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. 

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