Design Project

NEHA VERMA

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INTREST

HCI, UI Design, Information Architecture or Web Applications

EDUCATION

Master of Design with specialization in Interaction Design August

2007- May 2009

GPA: 9.26 @ 1-10 scale

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India

Bachelor of Architecture August 2002 - June 2007

GPA: 7.16 @ 1-10 scale

Government College of Architecture, Luckhnow, India

SKILLS

Software

Adobe Creative Suite including In Design, Photoshop, and Illustrator,

Auto-Cad, 3Ds Max, Sketch up, and Ms Office.

Web

HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScripting, jQuery, Flash and Action script

Design

UI Design, Storyboarding, Mock-ups and Prototype development,

Ethnographic Research, Task analysis, Contextual Enquiry, Persona and

Scenario Creation, UML Modeling, Wireframes, Rapid Prototyping,

Interface Design User Testing, Heuristic Evaluation Techniques, Think

Aloud Protocol, Card Sorting, Meta Analysis and GOMS Modeling.

WORK EXPERIENCE

. Master Moon Classes - Logo and Stationary Design May 2011

Freelance Designer

Designed and developed the logo and Stationary design for master

moon's Tae Kwon Do school at Minneapolis. This project uses cool

colors, unique typefaces, and simple shapes to produce the client's

desired look.I tried to make it reproducible on many media types and

uses simple vector art and printer's ink colors.

. Save Earth - Facebook Application December 2009

Freelance Designer

Designed a green quiz, for Facebook that aims to evaluate and educate

Facebook user community on how responsible they are for their

environment and how much they are contributing to make earth greener.

For this quiz, I designed over all schema and graphics.

. "mERGERs 2009" - ParisTech Conference Website, Le Mans University,

France March 2009

Freelance Designer

Designed and maintained the ParisTech conference website for the year

2009. Mergers is a symposium organized by the ParisTech institute of

technology. The main goal of this website is to convey all the

information about the symposium.

. Mobile Phone Games - Hexolabs Media Private Ltd., India May 2008 -

July2008

Internship

Design six cell phone games, each with their own unique design

constraints. All concepts were bring forth from arbitrary discussions.

And each game was programmed from scratch in 3 days time.

. Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Guwahati, India August 2007 -

May2009

Research Assistant

o Usability Evaluation: - Conducted a Usability Research to

understand "What Characteristics of a Campaign Make It

Particularly Usable and What Make It Difficult".

o Usability Evaluation: - Conducted Usability Research to identify

the Semantic Relationship between Identity and Music.

o M.Des-2007 Batch visual Design Broacher: - Designed and

Documented M.Des-2007 batch Visual Design work broacher for the

IIT Guwahati Design Department.

. Centre for Planning and Environment Technology(CEPT) University, India

August 2005 - December 2005

Architect/Designer - Summer Internship

Aided in the concept design and detailing for various architectural

design projects.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

. Tangible Social Networking for Indian Socio-Cultural Community

August 2008 - May 2009

Master's Project

Proposed a mobile phone based social networking system with a special

consideration of Indian socio-cultural fabric. This application

introduces today's most popular trend of social networking among

Indian society but not beyond their traditional social limits.

. Tea Time Packaging January 2009 - April 2009

Joint workshop of Holon Institute of Technology, Israel and Indian

Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India

Design a branding and corporate identity under Prof. Iko Avital. The

brief given was to create a complete brand image of Assam tea which

belongs to the category, shelves.

. Navigation System for the IIT Guwahati Campus August 2008 -

November 2008

Design a system for the visitors of IIT Guwahati visitors to solve

their various issues related to campus and its members.

. Paper Punching Machine January 2008 - May 2008

Design and prototype a paper punching machine which goes beyond its

functionality and attracts visual appreciation.

. Identity Design January 2008 - May 2008

Proposed a unified corporate brand identity package for the IIT

Guwahati, this was a part of graphic design assignment during M.Des

III semester.

. Paper Weight August 2007 - November 2007

Mini Project

An attribute that reflect user identity was the main idea behind the

whole design concept of this paper weight. Target clientele for the

product was female executives.

. Visual Pattern Design August 2007 - November 2007

Created 25 monochrome patterns, and they all were inspired by fruit

lemon sectional fabric.

. Architecture Projects and Assignments August 2002 - May 2007

Under Graduate

Academic projects including design, construction techniques etc.

Relevant COURSES

. HCI and Ubiquitous computing interaction

. System analysis & Information design

. Usability Engineering

. Ergonomics & Human factor

. Design research method

. Semantics, Semiotics & Metaphors

. Visual communication

. Architecture relevant courses

AWARDS / ACTIVITIES

. Awarded with the National level GATE Scholarship for Master of Design

degree, August 2007- May 2009

. Qualified the first round of International Renault car design

competition held in 2007.

. Appreciation letter from Prof. Colin SCHMIDT, Le Mans University,

FRANCE for the Paris tech conference website design, April 2009

. Indian classical dancer (Kathak) trained for 3 years and performed at

several cultural events.

. National junior hockey player - played as a team member of KV High

School Systems India, 1998 - 1999.

. Participated and won awards in design competitions at the National

Association of Student of Architecture convention, 2003.

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