This web visualization uses the metaphor of a wall to visualize the level of travel restrictions imposed to a particular country in the ‘Equal’ opportunity world. What I used a dataset to visualize this “wall” that someone could see when looking at the world from her country. This tool should…

It has been almost an year. I have been out of IDC and working/studying here in Madrid, Spain. As I continue to explore design, I often read books that I feel could answer many questions I had back in those days. I hope students still have a lot of questions…

MissingMenu is a project that generates possible combinations of food dishes from a learned menu. It does that by converting a menu to a linguistic model and then computationally generating new food dishes using Probabilistic Context-free grammar (PCFG). In other words, the menu is interpreted as a language and a…

I recently moved to Madrid for an internship. In Madrid, English is not the best language to go around. …

This post presents my reflections on the design education I received at IDC. The views presented here are mine. TL;DR, — There is no TL,DR in Design. After my graduation in Electrical Engineering and partly in Electronics (from CEDT), I had joined Tata Motors, RnD at Pune. My role was…

This post presents my final Master’s project — An exertoy that helps kinds affected by cerebral palsy perform finger pinching action while learning basic concepts like shapes and colors. Although this project involved a lot of research, I have observed my friends talk a lot about my posts being very…

This installation, presented at National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, was a part of the “Nature Embedded” exhibition. The exhibition was inaugurated by Paola Antonelli . “To develop an understanding one has to look at things from other’s perspectives”. Through the means of this exhibit we tried to recreate an…

This post describes the concept, process, insights and extensions of a geovisualization project done as a part of Interactive Data Viz course at IDC. In the end, I had this 3D visualization. Concept(s) The concept was to visualize the trains that originate from every station on the Indian Railways network. This…

Information seems to have affected the pace of human evolution. Early humans could remember more information than the modern man. We today live in a world where information is ubiquitous and externalized. With ambient connectivity, this seems to have lead to a reduced information storage in biological memory. Hence, information…