Retrospective account of the basic challenges we faced while working on developing a long-term strategy. Articulating long-term product strategy, needs an acute focus on building our understanding of where we are today, the forces at play (both internal and external), available choices and, most importantly, our customers’ emerging needs. To…

Design Mentorship to Energy Harvest as part of the Cisco CSR Initiative in partnership with The/Nudge Foundation Sukhmeet Singh, Founder & CEO, Energy Harvest Dr. Robert Berry, Director — Grants & Partnership, Energy Harvest Rakesh Sharma: Sr. Design Strategist, Cisco Bharath G — UI Designer, Cisco As a part of…

Our habits are powerful. Bad ones can hold us back while good ones can propel us forward. But changing our daily actions to create better habits is a lot easier said than done. It doesn’t happen overnight, or with the flip of a mental switch. Rather, it takes time, patience…

Japanese tea ceremony is an excellent analogy to an approach to design which focuses on delight and ingenuity. The essence of the Japanese tea ceremony is being truly aware of our present, which is the key to cherish our unique experiences, even when we are doing the same ritual, repeatedly…

Case Study: Early User Research can help identifying the product direction which is not aligned with the overall goal and save unnecessary cost while developing a product. — Design Strategy or for that matter any strategy at its core is choice of where not to play. It simply delivers focus. It helps the team/organization to concentrate on things which will have the most impact. How was I involved ? — Contribution

New solution targeted at Professional Services for managing the commercial side of the projects. Challenge In the enterprise world most of the time we get to redefine the existing solutions. This project was a great opportunity to create a solution from scratch with a basic requirement…. How to give Project and…

Design Thinking introductory workshop course in 3 Days I think more than a profession, Design is a way of how we approach problems. Therefore I want to spread the awareness about Design in whatever little way possible for me. I am part of a 3 member team which offers an…

Helping Sankara Eye Hospital(SEH) improve their patient experience. Read more details at Design Thinking in Eye Care Objective of this activity This was a voluntary effort as a part of CSR activity when I was with SAP Labs. We had to understand the problems faced by SEH as an organisation and solve them with…

Case Study: Discovery of problem space — CHALLENGE How do we converge in a direction which is best for the users and makes most business sense in the least amount of time and effort? MY CONTRIBUTION Planned the process of how best we can define and execute the new UX direction. Defined the format of the design workshop as described…