Abhishek Dhyani

18th March 1986 [email protected] +91 8050049909

s/o Dr SK Dhyani type VI NRCAF

near Pahuj Dam, Gwalior rd Jhansi,UP
284003

Objective To communicate via intuitive narratives & immersive experiences backed by user research. Looking forward to work with brands that enable, encourage new methodologies & and having respect for research & design. Travel around.

Education CBSE, Scholars Home, Dehradoon, UA 10 +2 MIT Institute of Design, Pune

Diploma in Communication Design ( Graduated ­2011)

Skills Design Research Interaction Design

Information Architect
System Design
UX/UI Design
Data/ Information Visualisation

Software skills Illustrator Photoshop

3DS Max
Front end (CSS +HTML)

Interests Cooking, Organizing & Facilitating Startup events/ Community Building, Piano, Running & Sketching.

****************Due to the nature of my recent work with a few brands having signed NDA, for details I am open for Skype calls or a selective preview of my portfolio(mail)*******************

Experience

Startup Weekend Creative Edition Bangalore (June 2014)

Organizer, Social media campaign, Visual Identity & event logistics.

Position: Co­Organizer
Link : https://creativebangalore.startupweekend.org/

Housing.com: Human Centric Design research for UX intervention & User Insights (March­June2014)
where we (a team of 6) set up a research cell in Mumbai & carried out our HCD approach for UX Intervention for their services followed by User Insights & feasible directions for the future based on the study. (12 weeks).
Position: Core Team member/ Researcher
link: NDA Signed

Vectorform (August 2013 ­ March 2014)

Creative Lead for their client (Microsoft) for building an experience with the Kinect. Lead an 8 member team including developers. Met with clients & set expectations & deadlines. Worked over the project from the Information Architecture level to the Visual design. Set guidelines & logic flow of the system.

Position: Creative Lead link: NDA signed

Self Initiated Healthcare Research in Northern Karnataka

Design research for understanding the state of first­aid kits in rural India. With study material from govt. websites. The motive was to document households with medicines & those without them. Paired up with a local NGO working in that area called Samuha.org, the research ended in 2 weeks (field work ie). Hired a moderator and had another team member document field work. Research concluded with insights to the current situation & outlook of the recruits towards healthcare policies, resources & schemes.
Position: Design researcher
Link: Development paused due to lack of resources.

Indicus Analytics (September ­ November 2013)
UX Designer for web portal. Lead a team of 3, including developer. The exercise was to build a portal that would best showcase research tools & services
Position: Contract engagement/ Freelance Web Designer
link: Under Development

Folography (September 2013)

Design Consultant for Print. Built posters for the 5th Anniversary of CIS (The Center for Internet Society)
link: https://folography.com/portfolio/cis.html
Position: Consultant

Yourstory.com 2013 (March ­ August 2013)

Part­time­job Design Consultant , communication collaterals & event websites ux

Position: Communication Designer
link: https://.behance.net/gallery/12138481/Startup­Jobs­Fair­2013

Startup Weekend Bangalore 2013 (March) Organizer

Setup the graphic language of social media campaigns & other event collaterals Position: Co­organizer

Origine Real Estate Digital Marketing France(September 2012­February 2013)

UX/UI design for mobile apps (I­pad), Real­Estate Digital Marketing. The client wanted a brief digital experience across platforms, including tablets. The site was to be flash­based. The app is under development. The theme being corporate & luxurious.
Position: Freelancer/UX +Interaction designer

link: https://immeuble­tao.com/

Caeruz (August 2012)

To build a User Experience around their existing range of health ­services / Tech. The client had us flown from Delhi to Banglore for a week’s time at the Microsoft­ Accelerator programme for startups.
Position: Consultant/Interaction Design + Visual designer (teamed with Aditya Dipankar,Interaction Designer)

Analyz(June­ August 2012)

Built an interactive platform for presenting data in an interactive,info­graphic fashion. Position: Contract based/Visual Designer (teamed with Sumit Dagar, Abhay Vyas/interaction designers)
ink: https://.behance.net/gallery/Visual­Interaction­Design­2011­12­(part­II)/5073663

Dplay design technologies (March­July 2012)

task: To further work on the laid design foundation of Sunglass.io ( an online 3D­ collaboration web app). With the base already laid, my role was to design the architecture & interaction of the application within. My deliverables included style guidelines and UX/UI structures to be programmed.

Position: Interaction Designer ( A total team of three, including an intern)
link: https://.behance.net/gallery/Sunglass­Brand­Identity­(­pitch­)/5392755

Notion Ink Design labs/ 2011­12 (Feb 2011 ­ Feb 2012)

Design an application for the adam tablet, android based for tracking user activities & presenting them with visuals (info graphics). This included defining the structure & architecture of the application
Postion: Visual + Interaction Designer

link: https://.behance.net/gallery/Visual­Interaction­Design­2011­12­(Part­I)/5073447 Cognizant Technologies/ (Diploma Project in college)

Design a signage system for the Cognizant Facilities in Pune. A 20 week assignment with an industry mentor( Mahendra Patel) & Mr. Suhas Bendre, Coginzant pune.
Position: Contract based/ Graphic Designers
link: Under NDA

Forbes Marshall

Redesign & visualize an existing brochure with 3D Visualizations for their internal processes & diagrams for training material.
Position: Graphic Designers
link: Under NDA

Zeist Marketing (College Summer Internship)

To serve & communicate Print & Web design for clients across mumbai, the process included client­visits & user research
Position: Web Designer
link: Obsolete

Websites https://good­company.in/ (latest) https://pinterest.com/dhyani86/work/

https://.behance.net/dhyani

hobbies cooking, the piano, sketching & running
**** due to some of buy work bound by NDA with a few organizations, kindly mail me for my portfolio at [email protected]