About Me
I'm a Product Designer II working on core browser experiences for Microsoft Edge. I graduated from the MS HCI program at Georgia Tech in 2021. In the past, I've worked with companies such as NASA, Google, and Cleartrip.
I originally started off as a Computer Science major during undergrad, but quickly realized that I was fascinated by the 'Why' behind the code I was writing. This led me to exploring the field of UX, and after a few side projects and freelance work, I fell in love with the art of problem solving.
I like to think of myself as a full-stack product designer who can lead a project from research & design to the prototyping phase to ensure a smooth developer handoff.
What am I like outside of work? I'm glad you asked.
👨🏾🍳 An amateur cook.
The pandemic turned me into an avid cooking enthusiast. As someone who barely cooked anything apart from eggs before COVID-19, I'd like to think I've come a long way by exploring various cuisines and dishes. My favourite and most frequented cuisines are Indian, Italian and Chinese.
Here are three of my recent favourite dishes:
- Indo Chinese Platter: Chilli Paneer/Tofu Gravy, Hakka Noodles, and Spring Rolls
- Veggie Lasagna
- Bibimbap
🗺 Travel junkie.
I've lived in 6 cities across Asia, Europe and the States. I like to think this makes me adapt to new environments with ease, and has taught me to be curious. My favourite trip has to be Bali, Indonesia where I fell in love with the marine life during scuba diving, and ate Nasi Goreng atleast a dozen times.
👨🏾💻 Tinkerer.
I've built a lot of side projects to challenge myself to learn new technologies and frameworks. Most recently, I dove deep into Swift UI and built a few apps that do a small set of things really well. Up next, I want to learn Framer Motion to help improve my motion design skills.
Speaking Experience
Effective collaboration between research and design
I was part of a 6 person panel at Microsoft Design Week, an internal conference that brings together designers from all over Microsoft. We discussed the importance of collaboration between researchers and designers, and how to ensure that the insights from research are translated into design decisions.
How to Prototype Great Products
Gave a talk explaining the importance of prototyping and did a live demo with the audience following along on how to use Figma to quickly prototype your ideas using features such as Smart Animate and Overlays.
Bridging the gap between UX roles
Led a Figma Prototyping Workshop for 20 Google UX folks that focused on enabling designers to create interactive prototypes and improve future rapid prototyping design sprints using Figma and internal plugins.
The HC-Hive: First Day of the Rest of Your Grad Life
Guests Tushar Gupta, Hannah Tam, and Gabriel Britain kick off the first episode by discussing their thoughts on the upcoming semester. From exciting class projects to personal goals (e.g. hitting the gym, picking up hobbies), they join hosts Ngoc and Harshali to talk about transitioning from "work mode" to "school mode", as well as sharing advice for students joining the program.
In The Press
Here, There, and Everywhere
From basements to highrises, folding tables to gaming chairs, familial officemates to curious cat colleagues, six Googlers share their makeshift, out-of-office workstations.
The Augmenta11y Story – Mini TV Series
Millions of Indians struggle with dyslexia, and the creators of Augmenta11y are altering how these people perceive their reality.
Making Reading Accessible to All
A team of 4 engineering students set out to make a product with an aim to change young dyslexic lives.
These 20-year-olds developed an app to help students with dyslexia learn better
Augmenta11y makes use of Augmented Reality (AR) to help children with dyslexia read books using the camera on their phone.
This app developed by 20-year-old Mumbai students makes use of AR to help dyslexic children read better
One of the most common learning disabilities prevalent in today's classrooms is Dyslexia.
Episode 83: Tushar Gupta and Mudita Sisodia chat about Augmenta11y, the app they created that helps people with dyslexia read
The app uses a smartphone’s camera to turn text into a dyslexia friendly format, which is customizable based on each person’s needs.
Flashback to Days Past
Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs.
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The travel and leisure platform Cleartrip has introduced ‘Shortlists’ on mobile and desktop to help users in their international flight booking research.
Cleartrip Introduces ‘Shortlists’ Feature To Help In International Flight Booking Research
Shortlists, is built to help users compare multiple flight itineraries across different onward and return date combinations.