neha saraswat
post graduate Product designer from National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, India BArch degree from Engineering College Raipur. Currently working at Tech Mahindra Ltd as Experience Designer.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.growinginme.blogspot.com |
| Industries: | Entertainment, Financial, Health, Information Technology, Lifestyle, Retail |
| Skills: | Architecture, Product design |
| Next step: | to start a design service studio in future |
| Location: | Mumbai |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Trading services |
| Tags: | architect, designer, industrial designer, product designer |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Tech Mahindra Ltd, Mum-Pune |
| Position: | Experience Designer |
| Time period: | November 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Working with Tech Mahindra Ltd at Mum-Pune as Experience Designer, presently working in using web analytics for better user experience, finding methods to quantify user experience as research and service projects and working on user experience design of various COTS based applications |
| Employer: | Fuego Furniture Pvt Ltd, Bangalore |
| Position: | product designer |
| Time period: | June 2006 - October 2007 |
| Description: | Worked with Fuego Furniture Pvt Ltd at Bangalore, worked on various workstation design, Fuego's branding and various component design. Worked for the production facilities in house and with vendors all over the world. Worked with wide range of materials and processes ranging from fabric to metal and wood. |
| Employer: | Sri Design, Hyderabad |
| Position: | product designer |
| Time period: | December 2005 - May 2006 |
| Description: | Worked with Sri Design at Hyderabad, involved in Product Design, environmental design and architectural planning (project clients Feather light furniture, Dukes confectionary, Hospice foundation of India) |
| Employer: | Karnataka State Road transport Corporation (diploma project) |
| Position: | product designer |
| Time period: | January 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Diploma Project: design and styling of express bus for KSRTC
The project aimed at giving a new experience of travel to most loyal user group of Karanataka state road transport corporation. This project was not only to style the express bus known as Karnataka Sarige but also to find newer ways of door openings and air ventilation. It involved a deeper understanding of formal and usability issues. Floor Cleaning Device (Simple Product Design): In this project the emphasis was on the Indian way of cleaning the floor and also how we hold the cloth and move in a particular manner while cleaning the floor. Material: thermoform plastics are material for the product as The device remains in contact with water while in use. The only metal component is twisted wire stainless steel wire handle. Processes: vacuum forming has been employed as process. Interface of Handy-Camcorder (Display and Control) The project revolved around the problem a new user faces while going through the interface of the camcorder. For it a high 8 camcorder was taken and usability problems of the new users has been identified by various user testing. At the end the control panels were redesigned and repositioned on the hard interface while soft interface controls are left untouched. The emphasis while redesigning the interface was on the natural eye and had movement of a new user. Concrete Mixer (Technically Complex Project): This project caters to a very unique problem area in tools of construction. It was found during the preliminary survey for design opportunity that small contractors buy small concrete mixers and hire big concrete mixers they take these small concrete mixers to different floor heights to mix for columns although with difficulties. This creates problem as regular mixers are not made for taking and shifting the way user shift them. This particular behavior of user also provides design opportunity that I tried to address during this project. Panipoori Thela: System Design The project four aimed at gaining the understanding of system behavior through studies and surveys and identification of design intervention areas in existing system. In the later part of the project a solution in the form of product was required. I designed a panipoori thela keeping in mind the seasonal occupational shifts and switch overs as well as the system dynamics in mind. A unique poori dispensing unit which based on the fact that poories tecilate and untouched by hand pani container are sailent features of this thela. Industrial training: Understanding and application of work culture of an industry in a product design project was the aim of this two months industrial training. My job was to redefine the storage units on bicycles for teenagers as I did my training at TI Cycles of India, Chennai. |
| Employer: | TI Cycles of India |
| Position: | Product Designer |
| Time period: | April 2004 - June 2004 |
| Description: | designed various storage devices for bikes. |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | "framework for quantification of user experience" |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Hockey player at right half position. Participated in various state and district level tournaments as team member. (1993 - 1995)
Brown belt holder in karate. Participated and won team kata event (1994) |
| Hobbies: | Helped state government of Chhattisgarh in documentation of Raipur City.
Designed two city squares for Raipur Municipal Corporation through a competition. |
| Clubs: | Member of production crew of NID drama club KHEL. |
| Awards: | Best research paper award at CAUE08 Pune India.
Best thesis award for architecture theses "designing with archetype-city center at Indore" for the year 2001-02 |
