Shivanku

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Immersive Listening in VR

Soundscape v1

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September 13, 2017
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So as first assignment for the class Immersive listening in VR was to create a soundscape, which meant tell a story or create an experience with sound. More than the story though, the aim of the assignment was to learn how to create a sense of space in stereo. Which…

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Summer Internship

Making an action for Google Assistant

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July 23, 2017
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Google assistant is one of the most powerful platform out there. Google’s enormous scale and their prowess in machine learning gives google assistant a fair shot at becoming the next iTunes. As designers and developers we have to think about its impact on user behavior. There are several implications that…

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UNICEF

Mockups for note taking product

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May 3, 2017
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So the idea of creating an automated voice to text note taking app is not really revolutionary. Saying its AI based just makes it more cliched. The difference that we can make is by making a good product. With this spirit I came up with a first draft of the…

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UNICEF

Text analysis for note taking app

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May 1, 2017
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So for UNICEF class we decided to make a voice-text note taking app. The uses of such an app are self-evident but our inspiration in particular was the researchers who work for non-profits and do a lot of field interviews. Their workflow would be vastly improved with an app that…

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Always On Always Connected, Nature of code-Intelligence

Depersonalize / Localize

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May 1, 2017
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Objective: To demonstrate a new way of digital content consumption. The idea is to use people’s personal data to expose them to newer, “out of bubble” content, rather than serving personalized content. The approach is based on k-nearest neighbors classification algorithm. A user would get content based on the preferences…

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UNICEF

Final project research, Doing Good

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March 29, 2017
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So in Doing Good is Good Business, which is a class at ITP in collaboration with UNICEF, I am part of a team that is looking at the domain of finance and is trying to come up with a “provocation” for the industry. I guess what that means is that…

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Data and Digital Mapping

Understanding India in one map

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March 20, 2017
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The aim of this project is to visualize all the villages and cities in India in one map. Here is the data that inspired this project:   There are 245mn families in India, out of which 180mn live in villages source This figure is from the latest census released by the government…

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UNICEF

Research on digital payments outside banking systems

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March 8, 2017
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Access to digital currency is one of the most fundamental need in today’s world. It leads to all sorts of freedoms that we take for granted such as freely traveling anywhere, transacting with organizations across the world etc. Most of us have access to digital currencies through our banks but banks…

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Twitter Bot Workshop

TwitterBotWorkshop, final project

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March 6, 2017
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Over the period of this course I have become very cynical of the ability of Twitter Bots to create change. I feel most bots end up becoming an art piece more than anything else, which is good but not always the ideal outcome. So for the finals I created a…

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Always On Always Connected

Human: Project for Always On Always Connected

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February 27, 2017
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Human is an app that makes it easier for people to become video activists. Over the last decade there has been a huge increase in the number of videos where people have documented a crime or an injustice happening in public. This is a direct result of proliferation of a…

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Categories

  • Always On Always Connected
  • Data and Digital Mapping
  • Hacking political rhetoric
  • Immersive Listening in VR
  • Introduction to Computational Media
  • Nature of code-Intelligence
  • Physical Computing
  • Reflections
  • Summer Internship
  • Twitter Bot Workshop
  • UNICEF
  • Visual Language
  • Web Development

Recent Posts

  • Soundscape v1
  • Making an action for Google Assistant
  • Mockups for note taking product
  • Text analysis for note taking app
  • Depersonalize / Localize

About Me

Over four years in the design industry with experience in working on consumer-facing as well as enterprise applications. Extensive experience in designing modular interfaces across a wide range of industries & technologies.

Primarily responsible for product planning, user research, interaction design, prototyping & deployment - with a focus on delivering a captivating user experience that help businesses achieve their targeted goals.

Learning creative coding and product prototyping at ITP.

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