
Abhinav Rai
Interaction Designer / UX Writer in India, He/Him
Hit me up for 0 ->1 product design & UX writing projects
About
Human computer interaction designer, crafting interfaces and experiences which spark delight and create joy.
Feel free to reach out for details on the listed projects.
Work Experience
Steering interfaces, brand and copy.
As a remote freelance designer, I have worked with early stage companies providing interface design and branding solutions.
Responsible for creating essential branding assets and creating the MVP for the mobile app.
Projects
Minerva is a intuitive and cerebral interface which envisions to foster creativity, manage inflow of knowledge & most importantly utilize knowledge.
Conceptualization at a new mobile centric OS which pushes forward digital well being of the users.
Athena is a productivity app for creative professionals with cognitive disorders such as ADD, ADHD and OCD. The application helps the users with effective note taking, knowledge management, project management and daily to-dos.
A habit building application based on the atomic habits framework by James Clear.
Side Projects
Co-founded & co-chaired the most opinionated, disruptive and innovative student chapter in UPES. FlyCHI is open sourced, maintains a flat hierarchy and design first ideologically. It is an ambitious collection of misfits learning and experimenting.
A project selected by the UPES Runway incubator's first cohort. YAN3 was a web3 service revolving around real estate, startups and technology.
Writing
A thought piece about a topic I deeply feel about and resonate with. The objective was to evangelize "taste" as a concept for designers.
An observational piece for the ACM SIGCHI newsletter where I wrote about the power of intuition in the design process and how designers can tap into that to stand out from the crowd.
birdwatch is an application that has been geared towards the forest rangers in the rural areas, to aid them with the identification of endangered and indigenous species of birds. At the core of birdwatch is a sound recognition ML model which has been feed with a handpicked dataset of 100+ species of indigenous found in the Indian subcontinent. birdwatch reduces the need for complex equipment or relying on ear for recognition by replacing all of that with a simple mobile device.
Education
Interaction designer pursuing "Communication & Media Design" with keen interest in fields like user research, accessibility, UX/AR/VR, and identity design.