Won 1st place | Design Leadership Summit 2020
Plural Navigation : Navigation for a Wholesome Experience
Navigation Platforms like Google Maps, use objective and generic quantitative data to provide all its users’ an optimized path between their intended point A and point B. This paper opens up questions like– is the primary goal of navigation to reach the destination? If not, then what all are the constituents and parameters of a journey between then A and B? What are the parallels in the offline and online navigation experience? Furthermore, what experiences need to be aided by technology? The paper’s focus is on identifying guiding principles for designing navigation experiences.
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Make in India (Policy Review)
Under the Ministry of Commerce of the Government of India and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Make in India or Public Procurement is a Scheme under the Foreign Direct Investment Policy. Based on the 2017 revision, it was stated that “it is the policy of the government of India to encourage ‘Make in…
Humanizing Technology or Mechanizing Humans
We are living in a digital world. Integrating part by part our lives with technology and finding aid to our needs, problems, curiosity, entertainment, ailments through it. We are left amazing by how an application through the web can deliver such deceptively simple solutions to the world’s cribbing and literally take them to the world…
GIRLS AND WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND AT WORK
Though the literacy rates and almost been the same and the women employment rates have been slightly declining in the past few years, more and more women are empowered now and are making their way into such conversations. It is a common saying, “Empowered women empower other women” and that I feel is growing steeply.
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Numbers
Numbers. What do numbers mean to us? When we see numbers on expiry, reliability, recyclability on our products it is a sign of proof and validation. When we see numbers of rating on movies and shows it represents the worth of spending time on it. We have a sense of discomfort when we see numbers…
Internet of Things
Imagine waking up in the morning, your alarm goes off and simultaneously sends a signal to your coffee maker to brew your coffee. Your outfit for the day made ready depending on your mood, hot water bath set up with your choice of music and your day’s plan prepared for you next to your breakfast…
Trauma and its Impact on Childhood and Child Development
ABSTRACTThe literature on traumas of childhood and its effect on them in the form ofpermanent atypical behavior due to traumatic experiences, violence, and neglectsuggest that the violence either results in the child being antisocial or to the otherextreme of being unreasonably willing to socialize with any stranger. The effect isalso shown as either of developing…
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Critical Analysis- Cultural Capital
What did I first think when I heard cultural capital? As literal as it can be, I asked myself is my culture my capital? My asset? I looked at the clothes I was wearing, the bag I was carrying, and the picture of ‘Lal Baug cha raja’ that I had in my zipped pouch. You…
Orientalism
Who were the Orients and the Occident? By theory, orients belonged to the eastern and the occidents belonged to the western part of the world. But all these geographical distinctions in society are all man-made. In fact the occidents call themselves the west and the orients the east is also man-made.