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June 2007-June 2009

Post Graduate Diploma in Software and User

Interface Design from National Institute of

Design, Ahmedabad, India

www.nid.edu

June 2001-May 2005

Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and

Control from SRM Engineering College, Anna

University, Chennai, India

www.annauniv.edu

Education

Skills & InterestsExperience

January 2009-June 2009

Diploma project student at Axiom Education

Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India

www.axiomeducation.in

November 2005-M ay2007

Worked as a Software Engineer in Infosys

Technologies Limited, Chennai, India

www.infosys.com

InterestsDesign Research, Interaction design, Systems Design, Participatory

Design & Ethnographic Studies.

Childrens Education & Edutainment

Photography

Travelling

Music, Dance, Dramatics and hand work

Doodling and Sketching

charanya s about me

Design Skills

Concept Generation

Storyboarding and Animation

User Research Methodologies (Contextual Enquiry, Interviews)

Usability Testing

Protot yping (High and Low Fidelity)

User Centric Design methodologies

Information visualisation & Graphics

Technical skills

-Software: Adobe Design Suite, Microsoft Office Suite-Plaforms: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Mac OS X,

-Languages & Programming: Basics of HTML, CSS, JSP,

action script 2.0 and .Net(OOPS concepts)


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Academic work

National Institute of Design

-Educational Graphics for teaching History

-Craft as a tool for Primary Education

-Personal music creation kiosk for musiclovers

-Computer game based physical interactiveplay areas

-Educational device for rural women

Professional work

Axiom Education Pvt. Ltd.

-Interaction Design for web shoppingexperience

Infosys Technologies Ltd.

-Redesigning Power TransportationManagement Systems for Meridian IQ

-Redesigning the Int ranet site for BritishPetroleum

Explorations

-Life is short, an animated movie

-Tears of trash, a f ilm t o create awareness

about waste disposal

-Shapes, Clay Animation

charanya s works


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charanya s professional work

Int

eraction Design for web shopping experience

Project Duration: 5 months (January 2009 - June 2009)Diploma Project

The project is to develop a universal online

digital platform that can be used to distribute

digital as well as physical goods and can be

used as a community market place for sharing

knowledge. The users are provided with

appropriate products for their specific needs.

It was mainly to design the interactions and

create experiencein these product transactions

and create knowledge sharing and collaboration

between users through t hese transactions.

The process was the study of the existing

setup and the strategies, testing t hese

strategies against the competitors, involving

the user and their feedback and finding new

areas of improvement.

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Categorisation of users, sample personas created,and scenarios for the personas


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This project involved multiple sets of users, like

parents, children and educators. Their needs,

behaviours, expectations were studied and

personas, scenarios, story boards and task flows

were created to aid the process.

The deliverables were the information

architecture, in terms product classification

and the features required, the wireframes of

the interface and the interactionsalong with

thethemes. These were shown in the form of

paper prototype and video prototype.

Usabiliy Analysis was done with the help of

the protot ype. Also some visual styles were

suggested.

Int

eraction Design for web shopping experience

Project Duration: 5 months (January 2009 - June 2009)Diploma Project

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Sitemap of the online market place

Wireframes of the online market place


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Infosys Technologies Ltd

(November 2005 - May 2007)

interface design

Redesigning the application Power

Transportation Management Systems

This was for the US based client Meridian

IQ (now renamed as YRC Logistics) As a

memberof the team I was involved in coding

JSPs for the front of the application.

Redesigning the Intranet site for the

UK based client British Petroleum

As a member of the team I was involved in

creating CSS templates for the interface of the

Intranet site. This was a part of the maintenace

for the Intranet site.

Screenshots from British Petroleum Intranet


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charanya s academic work

Educational Graphics for teaching History

Project Duration: 6 weeks (October 2008)

information design

The purpose of the project was to improve the

learning experienceof history through graphically

rich visual aids. The design process of ideation,

user study, exploration, user testing, alternate

solutions and improvising was followed.

A part of the contents of the NCERT History

textbook of class six, was enhanced with the help

of graphical elements. The approach (considering

no change of content) was maintained the same

with a different interaction to enhance the content

and hence increase recollection and recall.

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Schematic Diagram representingthe constraints and the differentinputs

Content Architecture of a part of theNCERT sixth standard history textbook


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The main features included students interaction

(students can write their thoughts)with the

product, cooperative learning (group learning/

team work) and retaining existing pedagogy

(designed for exisitng classrooms).

The deliverable was an interactive graphical flip

chart which depicts the Indian history as a story

told by two characters, an archaeologist and a

historian about their experience.

Educational Graphics for teaching History

Project Duration: 6 weeks (October 2008)

information design

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Diagram showing the usageof the product inside the

classrooms

A part of thewhole interactive

graphical flip chart

Frames of the interactive graphical flip chart


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Craft as a tool for Primary Education

INTERACTIVE MOVIE (team of 3)Project Duration: 1 week (November 2007)

The aim of the project was to understand the

craftsmen, essentially the Potters of Kutch in

Gujarat, India and showcase it through any

medium.

The important aspect was to use the various

tools of user study to know about various

aspects of the craf tsmen, his family and

occupation. Later the collected data was

analysed to come up with the medium and

mode of representation.

