I believe in love. Great love. To build anything, this to me is the fundamental asset. It allows one to take great care of every aspect of the product they are making. It made me develop a sense of empathy and attention to detail towards the world we live in. As a designer, It gives me immense satisfaction when my product is helping the real world in some manner.
Do small things with GREAT love - MOTHER TERESA
After JEE, I pursued the Bachelor of Design program at IIT Guwahati with a focus on Interaction Design. Known by different acronyms such as UX, HCI, IxD, UI, UCD, etc., design aids a user in making sense of the world by humanizing technology. Here, I was introduced to several disciples of design and was trained in design methods, usability and visual design. After my bachelor's program, I worked as a UX designer for 3 years, shaping user interfaces of an e-commerce product and a B2B CRM application.
With an interest in understanding the building blocks of experience and human cognition, I went on to pursue a master's in Cognitive Science. For my thesis, I have explored a human error, a cognitive phenomenon known as goal slippage and evaluated its extent through an in-the-lab experiment. After that, I worked remotely as a UX Researcher for an AI chatbot.
Seeking research opportunities to design for human wellbeing, I returned to academia. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD at Lancaster University, wherein I am exploring personal informatics and, specifically, goal technologies. I have been a teaching assistant for the HCI courses at Lancaster.
I follow cricket, movies and politics, typical of an Indian. Lately I picked up running.
2025 - 3 co-design workshops (N=6)
2024 - 14 co-design workshops (N=20), 20+ student workshops (N=160)
2023 - 20 expert interviews, 30+ student workshops (N=160)
2022 - 12 user interviews, surveys (N>200)
2021 - an experiment (N=40), 3 user interviews
2020 - In-depth user surveys (N>30)
2019 - surveys (N>30K including NPS surveys)
2018 - surveys (N>20K including NPS surveys)
2017 - usability testing (N=6)
2015 - 5 user interview, 1 expert interview
2014 - 2 ethnographic interviews