Manvi Fotedar

Manvi Fotedar

Product Design in Bengaluru, she/her

About

Open-minded designer crafting tech for the next million users.

Currently designing enterprise business AI solutions at SAP where we solve complex business use-cases for scale.

Awards

2024
Patent from United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Ongoing

2024
Design Dynamo from SAP

Top-nominated designer to drive impact in SAP Cloud ERP domain for Q1 2024

Work Experience

2022 — Now
UX Designer at SAP Labs
Bengaluru

Designing ERP software in the manufacturing domain by focusing on interdependent supply-chain pipelines. Supported 4 applications spread across planning to execution of components and production from their discovery phase.

Additionally, working on lowering error margins through enhanced data visualisations and quick AI tools to increase shop-floor performance.

2021 — 2021
Product Design Intern at Designplas & Industry Development Network
Remote

Studied the impact of natural disasters in India and narrowed down on floods as responsible for 1500+ annual deaths with increasing vulnerability of life in the country.

Addressed the challenge by exploring various scenarios of improving disaster response, and researched both products & systems under the guidance ofMr Pradeep Chowdhury.

2020 — 2020
Apprenticeship at Evan Hastings
Remote

Identified gaps in cancer awareness to build preventative measures. Conferred with Caroline Hoffman, Clinical and Research Director at Breast Cancer Haven UK, to develop a cup sleeve that aids self-examination of breast cancer.

Education

2018 — 2022
Bengaluru

Industrial Arts and Design Practices (IADP) | 8.0 GPA

2004 — 2018
High School Diploma at Delhi Public School Noida
Noida

PCM with Fine Arts (10+2) | 92%

Side Projects

2022
mBatwa at Philips Student Service Design Challenge

Researched and designed a neo-banking service offering a host of targeted banking services for inter-state migrant workers, comprising a 5.4cr+ largely unbanked population in India, through a dedicated app. Visualised banking for a semi-illiterate user demographic by employing colour-based recognition of currency notes to ease engagement, increase accessibility to welfare schemes, and digital payments, and foster long-term savings plans using research based timelines.

Mentored as a team of four under Anja Popovic, Senior UX designer IBM, and Frank Kolkman Experimental Design, Arnhem, to design for financial and digital literacy and build a credit score through the application.

2020
Guidance at MIT Hacking Medicine

Analysed and iterated on the track of Digital Clinical Measures of Activity alongside a team of doctors, marketing, and data analysts, narrowing down on geriatric care, specifically, Parkinson’s disease.

Built on symptom progression from slowed movements to rigidity, tremors, and repeated falls to create motion-sensor activated AR gaming prototypes for patient rehabilitation and monitoring progress based on the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) and presented solutions to sponsors under the guidance of a diverse set of accomplished mentors.

2019
Theater Lead at National School of Drama

Collaborated with other students to script production of Agha Shahid Ali's "Country Without a Post Office" with a final performance in front of a live audience.

Writing

2023
AI to Detect an AI: Parameters for Identifying AI Generated User Interface Design, HCI International

Researched and co-wrote an accepted poster on parameters for identifying AI generated UI, accepted for presentation

Volunteering

2023 — 2023
Volunteer at UX India
Bengaluru

Contributed to a non-profit UX design conference held in Bengaluru and led by Kaladhar Bapu, serving as a compère and motion designer.

2021 — 2021
Ambassador AsianCHI at Srishti SIGCHI Chapter
Remote

Promoted paper submissions by connecting CHI presidents and potential participants.

Srishti SIGCHI is a team of multi disciplinary individuals doing a monographic study in Human Computer Interaction. As a student chapter, it aims to provide seminars, lectures, learning forums and collaboration opportunities with peers and experts across the computing spectrum.

Contact

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