Abhinav Rai
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Abhinav Rai

Interaction Designer / UX Writer in India, He/Him

Hit me up for 0 ->1 product design & UX writing projects

A year ago

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

2024 — Now
Product & Brand Designer at Stealth Healthcare Startup

Steering interfaces, brand and copy.

2023 — 2024
Bengaluru

Building India’s 1st business phone number.

2022 — 2023
Freelance UX & Brand Identity Designer at

As a remote freelance designer, I have worked with early stage companies providing interface design and branding solutions.

2019 — 2021
UX & Brand Designer at Carrus Mobility Solutions
Remote

Responsible for creating essential branding assets and creating the MVP for the mobile app.

Projects

2023
Graduation Thesis / Minerva

Minerva is a intuitive and cerebral interface which envisions to foster creativity, manage inflow of knowledge & most importantly utilize knowledge.

2023
Capstone Project / ArtemisOS

Conceptualization at a new mobile centric OS which pushes forward digital well being of the users.

2021
Capstone Project / Athena

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.

2020
Capstone Project / Habitually

A habit building application based on the atomic habits framework by James Clear.

Side Projects

2023

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.

2022
YAN3

A project selected by the UPES Runway incubator's first cohort. YAN3 was a web3 service revolving around real estate, startups and technology.

Writing

2023

A thought piece about a topic I deeply feel about and resonate with. The objective was to evangelize "taste" as a concept for designers.

2023

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.

2022

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

2019 — 2023
Bacholer's of Design at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

Interaction designer pursuing "Communication & Media Design" with keen interest in fields like user research, accessibility, UX/AR/VR, and identity design.

Certifications

2021
Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success from Imperial College London
2020
Introduction to Psychology from Yale University
2020
Introduction to Typography from CalArts
2020
Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action from University of California

Volunteering

2019 — 2022
Graphic and Web Design at United Club of Developers
2019 — 2019
Event Photography at UPES ILCTC 2019 at UPES School of Law
2019 — 2019
Event Photography at The 3rd UPES Intra MUN 2019 at UPES MUN Club