Noopur Varma
Designer - Consultant - Educator in Bangalore, India, she/her
About
I have always been attracted to complexity. I like seeing patterns in things and making sense of things. I like challenging myself, so I can grow. Talk to me about reflection in multiple parts of my career. I spend time reading, meeting people and cooking for leisure. I enjoy working with hand and play around with linocut, watercolors, embroidery etc. Movies/TVshows/Books and my dog are my therapy.
Work Experience
I teach Service Design for an 8 week module. It is for 3rd semester Information Design students, with the help of some industry experts whom I invite for guest lectures.
I am also the in-campus guide through the course of Service Design Module and System Design course.
Working on introducing processes and strategy for this boutique design agency
I worked with 3sidedcoin on a Research Project, where we did market analysis, usability testing and in depth interviews for a big e-commerce brand launching in India.
I also worked with 3sidedcoin on a UX project where we worked with a fintech startup with a re-design of their web portal & mobile app, post MVP launch.
Worked on MVP of this entertainment platform as a Product & Visual Designer
I worked with the founding team to create a digital experience (mobile & web) for learning Python & other personality development skills, so the students can get ready for the industry & jobs.
The students were from tier 2 and tier 3 cities, and did not have access to laptops or in-campus facilities during CO-VID19 pandemic. Navguukul runs *free* campuses throughout India to educate students post their schooling, as an alternative to colleges.
I worked with CUPA to create their early report which they use as a communication medium to talk about their work and for trustees to get funding.
I started with working on the Go-jek app. The first redesign since the app launch with multiple new initiatives with 'driver-chat' being one of them. I also worked on understanding group-behavior patterns, seeing trends, creating research plans and post identification of a valuable offering, on design and delivery for the product launch.
I eventually moved on to lead Design in Chat (customer-customer) and Driver-customer experiences at Gojek.
I joined to start the design studio and build the design practice at nilenso.
In my time at nilenso I worked with startups and large scale organisations across domains like education, training, e-commerce, finance, well-being, healthcare etc.
Worked on Delivery Experience for Myntra and Myntra Delivery partners
Education
Information and Interface Design
Speaking
Spoke about how I designed OpenCHS, an Open Community Health Service platform that works in collaboration with NGO Hospitals. It's a mobile application that helps a health worker perform diagnosis and provides the patients with a treatment.
I spoke about a few challenges faced by newbie designers.
For each of those challenges, I spoke of:
- Detail the perspective of a designer fresh out of grad school, or a designer new to the industry
- Contrast this perspective with what is expected in the industry.
- Enumerate and explain some techniques that one can default to, when in doubt.
- Talk about the things that we can do to help newbie designers learn and grow.
Writing
Understanding in and outs of Indian Rural HealthcareSystems and how I designed a solution for the healthworkers to navigate through the system
Features
Volunteering
Volunteered to trace maps for the affected parts of Nepal during the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. These maps were then downloaded and used by ground staff from Red Cross for rescue