Product designer · UX research
I find out who a place, product or screen leaves out, then design them back in.
Now
Second-year M.Des, Universal Design · NID Bengaluru
Before
Design intern · Railway Design Centre × NID
Next
Open to a graduation-project internship in accessibility-led research and design
On record
Won, published, built with. Pick one to open the project behind it.
Selected work
Five projects. Every card says what I did, how long it took, and how I know it worked.
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Winner · Yellow Slice
Product design · Personal · 2025
Lane
People were making whole duplicate groups just to have one conversation.
Outcome: a time-boxed sub-chat inside WhatsApp. Testing showed 8 of 10 people missed the entry point, so I moved it.
My role
Solo: idea, screens, decision log
Team
1, plus help on the prototype
Time
6 weeks
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Abstract accepted · HWWE 2026
Human factors · Studio · 2026
PICU Infusion Pumps
Nurses use a fraction of the pump and learn the rest from each other. The interface wasn't doing the safety work.
Outcome: a keypad and task flow rebuilt around nurses' mental models, reviewed by a paediatrician.
My role
Observation, synthesis, ideation
Team
2
Time
3 weeks
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Field research
Service design · Railway Design Centre × NID · 2025
Find Easy
Both hands are already full before the station starts. So the phone was never the answer.
Outcome: a hands-free, offline audio guidance service for blind travellers at Indian railway stations.
My role
Solo, end to end
Team
1
Time
4 weeks
Playtested
Craft · Game design · Salesforce challenge
Kin Katha
Everyone designs for the craft community. The person losing the most was the storyteller.
Outcome: a family storytelling game built on the kavad's own mechanic, playable with or without the app.
My role
Craft research, UX, playtests
Team
2
Time
4 weeks
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Field audit
Universal design · Studio · 2025
Space Audit
Three entrances and open sightlines, but a 36 cm seat where the standard says 45. Access existed. Use didn't.
Outcome: an audit against HGSUA 2021 that ends in fixes drawn straight onto the site photos.
My role
Standards, lux mapping, fixes
Team
3
Time
3 weeks
Sprints
Short runs, two days to six weeks. Things I made, filmed, built and played.
Photo
Made by hand
Sankheda craft · 2 weeks
Mandrikā
Colour gradation and gold border thickness tell you the stacking order, so the ashtray explains its own assembly.
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Built
Bamboo + steel · 5 weeks · Pair
Michael
Hand-bent bamboo instead of the easier straight-joinery route. A full-scale chair people actually sit in.
Film still
Film
Wheelchair · 2 days
Bodystorming
Campus to Peenya metro and back in a wheelchair. A simulation, not research with wheelchair users. The film was shown at NID's convocation.
Screens
Playable
Board game · 1 week
Neela Saal
My own year as a solo resource game, balanced by simulating thousands of bot-played rounds.
Screens
Hackathon
FigBuild 2026 · 2 days · Pair
Grounded
Track how much of your thinking you hand to AI, not what you wrote. Built in two days, with the research gaps named.
Photo
Concept
Elderly bathing · 6 weeks
Aarohan
Keep the bucket-and-mug ritual, remove the bending. Not yet tested with users, which is the next step.
Used daily
Everywhere I go, I notice who a thing won't work for. So here is my own stuff, audited. Pick anything.
Pick an object. Each one gets the same three questions: who it works for, who it fails, and what I'd change.
Hard deadlines, soft pressure.
Annotated by me · Universal Design, NID Bengaluru
ishaanchoudhary30@gmail.com