The lives of the craftsmen and their family was

portrayed taking the life of three craftsmen

and their philosophy of life and work through

aninteractive movie.

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Interactive movie Pott ers of Kutch. The main frame shows the path of the journey and on click ofthe icon like images, a clip about that pott er of t hat place plays.


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SCENARIO MAPPINGProject Duration: 6 weeks (March 2008)

systems design

The focus of the project was to sensitise young

children of the age group 6 to 8 years old to

Indian heritage crafts and the craftsmen and

also create learning through these crafts (a

different and distinctive approach to learning).

The design process of identif ying the area

where design intervention was required

through user study, idea generation, systems

approach, various other explorations and

alternative solutions and iterations through

user testing was followed.

The learning from the previous project (making

of the interactive movie) was used in this

project. A scenario was built taking a particular

school and the nearby craftsman.

Scenario Design comprising the users and the stakeholders

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The schoolmanagement helps

to form the networkand the monetory

support

The people in the networkare the craftsmen, the

children and the t eachers

The craft smen provide the basicknowledge and the raw material, the

teachers assist the children in learningthrough craft, devising those

mechanisms and sharing them, thechildren learn about the craft.

The children learn subjects throughthe techniques of the craft with the

assistance of teachers


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The scenario had t wo design int erventions, one was

sensitising the children and the other was imparting

the knowledge about the crafts for the teachers

which were the prerequisite for the next step

Learning by Doing in classrooms.

An activity based story book, followed by a simple

multi-player board game for the students, were the

final deliverable of the project.

Board Game- Multi Playergame at the end of thestory book

Pages from the activity basedstory book Adventures ofNandhu

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systems design

BOOK & GAMEProject Duration: 6 weeks (March 2008)



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WEBSITE & ACTIVITYProject Duration: 2 weeks (July 2008)

The web site EDUCRA (education through

craft) acts as a sharing portal between different

schools in the educra network. This was mainly

designed to impart knowledge to the teachers

about crafts and craftsmen.

The design process of understanding users,

identifying needs, formulating solutions

and refining through testing was followed

incorporating the principles of visual design

and minimalist design.

Sharing methods of teaching and learning

through craft s, networking between dif ferent

schools and between the students and the

teachers are the other features of the site.

Activit ies and learning materials for learning

through craft for dif ferent subjects fordif ferent grades are available in the site.

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Interface of the portal Educra

Information Architecturefor the website


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Personal music creation kiosk for music lovers

(team of 2)Project Duration: 2 weeks (August 2007)

A digital entertainment device which was

designed in the form of a kiosk to be installed

in college recreational places and music stores.

The idea was to make music creation more

personalised and take it out of the existing

computer domain (considering music created

using soft ware) and creating a simple user

interface for the novice users. The kiosk allows

the user to create his own piece of music with

contextual guidance and the available presets.

Simulation of the physicalmodel of the music kiosk

Screenshot of the int erface

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The deliverable involved the screen interface

simulated in flash and the a scaled down model of

the physical form with interactions.

In the team of two members, I was involved in

every step from conceptualisation, user study,

identifying their needs, understanding the existing

provisions for music creation and remixing, interface

and physical product design.

Wireframes of the interface

Personal music creation kiosk for music lovers

(team of 2)Project Duration: 2 weeks (August 2007)

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Computer game based physical interactive play areas

Project Duration: 1 week (September 2008)

Conceptualisation and feasibilit y study of

designing computer game based physical

interactive play areasto create physical mobilit y

and learning through social interaction in a

physical space

Target audience were Indian children of the

age group 9 to 12 years old. The various types

of players, the games they play and the

reasons were analysed for the mentioned age

group and concepts were generated keeping

the constraints in mind.

Detailed flow diagram and aconcept sketch of the int eractiveplay area based on computergames


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Educational device for rural women

Project Duration: 2 weeks (August 2008)

A simple educational device for semi li terate

rural Indian women to learn and in turn teach

their school going kids.

Start ing f rom idea generation, user study,

personas, conceptualisation, designing

interactions, the physical form till a

promotional advertisement for the product

were done, thus getting a whole picture of

product development life cycle.

The inspirations for the form and the

interactions were taken from the metaphors

around the users life.

Persona (semi-literate rural Indian woman)

Phtsical Interactions wit h t he product

Physical Forms (Inspirations from hand mirror and cooking t awa) (bottom)


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charanya s explorations

concept generat ion

animation & film

Life is Short

The animation movie was done to show the

mortal nature of our lives, taking the example

of the life of an ant. The animation was done

in f lash.

Screen shots from the animation movie

Watch Life is short :http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=11tdN_2Qolk


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A short film made to create an awareness

about keeping the surroundings clean and

emphasise the use of dust bins. The movie is

shot from the trashs perspective of its life.

Techniques of filmography and stop motion

animation were used in the film.

As a part of the two member group, I wasinvolved in making the story, deciding shot

angles, shooting and audio for the film.

Screen shots from the movieTears of Trash

Tears of Trash

Watch Tears of Trash :http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=iQssOcFrCzc

concept generat ion

animation & film


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This was a short animation f ilm made using

clay as the medium and the technique of stop

motion animation.

This was made as an exercise to teach children

about the basics of shapes.

Shapes, Clay Animation

Watch Shapes :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YuIV_DWH_I

Screen shots from the clay animation, Shapes

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