About

User Experience & Interaction Designer with 3 years of professional & 6 years of academic background in learning, practicing, & advocating design thinking to problem solving.
Skills
- User Experience Design
- Information architecture
- User Interface & Interaction Design
- Innovation, exploration & conceptualization
- Prototyping & Usability testing
Experience
Currently, I am a UI/UX designer at NVIDIA working on applications for gamers and professional graphics users. I own the user experience for various NVIDIA products including SLI, PhysX, 3D Vision Surround Gaming, Installer, Optimus etc. Involved in full product-life-cycle with agile development, collaborating with engineering, marketing and user-research teams to envision, iterate, prioritize and deliver features.
I graduated with Masters in Human-Computer-Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, studying courses form school of Interactive Computing; Literature, Communication and Culture (LCC); and Psychology. While at Tech I worked as a web designer for Office of Provost and Graduate Research Assistant for Collage of Computing working for a project funded by Alcatel-Lucent.
I did my Bachelors in Communication Design from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, exploring and learning interaction design, visual design, animation and industrial design. Learning fundamentals of Psychology and Computer Science.
I did research internship at Computer Lab, University of Cambridge, UK. Designed graphics and UI for research project on tangible interaction for facilitating team collaboration. Developed color-mapping for Dasher, a novel text entry UI that uses continuous pointing gesture in a zooming interface.
Professional & Community Involvement
- President of IIT Guwahati Alumni Association, Bay Area Chapter since April 2010
- Volunteer in NVIDIA Project Inspire to transform community assets such as public school in Silicon Valley
- Member of the organizing team for annual Pan IIT Research Summit in Bay Area for 2010 and 2011
- Member of the organizing team for the Symposium on Computation+Journalism at GaTech, 2008
- Organized programs of "Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music & Culture Amongst Youth" (SPIC MACAY)
- Led the design team for Alcheringa-2006, a 3-day long, multi-event, annual, cultural festival in North-East India
- Raised awareness on hygiene and pollution in rural areas of Rajasthan (India) as National Social Service volunteer
- Technology enthusiast, avid runner, finished a marathon, like hiking and traveling