Interaction
Gaming
Product
UI UX My Work Ekta.S Education
2013 Masters in Design Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 9.50
2011 Bachelor of Engineering Jaya Engineering College, Anna University, Chennai 78.03 Electronics & Communication
2007 Higher Secondary Kendriya Vidyalaya Heavy Vehicles Factory, Chennai 89.16
2005 Senior Secondary Kendriya Vidyalaya Heavy Vehicles Factory, Chennai 90.80 Ekta Surender Masters in Design Interests Computer Skills Other User Experience Design Adobe Illustrator CS5 Interaction Design Adobe Photoshop CS5 A Tamil Nadu Women State cricketer, 2010-2012 Game Design Solid Works Product Design Keyshot 2.0 Design Head of product development team of Svagatagmi, an NGO Rhinoceros 4.0 The team project won the Jury appreciation award in the Hindustan Uniliver Ltd. Design Jamming contest, CODE- 2013, and will be executed in collaboration Languages Hobbies with HUL Sports Secretary of the Girls Hostel English Painting Hindi Playing Cricket Design team coordinator for the Vivekananda Youth Leadership Convention 2013 Tamil Music French
page 1 Adu - Huli
The Goats and the Tiger : A board game that can be played between a visually challenged and a visually able child. Adu Huli > Individual Project Benchmarking : Establishing the current scenario Game board design - Iterations
A number of existing games for visually challenged children were studied and the gaps The original board Adu-Huli, an ancient game of Mysuru - were identified. One of the major gap was the number of games, that make a visually Complex in shape, challenged child interact with a sighted child are very few. Di cult to visualize as there are18 markers, Design Objective : To design an inclusive board game that can be played between More cognitive load, more strategising required as no die a visually challenged and a sighted child. The final design is very simple, symmetric in shape with only 7 playing markers, thus easy to map and is a combination of strategy and luck to reduce the cognitive load on the children
less interactive No feedback to just a conversion of visually challenged LUDO into braille Symmetric shape, 7 Playing Markers child Lesser cognitive load Easy to map Study of mental mapping pattern of visually challenged children The final Design object- object mapping How to kill a goat? How to trap the Tiger?
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G T G T G spend more time Build mental maps of layout and routes with Linear recognition exploring the environment the help of non visual frames of reference of spatial features G
EKTA SURENDER GAME DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 3 Adu Huli > Game Design Rapid prototyping and User Testing Analysis of errors made during play The game was played with the visually challenged children and the recorded videos were analysed to low fidelity prototype find out the errors made and problems faced during the play. The best posible solutions were found.
Errors made and respective solutions Exploration demo board Both kids wanting to become the tiger Die decides Playing markers fell out of the The ‘2’ on the die was confused cavities often with a 5 Board with grooves & slider Braille ‘2’ path ways
Children took time to On a 2 the Goat tries to jump locate the die after rolling to an opposite corner Die with sound Braille rules & slider pathways
Forgot rules often Die slips o the hand Braille instruction Tiger dubious if he can l a rg e r di e manual move backwards too Included in rules
EKTA SURENDER GAME DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 4 Adu Huli > Game Design The final Design and User Testing Game packaging ‘Adu Huli’ written in Braille Braille instruction manual Low fidelity prototype of final design The Final board
Sliding pathways for easy guiding
Regular instruction Goats with Tiger with a Braille die manual woollen texture flat head with sound
EKTA SURENDER GAME DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 5 Gift’emotions A web application for the true joy of ‘gifting’ Gift’emotions > A team of four
THE DESIGN PROCESS 1 The Problem 4 Questionnaire and User Survey ?
People are confused Distant apart, not able to No su cient time One on one interviews with Telephonic interviews what to gift to whom? gift in person directly. to search for gifts a strategic questionnaire with people with a questionnaire
Redefining the Literature survey Informal Talks Field Study 2 3 5 design brief 6 & analysis
SHOP
The Design brief was redefined The data gathered from the Informal talks with people Visited various gift shops and silently and a problem statement was internet about various gifting to know what they think observed what people buy in a gift formulated trends and mediums existing about gifting? shop, and how they decide it? today
EKTA SURENDER UX / UI DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 7 Gift’emotions > A team of four
71 Determining Target Users 10 Some final website layouts
Time pressed people
People distant apart
Behavioural based segmentation Emotionally driven people
2 Initial Design Ideation Concept generation and 8 9 Paper prototyping
Creating personas and scenarios Brainstorming
EKTA SURENDER UX / UI DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 8 Where to Shop
USID Student’s Design Challenge - A shopping mobile application Where to Shop > A team of four Why is it needed? How it works? It is an app which provides information about the latest o er details of nearest branded shops based on the person’s location instantly. SALE !! People have no time to go to every shop to check ongoing o ers Location What All available How to Share the where I do I want o ers and reach the information want to to buy? discounts shop? with friends People are brand shop on the item concious, but prefer to buy them during Some final screen shots o - season sales
People look for discounts and o ers during Festivals
Comparing which of the o er suits me the best?
EKTA SURENDER UX / UI DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 10
Blow Ball
A blow game for differently abled children Blow-Ball > Internship Project - Design Head of a team of 4
An attempt to solve the drooling problem of the mentally challenged children with the Proposed Solution help of a fun filled game. The concept is similar to that of Basketball where in the aim of the player is to aim to throw the ball into the basket. Here similarly the children have to blow at the balls through the pipe into the basket.
Loose cheek muscles Transparent lid Basket
Why is it a Problem? Sloping floor ramp to to roll back lift the the balls down balls
What is the How to solve Problem? the Problem?
