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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Blockchain technology is basically a way to maintain records in public using cryptography and open source algorithms. How that happens is unclear to me, I don’t fully understand the concept of blocks very well and how cryptography plays a role in all this. I also don’t understand what exactly are…