By Atharva, Amy & Xiran HYPOTHESIS: In fall 2018 took a class on the Design thinking and research methodologies. We discussed different methodologies such as lego serious play, 5 whys? & googles design sprint. …

Creating music by movements(p5.js + poseNet) — As part of my course Introduction to Computational media class at ITP I had to build a playful application using Javascript(probably using the p5.js library). I built my final project using a combination of p5.js javascript library and ml5’s pose estimator library(poseNet). EXPLORING IDEAS As part of the 14 week class I…

DEFINING OBJECTIVE & SCOPE I worked as a product designer at MagicX where we built chatbots for e-commerce applications. We had our own mobile app, but we didn’t build any frameworks of our own. We curated different partners & integrated their services into our app. Having multiple partners meant having multiple payment gateways. Adding…

I am a UX designer at MagicX & have been designing bots for the past 10 months. One of my very first designs at MagicX was to design the payments flow. The payments flow has been evolving over the past 10 months. …

Facebook recently launched their bot platform where people can chat with bots. The platform offers people to read and discover news, get weather updates and even play chess inside their messenger application. A single Facebook conversation with a bot will let you accomplish a single task which has no relation…

image source unsplash.com Last month I completed a year as a UX designer at Cubeit.io, a startup in Bangalore. My journey began as a young Mechanical Engineering Graduate who knew bits and pieces of Photoshop and had designed poster and flyers for college events. With high hopes from the blissful…

With hundreds of music services out there is anyone thinking of the users? Music is (without a shadow of a doubt) an integral part of our daily lives. Be it humming to “I will walk 500 miles” on a roadtrip, headbanging to “Back in Black” at an AC/DC concert or…

image source: unsplash Originally written for cubeit.io In the late 2000s, almost 15 years after Hotmail changed the way we communicate, people started to finally understand that the tons of email they received was hampering their productivity. Enter the concept of Inbox Zero, and a clique of people started trying…