Published inBootcamp·PinnedLanding a product design internship in the US!Journey through the application process and timeline — Planning to spend your summer as a product design intern in the US? Buckle up your seats and be prepared for a roller coaster ride. While it may seem all sweet on the outside, it does take a lot of time and commitment. Hello! I’m Anupriya and I’ll be spending…Product Design9 min readProduct Design9 min read
Mar 29MDes vs MHCI @CMUPart 2: A comparison highlighting the differences and similarities — With admission offers going around and decision-making in the process, this might be a good time to continue Part 1 of the comparison between MDes and MHCI. …Masters In Design6 min readMasters In Design6 min read
Dec 14, 2022Hi, I’m Doki 🤖Thanks for bringing me to life! — Your delightful, optimistic, kawaii, & intriguing robopet is brought to you by Sonia Wu, Anupriya Gupta, Lokesh Fulfagar, Adarsh Agarwal, Daisy Dai, Meiyi Chen If you have ever found yourself scrolling through social media platforms like Instagram for procrastination, you are not alone. According to our research, the average American…Persuasion3 min readPersuasion3 min read
Nov 16, 2022MDes vs MHCI @CMUPart 1: A comparison highlighting the differences and similarities — With application season around the corner, a lot of people reached out to me asking about the difference between CMU MDes and CMU MHCI courses apart from a general overview of the MDes program. …Cmu2 min readCmu2 min read
Published inBootcamp·Sep 13, 2022Product design internship at AsanaI had an incredible time as an intern in Asana, and here’s why! — I spent the summer of 2022 in San Francisco as a product design intern at Asana. For those of you who are unaware of Asana — it is a task management platform designed to help teams organize, track and manage their work. One of the most intriguing facts is that…Product Design Internship5 min readProduct Design Internship5 min read
Nov 4, 2021Visualizing PatternsCommunication Design — Project 3 — Learnings and reflections from the communication design studio taught by Stacie Rohrbach at Carnegie Mellon University. Aim of this project is to illuminate connections among data in ways that help viewers recognize, engage in, and think critically about important inherent relationships, that may not be apparent or may be overlooked…Data Visualization11 min readData Visualization11 min read
Nov 2, 2021The Science behind Human MemoryMaking the Abstract Concrete | CD Studio, 2021 — Every day, as we interact with our environments, we form new memories. The concept of memory seems so abstract, that people often wonder how it works? Sometimes, the most recent events are forgotten while a decade-old memory is still fresh in our minds. At the same time, we may forget…Human Memory2 min readHuman Memory2 min read
Sep 29, 2021Making the Abstract ConcreteCommunication Design — 2 — Learnings and reflections from the communication design studio taught by Stacie Rohrbach at Carnegie Mellon University. The aim of the project is to address the challenge of making something abstract concrete using communication design, in my case, the Human Memory — how it works, where it exists and why is…12 min read12 min read
Sep 2, 2021Navigating InformationCommunication Design — 1 — Learnings and reflections from the communication design studio taught by Stacie Rohrbach at Carnegie Mellon University. Contents Implicit Communication Knowing thy peers Truth Decay Style — Denotation, Connotation and Schema Napkin Sketches Making users cognizant Collective Understanding Whiteboard exercise Design Jam Characteristics of Intervention Navigating a city vs information20 min read20 min read
Feb 4, 2021Write book reviews — for yourself!We read. We absorb. We forget. It often happens that we read several books about diverse topics, but as time goes by, this knowledge slowly fades away. While we ponder upon the details, some bits go missing from the puzzle. This raises the question of how do we retain the…Book Review2 min readBook Review2 min read
