WHO ME

Didn't believe in love at first sight until I learnt about product design. Engaged with it forever now. Bachelors in Architecture helped me to learn the foundation of designing for the people and world, and taught me with the skills of "how to design for people, for their needs and keeping emotional attachment in mind, while working under tons of constraints such as structure, budget, services, etc". Basically it's like bringing the craft of designing for physical space to digital one. Fun fact: my thesis project was designing a society on Mars.

SAY HI

RESUME

WHO ME

Didn't believe in love at first sight until I learnt about product design. Engaged with it forever now. Bachelors in Architecture helped me to learn the foundation of designing for the people and world, and taught me with the skills of "how to design for people, for their needs and keeping emotional attachment in mind, while working under tons of constraints such as structure, budget, services, etc". Basically it's like bringing the craft of designing for physical space to digital one. Fun fact: my thesis project was designing a society on Mars.

SAY HI

RESUME

LIKEY

TRAVELLING

Not sure when I developed this habit, but travelling gives me just a different type of joy. Going to different places, learning about their culture, observing buildings, fashion sense, tradition, it's all vey fascinating, and I'm in love with each bit of it. Recently tried some solo trip, and just realising there so many things to learn apart from just pushing pixels!

MEETING PEOPLE

Being someone who keeps on shifting every few year, meeting new people was very normal for me, until I started focusing on the how this whole mechanism works. It's just just that you are talking to new folks, you are learning about perspectives you've never thought of, find people who you can really vibe with. Finding your group for different situations. It's fun.

NEW EXPERIENCES

Scuba diving, sky diving, 25km cliff trek, digital fashion design, DJing, traditional cuisines, playing flute, wildlife photography and so much more. Trying new things, learning about them and top artists from that category. When I started escaping my comfort zone, I started to understand the world better. Little nuances, that were skipped.

SURPRISING MY TASTE BUDS

Not sure if I should call myself a foodie, but I love to try new cuisines. New flavours, from different places, communities, how flavours work in sync, how it felts, the texture, alright now I might be sounding like a masterchef judge. If you've about something interesting, do let me know, would love to try it out!

SERIES AND MOVIES

Movies had such a big impact on me while growing up, It shaped thoughts, ideas, how I do things. Lately I've been very selective with the movies I watch, some of my favourites from 2022-23 has been: The platform, The menu, The puss in boots pt2 and Dune. If this sounds like your taste, feel free to send me more suggestions!

GAMING

I had a PC at my home since I was 4yo. I've played some of the games which my circle haven't heard of. MSDOS games, my dad use to be a gamer! I missed my change of going professional in this, only if someone was there to educate me about this profession. Either way, it was my dad, reason why I felt in love with games, from the childhood itself.

Prefer multiplayer games, and like to lead them :)

PSN is himmi0007, steam: oohimmioo, let's play!

SKETCHING

Here's a cute little story. When I was in LKG, one of our teachers drew a face on the board and asked us all to copy that in our books, mine turned out to be the most unique, and she laughed. I'm not sure if it was in a good way or not, but took it to my heart and started practising sketching every day since. Won a ton of competitions and got a few 1st ranks all over India (one of them was a rangoli competition). Sketching feels like something which I really enjoy apart from the things mentioned above, but this one is really close to my heart. Planning to get a tattoo that I'll design myself :)

EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE

Senior Product Designer @ IDS

Oct 2022 - Present

Handling a team of 4 designers to work on an in-house product.

Working with multiple PMs and stakeholders to ship various client projects ranging from community, event management, web3, marketing etc.

Learnt how to enable team mates to give their best.

Team lead

User research

User testing

Visual design

Senior Product Designer

Oct 2022 - Present

Handling a team of 4 designers to work on an in-house product. Working with multiple PMs and stakeholders to ship various client projects ranging from community, event management, web3, marketing etc. Learnt how to enable team mates to give their best.

Team lead

User research

User testing

Visual design

Product Design Intern

Month 2023 - Month 2023

Designing compleax learning management system involving various stakeholders. Creating a platforms which is ready to integrate upcoming verticals easily. Learnt how to make good tradeoffs.

System design

Stakeholder management

Product Design Intern

Month 2023 - Month 2023

Building community management platform from scratch as a solo designer. Handling end to end product, because I was obsessed with the whole idea. Learnt: how to handle bad ideas from upper management.

User research

Interface design

Prototyping

User testing

Product Designer

Month 2023 - Month 2023

Working with bunch of talented folks to create a creator economy platform for Gen-z, allowing users to invest in their favourite creators and get returns based on their performance. Learnt: There are some really interesting product which doesn't exists yet, but it's hard to find PMF for those.

Side project

Interface design

Visual design

Product design intern

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Invact

Feb 2022 - May 2022

Designing compleax learning management system involving various stakeholders. Creating a platforms which is ready to integrate upcoming verticals easily. Learnt how to make good tradeoffs.

System design

Stakeholder management

Product design intern

@

Avalon scenes

Dec 2020 - Sep 2021

Building community management platform from scratch as a solo designer. Handling end to end product, because I was obsessed with the whole idea. Learnt: how to handle bad ideas from upper management.

User testing

Prototyping

Interface design

User research

Product designer

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Morph

Month 2023 - Month 2023

Working with bunch of talented folks to create a creator economy platform for Gen-z, allowing users to invest in their favourite creators and get returns based on their performance. Learnt: There are some really interesting product which doesn't exists yet, but it's hard to find PMF for those.

Side project

Interface design

Visual design

Felt so grateful while working on this portfolio,

for all the great projects I was able to work on and the awesome people I've met.

World has been nice to me, will try my best to give it back as well.

If you are reading this, sending a lot of good wishes your way.

Here, take a cookie 🍪


Have any interesting ideas you want to talk about?

feel free to dm me, would love to chat

FIN