1. Rishika Jain
Gender: Female DOB: 18 February 1992
B.Des (Design)
Final year student,
Department of Design,
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
rishika@iitg.ernet.in
rishika.j92@gmail.com
+91-8011027939
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Educational Qualifications:
Cumulative Performance Index: 8.06/10
Semester Performance Index (6th semester): 8.50/10
12th (CBSE): 84.6%
10th (CBSE): 96.0%
Areas of Interest:
Technology, Design and Education; Interaction Design, Human Centered Design, Design Research
Work Experiences:
Research Intern : The Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dor Abrahamson, Embodied Design Research Laboratory
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of qualitative data, Interaction Design, Usability testing, Application Design, Gamification, Prototyping (HTML/CSS)
Brief: To create better opportunities for students to develop an understanding of the meaning of algebra by
construction of subjective transparency
Industrial intern: mPath, a San Francisco based design consultancy start-up
Project Mentor: Mr. Elliott Hedman (buildempathy.com), Founder
Duration: J
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Project Domains: Design research, Emotion research, Qualitative Research, Product and Experience Design,
Usability Testing
Brief: Re-designing the vacuum cleaner and vacuum cleaner store purchasing experience for a leading hardware
store in the US.
Industrial intern: Experiential Design Lab, a Delhi based Interaction Design consultancy
Project Mentors: Mr. Anurag Sehgal (Founder Director and Principal Interaction Designer) and Mr. Puneet Monga
(Interactive Media Designer)
Duration: M
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Project Domains: User Research, UX Design Methods, Experience Design, Interaction Design
Brief: Experience Design for an upcoming restaurant in Delhi.
Projects:
Providing access to proper sanitation to urban slum dwellers in India - Interdisciplinary Project A
Present)
Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Avinash Shinde, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Keywords: Re-designing the toilet, Sanitation, Product Design, System-level design, Human centered design
Brief: Design a toilet for urban slum dwellers in India, that is accessible, cheap to use, culturally appropriate,
ecovery innovations.
Block Based Coding Platform for Digital Fabrication to Encourage Algorithmic Thinking Final Year Project
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Supervisor: Prof. (Dr.) Pradeep Yamiyavar, IIT Guwahati.
Keywords: Digital Fabrication, Design for Education, Software Design, Spatial Skills, Constructionism
Brief: Developing a block language based system for digital fabrication to give kids an easy to explore platform to
think of objects in an algorithmic manner and create actual physical objects.

2. Curiosity - A Mobile Application for college campuses - Design Project II A
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Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Keyur Sorathia, Head, Embedded Interaction Lab, IIT Guwahati
Keywords: Interaction Design, Interface Design, User-centered design,Collaborative learning, Real and virtual
communities
Brief: Proposed a mobile platform to enable discussions about quasi-academic interests among people on campus
and aid online and offline information exchange by facilitating meet-ups.
Skills:
Design Skills: User-centered design, User research methods (Contextual Inquiry, Long interviews, Surveys and
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Competitive analysis, Storyboarding, Wireframes)
Information architecture and Information design, Usability testing, Rapid Prototyping, Prototyping with arduino,
Qualitative methods (short term observation, long interviews, narrative inquiry, ethnomethodology, grounded
theory, phenomenology), Product Design (analysis and detailing), Visual Design, Sketching, Content Writing
Software: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AfterEffects; Solid Edge, Google SketchUp, Keynote
Programming: C, HTML, Processing
Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Windows
Achievements and Co-curricular:
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2011 International CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - O
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City Idea
Contest to develop solutions to problems facing megacities of the future. Attended the Rethink City Innovation
Camp at Denmark Technical University.
Sports : Member, IIT Guwahati Tennis team, stood fourth in the 47th Inter IIT Sports Meet.
Took part in the 24 hour OzCHI challenge in 2012 and 2103. It involved coming up with a solution for a given
challenge. A blog had to be maintained about the process followed and a video and short paper had to be
submitted at the end of the 24 hours.
Took part in the MIT Design Innovation workshop held in Bangalore where I was a part of the Tangible Media
Track. Created a working prototype of Surreal. It enables any surface to accept gesture inputs (like taps) via
(contact) microphones.
Debating : Member, IIT Gu
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IBM Technical Web Contest for smarter services (2011) : Idea selected in top 100 nation-wide.
The Climate Project India slideshow competition (2008) :Video selected in the top 14 entries nation-wide.
Awarded the prestigious Shri Gurudev Gupta Scholarship for Academic Excellence by Delhi Public School, Bhopal.
(2008)
Volunteer teacher at the Zero Illiteracy Zone (ZIZ) at the Kendriya Vidayalaya School at IIT Guwahati. Also
involved in thinking of ways of making instruction and student retention better.
Positions of Responsibility:
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Core Team Member, Industrial Conclave
Festival of IIT Guwahati.
Other interests:
Teaching, Writing prose, Debating, Traveling.
Languages:
English, Hindi
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