About Me
I'm a Product Designer at Microsoft, where I'm currently focused on designing AI-powered experiences. My journey began in Computer Science, but I quickly became fascinated by the 'Why' behind the code. This curiosity led me to explore UX design, where I discovered my passion for solving complex problems through intuitive interfaces.
While my official title is Product Designer, I see myself as a design-engineer hybrid. I'm passionate about bridging the gap between design and engineering, capable of leading projects from initial research through to development. I'm particularly excited about leveraging AI in my design process and creating new user experiences, using tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot to enhance my workflow.
My educational background includes an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. Throughout my career, I've worked on exciting projects at NASA, Google, and Cleartrip, which have shaped my approach to creating technology that enhances user experiences.
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
🎾 + 🏎️
My interests outside of tech include tennis and Formula 1. Both sports caught my attention through Netflix documentaries, but I've taken tennis beyond just watching. For the past year, I've been learning to play, finding it a great way to stay active and challenge myself. While I enjoy following F1 races, tennis has become a personal hobby that I'm continuously improving at.
👨🏾💻 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.
Press & Interviews
Tips for Designing AI Experiences
Appeared on a podcast to discuss my journey in design and advice for building AI powered products.
Georgia Tech Master's Experience
I sat down with Harnoor, one of India's premier study-abroad youtubers to talk about my experiences studying at Georgia Tech.
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.