Feb 2016
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Design for Culture (Products that thrive on adapting to culture or productizing a local cultural behavior)Before venturing on a global expansion or copying a new startup, it is probably necessary to identify the cultural differences that may exist between one’s home country and the country of business operation. Where the differences exist, one must decide whether and to what extent the home-country practices may be adapted to the foreign environment. Most of the times the differences are not very ap… more
Technical level: Beginner
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Truly,Madly,Deeply, designing products for your customer’s needsTo introduce product owners,designers,analysts or entrepreneurs to tricks and techniques of designing products/services that are truly useful and desirable.(I typically run this as a 2hr hands on workshop) more
Technical level: Beginner
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Let's build something "unuseless" :)Creativity can’t always be mandated or predicted. It requires experimentation, and often results in totally useless or outrageous ideas that might mean nothing of value. However, innovation requires us to keep moving forward and we eventually find some ideas worth pursuing! In this highly interactive and hands-on workshop, we will play around with one such technique that helps us build something … more
Technical level: Beginner
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Indian Design - Where it comes from & how its different.Indian vs european vs american design & why the difference is important how it shapes design culture more
Technical level: Beginner
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Know Your Users In Emerging MarketsTo understand the nuances of designing for rural India. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Tinker Stories - Design for StartupsTo understand how design works / should work for startups. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Project DEFY : Design Education For YourselfShow how you can learn by yourself, and how schools can exist without a teacher. A philosphical statement on definitions of education. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Behind the scenes: Designing the world of ‘Court’A presentation on the production design of the feature film ‘Court’. more
Technical level: Beginner
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STORIES SPACES MEMORIES“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Ori-Ga-Me : fold - play - discoverlet’s create, sit down (or run around, we aren’t too keen on decorum) let paper do all the talking. let’s touch more than a screen watch how our bodies react to paper and find new expressions! more
Technical level: Beginner
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PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SMARTPHONESFor those who are looking to engage Youth - A presentation on emerging youth tech patterns in India more
Technical level: Beginner
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Access-ability. Designing for Inclusion.Sensitize through a presentation that mainly focuses on ‘Accessibility’ and Barrier free design. Explore adaptive design to suit local contexts.Focus on the importance of retrofitting existing ‘non-inclusive’ designs to make them inclusive, by the way of detailed audits and sensitive solutions.The presentation aims to plant a seed of thought in the minds of design students to help make them sensi… more
Technical level: Intermediate
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My Europe Travel ExperiencesFor people who have travelled or consider travelling to Europe more
Technical level: Beginner
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The future of the Car??to familiarise participants with developments in the auto industry including selfdriving autonomous vehicles under development by Google, Apple and car makers like General Motors, Ford, etc more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Angrezi Signboard Paintersa look into a very peculiar phenomenon that occurs when signboard painters paint signs in both devanagiri and latin scripts. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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A brief history of 'Asks'The power of design is its ability to contextually morph into situations to make meaning out of them. And that is also perhaps its biggest defeat, leading to mental models in our economy on how we can be useful. This talk is about tracing the lineages of the different mental models of design which are the deeper meanings behind the ‘Asks’ of today. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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Rejuvenate our citiesFind practical solutions to some of the difficult questions our cities are facing more
Technical level: Beginner
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Good Morning Design. Good Morning Life! 'Design' each day and make it count.I would like to re- introduce DESIGN as a ‘concept’, as a game changer in our mundane lives and inject a bit of adventure, humour and joie d’vivre in all that we do. more
Technical level: Beginner
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Inside-outRelating a persons visual identity to the branding of thier profession, product,service or simply for the sake of remembering the face. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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'Make the blue more blueeeeee' - Feedback on feedbacksDesigners, at the current moment are both fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. Fortunate, because design is being recognised. Unfortunate, because design is being recognised for wrong reasons. I shall share some of my experiences in design receiving feedback from 3 different product startups, I have worked with before. Extending that, I shall share my thoughts on how a clever feedback and … more
Technical level: Beginner
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Original stained glass (Tiffany-style) in India by Saarus NirhaliTo classify and re-introduce this European art which is restricted only to the old churches built by the British and Portugese. more
Technical level: Intermediate
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