kit of electricity measurement devices, which measures overall and appliance-specific consumption. Secondly, an online platform shows the transmitted real time data of the Flux Kit and gives personalized, easy to use and action oriented advice on how to save energy. The model aims on generating a large customer base that retains for the product lifetime. This is feasible due to low subscription fees and instant value of return on investment for the customers. Group Project: Sebastian Georgi, Marianna Budaragina, Ben Vermeer, Mingyan Meng, Vidhi Mehta Climate KIC Summer School August 2013 Website: www.fixmyflux.tumblr.com Exhibitions:
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ORBITO OrbitO is a redesign of a hand held random orbital buffer for amateur users. It is a battery operated tool that works on 3 pad tripod like mechanism. It allows variable speed control. The project exposed me to various complex mechanisms that are part of a functional power tool. The project was executed in 3 stages: De-constructing Existing Product: present orbital buffer, based on its efficiency, cost and ease of use. Identifying Problem areas: decided features and goals that I wanted to achieve through the redesign. Mock-ups and prototypes: to test the working mechanism, weight, form and feel of the product. Patent Pending National Institute of Design December 2011
Working Prototype Video
Sketch models
Mechanism model
Exploded view of the mechanism
Sketch models
MOBILE INSIGHTS ‘While, in many Western countries, the advent of mobile technologies was seen as an evolutionary step forward, in developing nations it could be seen as a mobile revolution. NCR are looking to countries such as India to understand how businesses and consumers are adopting mobile technologies and the opportunities this may create.� Steven Birnie, Senior Industrial Designer, NCR January 2012 Project in collaboration with MSc students Dundee
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THE HAND HYGIENE PROJECT Clean Hands Inc. is a joint venture with Val Curtis of LSHTM and Helen Trevaskis, innovation and behavior change consultant. The task was to assist in the development of a new affordable hand cleansing technology and deliver it to low income consumers in developing countries via a sustainable scalable social business. Over a three-month period from March - May 2011, research and prototyping took place in five lowincome communities around Pune. This enabled in-depth research resulting in defined principles and guidelines for product design and a short-list of product ideas. The potential for impact on health is considerable if the technology is widely adopted and used at critical moments such as after defecation and before eating. Project in collaboration with students from MIT, Pune, India April-June 2011 Project Website: http://quicksand.co.in
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IQEY “The culture of children is threatened by mass media and overproduction of plastic playthings that are ready-made and demand nothing of the child.” Sand, on the other hand, is well-suited to the exploratory and imaginative nature of young children. Balke, E. (1997) Play and the Arts: The Importance of the “Unimportant.” IQey is an intelligent turtle that combines the traditional sand play with modern technology to create a fun & learn interactive toy for toddlers. Virtual+Real+Move=Device Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany Sponsor VISENSO GmbH
HEALTHCARE CONCEPT GENERATION SKETCH-NOTES
Testing oximetry measurement using finger oximeter
Use of contact microphone to check sounds generated from food pipe
Flow diagram of the telehealth glove concept
Sketch model of the telehealth glove
Use case scenario of the prototype
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