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Hi!
I'm Nirmal (nih-r-muh-l), UX/Product Designer with a Computer Science background excelling in Business Design Thinking and Product Psychology.
Industry Project
Preventive Maintenance
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Industry Project
Commercial Auto EV Industry
Industry Project
Search and Rescue
Shopping Experience
End-to-End UX Research
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Balance Watch
Balance Professional Life
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Industry Projects
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's Energy Connect
An IoT-based Energy & ROI predicting
Intelligent Machine Maintenance System (IMMS)
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# Preventive Maintenance
# High-Fid Prototype
# Buisness Model Design
Role : UX Consultant
An app is designed
for C-suite executives
of manufacturing industry
that alerts them about critical downtime through data visualization of -
1.Live machine health 2.Machine energy charts
3.Maintenance schedule
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's Nest Incubator
An I.P. generating incubator business model
for the Commercial Electric Vehicles (EV) industry
# Autonomous Electric Vehicle
# IoT Data Architecture
# Enterprise Market Analysis
# Business Model Design
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Role : UX Consultant
An Architecture called 'Nest Incubator’ to produce Intellectual Properties using IoT data, design consultancy and functional safety analytics for the EV industry.
Full-time Role: UX Designer & Researcher
A Fortune 200 company
I provided in-depth UX expertise for the following products in the discovery, define, design, and user testing phases.
I delivered bi-weekly design iterations as per business demands during my all tenure presiding over a year.
Customer Experience (B2C)
Full-Year Contract
Client: GravityDrive Inc
GravityDrive provides UX research, design, evaluation, and support services to help build a great experience.
Resource Drive : A SAR Resource Management & Carpool Assistance App
Role : Product Designer
An ambitious project of GravityDrive in Search & Rescue (SAR) domain to help SAR volunteers and leaders optimally manage the mission time and personal SAR resources without any hindrance and/or mental stress.
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Registration & Member Card,
Inventory & Discount Stores
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Mission Acceptance
& Resource Checklist
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Carpooling Request
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UXR Projects
Grocery Shopping Experience
Problem framing for grocery shoppers of Kroger
# UX Research in Framing Problems
# Grocery Shopping Experience
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Role : UX Researcher
UX research is carried out to understand the whole shopping process, ongoing thinking, and the problems that arise to the shoppers during grocery shopping.
Single-Use Plastics
How to define the plastics waste domains in shopping?
# UX Research in Framing Problems
# Single-Use Plastics
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Role : UX Researcher
Understand the prevalence of single-use plastics in grocery shopping and acknowledge its alternative efforts among grocery shoppers and grocery store staff.
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UXD Projects
Balance
A.I. smartwatch that balances workdays of professionals
# Balance Personal-Professional Life
# High-Fid Prototype
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Role : UX Designer
The 'Balance' smartwatch is created as a concept product designed for the business professionals constantly on the go between work and home life to intuitively assist them in keeping personal and professional priorities on task.
Caring Jags
Constructive habit builder for COVID-19 pandemic stress
# High-Fid Prototype
# COVID-19 Pandemic
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Role : UX Designer
'Caring Jags' is a concept app that provides innovative features to lift up the morale of the IUPUI community in the COVID-19 pandemic while constantly tracing the hygiene activities of the nearby public places.
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Founder
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Design Coterie Club, IUPUI
I started a UX club to exercise cohesive design thinking activities with HCI graduate cohorts.
Mission
Design Coterie engages to promulgate experience design knowledge, cohesive work experience and design thinking strategies among the experience design community.
I mentored the following Collaborative UX sessions -
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Whiteboarding
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UXR Focus Groups
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30-minute Design Sprint
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UX Brainstorming
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Five Whys
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S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
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Walt Disney Strategy
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Reverse Brainstorming
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Wizard of Oz
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Landscape Mapping
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Empathy Map
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Business Model
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Service Map
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Mental Model
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Roleplay
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6 Thinking Hats
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Design Critique
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Storyboarding
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