Product Designer

CONTACT

+91 9026967775

Kolkata, India

[email protected]

hemashridhavala.com

SKILLS

Skills

COMPETENCIES

EDUCATION

Masters of Design (M.des) 2023

National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

Batchelors of Design (B.des) 2019

National Institute of Fashion Technology, Shillong

Senior Secondary Education (12th) 2016

Air force Golden Jubilee Institute, New Delhi

Secondary Education (10th) 2014

Air force Golden Jubilee Institute, New Delhi

LANGUAGES

Languages

👩🏻‍🌾 ABOUT ME

A Product experience designer. I am passionate about making the lives of people more playful. A great visualiser and experimenter. I am always looking for new mediums to explore, enhancing my design process along the way.

🦾 EXPERIENCE

SplashLearn.com

2022 - Present

🎮 Gamification Project

A user-behaviour centric project in collaboration with The Octalysis Group and Yu Kai Chow. Gamifying the entire motivation layer of the platform by introducing features like Badges, Cards, Shop, Levelling system, system economy balancing and much more

👭 The Companion Project

Designing the voice, user flows, tone and key responsibilities of Splashee the helpful digital companion of SplashLearn. Designed for maximising the accessibility of the platform. Involved in ideating, designing, user-research and user-testing. The project is now live and has reached over 200,000 users worldwide

🕺🏻 Let’s Dance Game

Lead designer in an interactive digital game meant for teaching young children important intrapersonal skills like self assessment, reasoning and self expression. Responsible for managing resources, designing game mechanics, wireframes, making the game design document , overall look and feel and post release data analysis . The project is now live and is the highest replayed game on the platform

National Institute of Design

2020 - 2023

🧸 Project Play

A live project with UNICEF HQ The aim of the project was to develop tools that cater to the social, emotional, cognitive and motor skills of children. Made out of waste packaging boxes used to deliver nutrition-rich food to malnourished children all over the world. The project is now live and has reached 7.3 million children in 2022

💊 Urban Health Index

A systems-thinking approach to understanding the current urban health scenario. And tackling the wicked problem with insights and playfulness. Looking into how modern lifestyle choices are toppling Maslow’s pyramid of needs

🚺 Women on India

Winner of the 2022 Toycathon organised by the Govt. of India. This project features dolls of Kalpana Chavala, Amrita Shergill and other empowered Indian women made out of wood with integrated with sound modules, made to motivate young girls to get inspired from their journey

🍂 Pneuma

A speculative design project designed to help humans better understand and express their emotions with plant projections augmented reality and vulnerable robot interactions. Pneuma enhances the experience of understanding the depths of human emotions with technology from the future

🔫 Zapinator

A playful digital toy that helps children overcome their fear of darkness. Made using the Arduino uno, playfully using electro-magnetic waves to make monsters your best friends

🎎 Loka Doll

A gender-neutral doll, addressing the gender-ization of toys. This project is a step towards a gender neutral future where children would be free to express themselves with the help of a more relatable doll and up-to-date accessories

🪑 16Degree

Understanding the reasons why the target audience experiences burnout in highly anxious situations and finding solutions to tackle it with rhythmic movement. A gamified chair that helps deal with burnout through rhythmic movement simulations

Self Initiated

2020 - 2021 ****

🎴 Bolmagazine.com

I am one of the two co-founders of this feminist movement. The project aims at addressing the negligible role of womxn in media and providing a safe platform for non-fictional expression of thought for womxn and members of the LGBTQI+ community