🙋🏻♀️ Hi! I'm Apurva, a Product Designer currently at the Digital Health Lab @ Samsung Research America - building, incubating, and launching consumer-oriented health product concepts
Over the years, I’ve designed experiences across multiple domains - entertainment, enterprise, telecom and have worked in different environments- from early-stage start-ups, a design firm, and most recently, DHL - A
When not designing, you can usually catch me finding the next thing to craft, picking up a good book to read, going on spontaneous food adventures, and documenting everything. My friends call me the ' documenter' because I notice and get excited about the smallest things in life. This obsession with simple things carries into my work as well. I rejoice in finding the small changes and love seeing how they can make a large systemic impact.
and balancing business needs while advocating for the people I'm designing for.
I enjoy cross-collaborating, working around technical requirements,
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I am passionate about building mindful communities and enjoy breaking down complex problems and finding small changes to understand how they can make a large systemic impact.
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Born into a family of engineers, I was inspired to take the engineering path and never considered the prospect of a creative career until I came across user-conscious design and fell in love with it. It was the perfect blend of everything I love - Technology, analytical thinking, creative thinking, and the ability to truly connect with the people I am solving problems for.
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💪 My Journey from Engineering to Design has been one with many lessons learned:
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A journey of continuous evolution and iteration
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A journey of perseverance and persistence to constantly work toward what I'm passionate about.
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Confidence to sometimes leap into the unknown.
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Using my engineering lens to cross-collaborate across engineering teams
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Recognizing my powers of making sense of complexity, creative thinking, and quick learning
I aim to design innovative products with a mindful approach, merging technology and humanity.
By utilizing mindful technology, I strive to create experiences that are both meaningful and conscious of how they impact people's lives, helping people become the best version of themselves while navigating this complex world.
By utilizing mindful technology, I strive to create experiences that are both meaningful and conscious of how they impact people's lives, helping people become the best version of themselves while navigating this complex world.
⭐️ Explorations
Studio Forward & Google Present -
The Future of Belonging
👉 Was 1 out of the 4 students from my cohort selected to be a part of an interdisciplinary class sponsored by Google where we explored the future of belonging meant and created exhibits in the end
💡 Learnings:
Hands-on creation, thinking out of the box, speculative design
Sleepy - the eyemask that helps millions suffering from sleep issues
👉 Used Arduino programming to prototype an eyemask concept that releases scents to help you sleep. Prototyping smell was a hard one!
💡 Learnings:
Debugging, testing and iterating, relearning my electrical engineering concepts
Adobe + Amazon Creative Jam
👉 In a two-week design challenge, we created CommUnity, a platform to help high school students gain more access to community service opportunities with measurable visual impact.
💡 Learnings:
Quick decision making, quick iterating, Adobe XD, voice prototyping
Rapid Prototyping Techniques
👉 Over the past year, I've explored many modes of creating and bringing my ideas to life
💡 Learnings:
Don't be intimidated, try new things, it's less complicated than it looks