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n o i t c u introd Career interest

Screen interfaces, Usability, Web based applications, Design Management, Business Development, Research.

Qualification

Post Graduate diploma in User interface design National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad | 2007-current Bachelor of Computer science Engineering Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune | 2003-2006 Diploma in Computer Engineering SSVPS Polytechnic, Dhule (MSBTE Bombay) | 2000-2003

about me I am a keen observer with innate leadership qualities, multitasking capabilities, excellent graphical, analytical and logical ability. Fast learner with desire to constantly update my current set of skills. I am not afraid to take risks or to make mistakes but I make sure not repeat them. I am 100% committed , attentive to detail and relentlessly tenacious towards any task undertaken.

Technical skills

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BiPP

Bill presentment and payment application for Interactive TV

BiPP is an application that allows itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s viewers to pay household bills through a two way interactive TV. The study was focused on social importance and emotional involvement of Indian users while paying household bills, also technological possibilities of 2-way interactivity on TV was taken into consideration. The designed concept has attempted to solve the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problem by combining the selective features of e-commerce and interactive TV, which is termed as T-commerce.

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BiPP

Bill presentment and payment application for Interactive TV

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Studied the technology used in the Interactive TV. Studied existing interactive television services and interfaces. Studied existing design standards for television. Worked on scenarios and see how the system will work. Field study to find out what the administration and users have to say about the application. Found out loop holes in the existing interfaces. Came up with a new business model. Designed the new application, described the primary, secondary and value added features. Designed a GUI for the application.

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fig. 01 - findings from the field study. fig. 02 - the proposed business model. fig. 03 - icon showing the new bill arrived on live screen. fig. 04 - the application screen

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Easy Measure

E-learning website to help kids learn about measurements.

The project aimed at designing e-learning site for user group, (kids of age group 9-12 years). The needs arising out of the importance and complexity of maths and measurement in day to day life. The designed site is enhanced to teach the generalities in measurement subject. The interactive and animated elements, games and activities on the site makes the learning experience more impactful and interesting for kids. The designed site is a simple interactive tool for kids indulging them in learning while playing. The content of the site also provides information which can be used by teachers and parents to enhance their knowledge about measurements.

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Easy Measure

E-learning website to help kids learn about measurements.

Process Followed • Analyzed existing e-learning websites to know what exists out there. • Decide on the subject and the target user of the website. • Conceptualizing the subject and deciding the contents of the site. • Information Architecture by categorization and grouping. • Paper Prototyping for rapid testing. • Heuristic Evaluation so as to make the site more usable. • Flash Prototype to give it a more real like feel.

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fig. 01 - the website screen. fig. 02 - information architecture

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Bowl..IT

Bowling Interactive Trainer kit for cricketers.

Bowl..IT kit is designed to act as a users personal bowling trainer, helping them to enhance their bowling skills. The kit contains a interactive kiosk, a large display screen and cameras. It provides users with immediate feedback on comprehensive and accurate trajectory analysis including ball speed, hand angle, ball spin, ball line-length and swing path measurements. It has feature of creating and storing several bowlers profile and also providing them personal tips and tricks on improving their skills.

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Bowl..IT

Bowling Interactive Trainer kit for cricketers.

Process Followed

Fig. 01 - the virtual screen used as net for practice. Fig. 02 - the kiosk screen. Fig. 03 - screen displaying the bowler’s statistics

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• Conceptualization of the idea. • Observing the bowlers behaviour while bowling and how it changes. • Understanding the difference in bowling during match and net practice. • Basic user study through interview and contextual inquiry • Cognitive and physical ergonomics to design the product • Anthropometry to find the exact dimension • Information architecture and the navigational map of the application. • Designing the GUI and icons. fig. 03

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CAReAT

Interactive Kiosk for Suratâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diamond market.

CAReAT is designed to provide needful diamond related information to the stakeholders for buying and selling the precious stones. This interactive kiosk allows users to enter and retrieve the details about diamonds and the brokers. The designed GUI is fast and intuitive, allowing the stakeholders to experience the fast and error free transactions.

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CAReAT

Interactive Kiosk for Surat’s Diamond market.

Process Followed • System level understanding of the diamond industry. • Understanding each aspect of diamond from mine to market. • Literature Review on the process of buying and selling of diamonds. • Field study of the diamond market in surat, gujarat. • Questionnaire and Contextual Enquiry for Insights and Direction. • Studying the existing standards for designing touch screen interface. • Anthropometry to find the dimension of the koisk • Information architecture and the navigational map of the application. • Designing the kiosk and the GUI interface.

