Journey

All that's happened so far

Things I've done at work

  • I dabbled in graphic and web design, before moving to interface design for up-and-coming digital products

  • A year later, I helped start a design-ops introspection with my team at TIFIN

  • I set up workflows / processes for file organisation

  • And then, I set up an org-wide design system

  • And I wrote documentation for that 👆

  • I oversaw the system’s compliance on the design front

  • And reviewed the information design across a flagship product

  • I helped SundayGrids explain what they do

  • I helped create a data installation at Noora Health

  • About a year later, I created a proof-of-concept for the UIDAI’s m-Aadhaar app redesign. (Ask me about this one 👀)

Things I did at grad school

  • Went back to the basics of visual grammar. And then added data grammar to that learning

  • Met my data-vis heroes

  • Managed a placement drive

  • Created a timeline-turned-teaching-tool on cybernetics and design

  • Exhibited my work at the Science Gallery in Bengaluru

Things I've learned

  • How UI directly influences the trust in a product

  • How to build buy-in for design systems. And how it might fail

  • Why documentation is a must for rich async work

  • How teams deal with the challenge (or absence) of user data and research

  • Show what you say, say what you show

  • Plain language is unbeatable

  • Details, only on demand, please

  • Pick the problems you know best. Or speak to the ones who do