Hello there! I am Isha Agarwal.
I bring with me a background in systems thinking and belief that perfection comes through iteration.

Working in fast paced agile environments and hackathons have taught me how quickly onboard onto new spaces, this works out great cause I love exploring!
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To relax I make portraits, sketches and comics on the side. I like going to parks and watching animated shows. My current favourite is Tear Along the Dotted Line on Netflix.
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Currently I am a student at MHCI+D at University of Washington and will be graduating in August 2022. 
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This is what I look like on a happy acne free day.
My last 7 years in design.
2014-2018
Bachelor of Design,
IIT, Guwahati

The start of my journey! Began multidisciplinary explorations in design, systems thinking and design management to eventually find HCI and design strategy as my calling.
2018-2021
UX Engineer, Societe Generale GBIS, Bangalore

Work in fintech and data centric tools in Agile.
Led end-to-end design of applications and pipelines, documenting requirements, front-end dev, and analysis.
2021-2022
MHCI+D, University of Washington, Seattle

Touching base with design and HCI. Explored the hard questions around ethics in design, what design means to me and how experience and service plays into it.‍
I am a versatile designer with a multidisciplinary background.
With my explorations spanning across various verticals from graphic design to industrial design, I do not shy away from new modes of interaction.
Researching bystander privacy in IOT devices
Exploring features for a future where IOT cameras account for bystander privacy.
Studying on sustainable product service systems
Designing sustainable product-service systems in distributed economies.
Visualizing design processes in a series of post cards
Visual documentation of design processes as postcards, inspired by Dear Data project.
Creating educational board games for children
Game design and physical prototyping to teach school concepts to children.
Designing electric 3-wheelers for urban India
User-centric approach to automotive design by exploring untapped markets.
Designing posters and festival merchandize
Experimented with graphic design for social media posts and tee shirts for a college fest.
Below are some of the publications I have been a part of when exploring these fields.
Addressing Adjacent Actor Privacy: Designing for Bystanders, Co-Users, and Surveilled Subjects of Smart Home Cameras‍
doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3535195
Sproutshout: Participatory Platform for Shared Foster Care of Plants
Winner, Student Design Challenge
‍doi.org/10.1145/3152771.3154861
I think of myself as a storyteller.
In my free time I make comics and illustrations. I post quite a few of my sketches on instagram as @ishtuff.

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