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DuOld

Dual screen interface product for elderly who loves to read

The aim of the project was to design a simple, easy to use interactive device for elderly people with age of 50 years and more. An interactive device with dual screen interface helps user to keep them inform about the current affairs through e-newspaper and e-magazines, which are delivered to the device every morning. This project was done as part of a two week course of UI prototyping. It involved going through an entire product design and development life cycle, including idea generation, concept development, testing and manufacturing or implementation of a physical product.

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DuOld

Dual screen interface product for elderly who loves to read

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Fig. 01 - the pictured user group during the field study. Fig. 02 - the sketches of the persona. Fig. 03 - the interface screens of the device. Fig. 04 - the scenario depicted in form of flash animation

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• Selected Target Audience to focus on their needs and requirements. • Field Study and Observation of the user group to learn about their activities • Persona to detail out the character of the user. • Brain Storming and Categorization to find a product topic. • Topic Refinement. • Form Exploration of the product. • Features to be included in the product. • Designing the Interaction between product and user. • Designing the GUI of the application • Model Making in Thermocol and MDF. • Story Boarding to tell the features of the product. • Advertisement in Flash to sell the product

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mAdapter

mobile phone adapter with memory storage

What happens to your valuable phone contacts, when your mobile is lost or stolen?? 100% chances are that you cannot retrieve it back.

But the answer to the question is memory enabled cellphone adapter, which has the capability to backup your phone contacts when you charge the phone. mAdapter have its internal memory in form of flash memory chip, which is commonly used in USB flash drives. The communication between the adapter and the phone is possible with the Bluetooth technology, which is a wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances.

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mAdapter

mobile phone adapter with memory storage

Features • Beeping sound when the adapter is kept plugged when not in use. • Requests backup whenever the phone is kept for charging. • Supports 3 profiles for separate data backup. • Adapter bluetooth starts automatically when phone is connected to it. • Clips to fix the wire, avoiding the wire entanglement. • LED to represent the charged cellphone. • Displays the progress of the data transfer. • Clips to fix the wire, avoiding the wire entanglement. • Grip to help unplug the charger easily. • Measurement scale on wire for measurement purpose.

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Fig. 01 - clips to put the wire, avoiding the wire entanglement. Fig. 02 - litted LED shows the mobile is charged. Fig. 03 - streak of light displas the data transfered progress. Fig. 04 - flash memory chip being used in Pen-drives.

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cornob

digital weighing + serving bowl for the retail kirana shops

The form is an inspiration from corn with a cob.

Cornob is a serving bowl for kiranawallas. The main feature of this product is it has a in-built weighing scale enabling shopkeepers to pick the food items as well as know the exact weight at one go while selling the item. With use of cornob the food items can be saved as well as making the selling process fast. kiranawalla doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go to and fro to measure the exact weight.

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RE 3 REcycle.REuse.REduce

bus stops to promote sense of sustainability

RE3 is a concept of building the city bus stops to promote the sense of environmental sustainability among society. The known waste hierarchy is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Recycling and reusing the waste, needs some kind of infrastructure. But biggest of the three is Reduce and it can be achieved only by changing the human behaviour. In fact it can be achieved without almost zero cost. Figure below shows the side view of the bus stop representing the symbol of REduce, REuse, REcycle. Recycle

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RE 3 REcycle.REuse.REduce

bus stops to promote sense of sustainability

The concept of the bus stop is inspired from the derived symbol. As the figure shows the down arrow is named Reuse, represents that the material used to build the platform is being reused or will be reused in future. The up arrow is named recycle, represents that renewable source of energy is being recycled to some other source like electricity being used by digital information screen and CFL tubes. The material used are also recycled or reused. The Reduce remains with humans, and they need to contribute to attain environmental sustainability.

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festivals of india

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Open elective - course work Brief of the course was to make a light fixture or light installation taking into consideration the shadow formed by it.

Flipper - a light fixture which can be used as a wall fixture or table fixture, which can be flipped on eitherside, forming interesting shadow patterns.

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GUI course work - cultural significance of colors

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promotional poster for diabetes awareness invitation cards for cultural fest poster for summer camp event

graphics for softwareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s package

t-shirt design for a online community

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for NID Gandhinagar cultural fest

invitation cards for cultural fest

t-shirt design for NIDG cultural fest

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logo design for the fest

t-shirt design for NIDG cultural fest

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clay modelling

rangoli on the eve of diwali

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winning participation in street play

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zinal patel dob academic

Software & User Interface Design batch 2007-09 NID, Ahmedabad - 380007

home

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