Ishaan Choudhary

Product designer · UX research

I design for the person the brief forgot.

Every product quietly leaves someone out. I go find them, prove it with research, and design until it works for them too.

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Home: Jodhpur → Mumbai → Bengaluru
Path: Studied commerce. Now doing design at NID Bengaluru.
Interned: Railway Design Centre × NID · 2nd semester
Good at: Field researchUsability testingHuman factorsService designFigmaMaking with wood and bamboo
Also good at: Hard deadlines with soft pressure

How I got hereGrew up in Jodhpur, studied commerce in Mumbai, and somewhere along the way realised I'd rather fix things than count them. Now I'm doing design at NID Bengaluru.

On record

Won, published, built with. Pick one to open the project behind it.

WonOpen Lane

Abstract acceptedOpen PICU study Railway Design Centre× NIDCollaboratedOpen Find Easy

StudyingOpen NID

Selected work

Four projects. The first two are the ones I'd open first. The other two, I'd happily talk about for twenty minutes.

Winner · Yellow Slice

LaneProduct design · 6 weeks

People were making whole duplicate groups just to have one side conversation. Lane keeps it inside WhatsApp.

The PICU infusion pump study, opening page

Abstract accepted · HWWE 2026

PICU infusion pumpsHuman factors · 3 weeks

Nurses use a fraction of the pump and learn the rest from each other. I redesigned it around how they already work.

Field research

Find EasyService design · 4 weeks

Blind travellers have both hands full before the station even starts. So the phone was never the answer.

Kin Katha game board, painted in the kavad style

Playtested

Kin KathaCraft · game design · 4 weeks

Everyone designs for the craft community. The storyteller was the one losing the most.

Sprints

Short runs, two days to six weeks. Things I made, filmed, built and played.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Field audit

HGSUA 2021 · 3 weeks · Trio

Space Audit

Open sightlines, three entrances, and a 36 cm seat where the standard says 45. Access existed. Use didn't.

Used daily

Everywhere I go, I notice who a thing won't work for. So here is my own stuff, audited. Pick anything.

Three of these make a sound. Each one also says what it is in text.

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