6 months ago, I joined PicnicHealth to focus on the design of our internal product. Blinded by my excitement for starting a new job, I didn’t really know what I was getting into, what “designing for an internal product” actually meant. Believing that the famous user-centered, double-diamond design methodology was…
In September 2019, I moved to San Francisco and started working at PicnicHealth, as the second designer joining the team. I spent 3 months getting to know names, building contextual knowledge around the business, and transitioning from a design student to a professional designer. Entering 2020, I felt different —…
Team Panacea is now at a critical stage of transitioning from research into design. We have been sailing smoothly, but the waves of uncertainty are catching up -
Are we thinking creatively?
Are we reframing our challenges?
How can we achieve a new design that is truly innovative, instead of…
In the student design community, we have been constantly having conversations on tools. Project management, research, design, development… A handful of tools exist for each of these categories, with their own perks and purposes. We are exposed to way too many tools that are supposed to help us work more…
On February 5th, 13 MHCI students from Carnegie Mellon University flew out of Pittsburgh to attend IxDA 2019 in Seattle. It was a hectic but fulfilling week — we learned from inspiring talks, conversed with “celebrities” in the field of design, and witnessed the city freaking out because of a…
As our team left the kick-off meeting on Friday, each one of us was filled with passion and energy. Despite the early morning start and dangerously low temperatures (including an unscheduled snowstorm), we were full of vim and vigor.
We finally got to meet our client, MedRespond, a highly experienced…
Note: This redesign was done for KPCB’s 2019 Design Fellows application.
Redesign a feature of a KPCB company’s product.
I use Figma to design literally everything — posters, models, all sorts of design artifacts and school assignments. It allows designers to collaborate and automatically saves all your work progress in…