Make’em Drooling blow to tighten in kids Existing Solutions muscles Balls
Pipe
Noisy, Blow irritating to others, short lasting
EKTA SURENDER PRODUCT DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 13 Blow-Ball > Internship Project Low fidelity Prototype and User Testing 3-D Modelling and rendering of the final model A low fidelity rapid prototype was developed and was tested with few children. The audio feedback, inclusivity of multiple players and level adjustment features are included. The levels can be increased or decreased by pulling or pushing the Shortfalls in the prototype and scope of improvement - basket up or down with the help of the two rods externally.
Audio feedback is needed when a ball falls into the centre basket
Di erent di culty levels needed according to the di erent blowing intensities
Peer interaction can be increased by making it a multi-player game
A two - four player game
EKTA SURENDER PRODUCT DESIGN IIT KANPUR page14 The Hungry Monkey
An Akash tablet application for mentally challenged children The Hungry monkey > Internship project
The Design challenge - To design a game for mentally challenged children to make them understand the concept of left and right. Concept The aim of the monkey is to eat as many bananas and stars as possible. On tilting to left, the monkey moves left and on tilting right - the the monkey moves right. On tapping the screen - the monkey jumps and eats the bananas.
Character design - Digital Sketches
In progress EKTA SURENDER UX /UI DESIGN IIT KANPUR page16 The future email OzCHI- A 24 hour design challenge to design the future email
@ OzCHI 24 hour Design Challenge > A team of four The Design challenge - To design the future of email Literature survey Overall problems discovered in the current email Major tasks in an email system and what could be the di culties Cluttered information- increases cognitive load Spamming Lack of customization Personal archiving File management cumbersome Asynchronous Contact Task Personal Missing important information communication management management Archiving Task management not easy Organizing mails
Taking user’s point of view - Problems faced Brainstorming and concept generation
- Spams!
- Too many mails!
- Sorting and deleting unwanted mails
- File management cumbersome
- Loss of information Concepts were generated based on the problems identified and brainstorming done for appropriate solutions
EKTA SURENDER UX / UI DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 18 OzCHI 24 hour Design Challenge > A team of four The Final Proposed Solution
User set high priority incoming Important To Dos and their deadlines Collection of all the attachments, mails always on top marked with contacts exchanged with a person a yellow tag
Man - mapping, all mails of a sender in one thread Priority Others
User can set a contact as ‘priority’ or ‘other’ Tag important dates in the calendar
EKTA SURENDER UX / UI DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 19 Bird Repellent
A self operated, cost effective bird repellent for Indian farmers Bird Repellent > A team of two
Existing Solutions Expectations of an average Indian Farmer
Ultrasonic bird repellers Propane guns Ultrasonic repellents Crackers Low Dummy of predator birds Electricity driven Self Scare balloons Expensive operated maintenance Flash tapes Spikes Scarecrows Inefective for Laser beams Long time A ordable E ective Dogs Unreliable Beating empty cans Dummy of predator birds
Durable Reliable
Studying the common farm birds Scarecrows Common birds - Myna, Blackbird, Stirling, Sparrow, House crow Birds get adapted Get scared by scarecrows and predator bird dummies but get used Not long lasting to them Birds get habituated Auditory scarers make them uncomfortable but they become May kill the bird habituated to sound Not long lasting Scare balloons Eyes get distracted by holographic reflections and are scared to enter into that area
EKTA SURENDER PRODUCT DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 21 Bird Repellent > A team of two Concept sketches Final Design
no vertical reflection, birds might get habituated the blades might not rotate during multi directional wind menacing patterns of - Alternative design for the blades needed reflected rays irritate birds Holographic reflective multi angled planes surface for varying angles of reflected rays every Vertical axis wind moment turbine
fins
ball bearing assembly
birds might get habituated to it after few days birds might get habituated to it after few days
The final concept selected is based on the principle of holographic reflection. It consists of a pyramid shaped holographic reflector with multi angled planes mounted on a low wind vertical axis wind turbine. . The light reflected back by this pyramid disorients birds in flight by limiting their vision significantly. This causes the bird to deviate in flight and fly to another destination.
EKTA SURENDER PRODUCT DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 22 Posters and banner design
The posters and brochures were designed for school children to describe various events that were held on the account of The Vivekananda Youth Leadership Convention 2013 held in IIT Kanpur. The world suicide prevention day banner was designed based on the theme ‘Celebrating Life’.
EKTA SURENDER VISUAL DESIGN IIT KANPUR page 23 Expressive Typography
EKTA SURENDER EXPRESSIVE TYPOGRAPHY IIT KANPUR page 24 Other Works
Logo Design
RUTAG stands for Rural Technology Action Group - An IIT Kanpur’s initiative to integrate technology with the rural India.
Logos depict the enlightenment of villages with the help of technology. The village is shown in the centre and the technology is depicted by the ru tag engulfing bulb and the gear.
RU I I T TAG IIT KANPUR kanpur Story boarding for Gift’emotions
This one will go Hmmm... Lets for a SIX for sure have some fun Hairy Harry Spiky Miky Yes yaar Hairy even I can ye kya hua???? never forget those days :) mummy !!! thank u buddy
In fond memories of those old days...
which will remain Gift’emotions with me forever!! oye langotia :) IND vs AUS
IND Vs Best buddies langotia yaar AUS
EKTA SURENDER IIT KANPUR page 25 Thank Yo u [email protected] [email protected] 9621143377