Miscellaneous Design and Research Projects

PARITOSH BAHIRAT

UX Researcher | Designer

Tree of Life - A Tangible User Experience

 

I collaborated with Yifang Li, Sandhya Rajasabeson and Matthew Lam to work on this exiting project as a part of our Tangible and Embodied Interaction course. We designed a new way to provide an educational experience for School Kids to learn about Tree of Life.

We developed a conceptual prototype using the most basic technology and material we had. We made several tokens which would serve as a Tangible Interaction media to interact with our prototype. These 'tokens' we designed in Adobe Illustrator and then they were fabricated by laser cutting wooden plyboard. We also used Adobe XD to develop Mock-Ups of display software which would serve as a feedback media.

 

Click on the below image to visit our Adobe Spark page to know more about this project.

 

Find a copy of this project proposal here.

 

Can Screensavers help improve Privacy Decision Making of Smart Phone Users?

 

In this Project, I collaborate with Daricia Wilkinson, Bart Knijnenburg, Moses Namara, Arwa Alsubhi and Jing Liu to explore an idea where we use screensavers as a means to inform its users about various data sharing practices of Smart Phone apps.

 

For this project, we conducted a thorough interview study to understand what kind of interface layout would users prefer if they were to use a screensaver/application like this. In the interview study, participants were shown screensaver designs which were made using InVision. The designs, primarily showed various apps or various data types. The interview study was within subjects where each participant saw either an app type interface or a data type interface and followed by questions which probed about their opinions regarding general usability of the interfaces.

 

Feel free to mail me if you want to know more about this project!

 

You can take a look at our poster about this project!

 

Preserving Privacy in Autonomous Driving Vehicles

 

In class project as a part of CPS 6180 (Usable Privacy and Security) course to design an possible interaction method or an interface which can be used to manage Privacy in the futuristic autonomous vehicles.

 

The project followed the following stepwise product development methodology:

 

1. Using semi structured interviews to gather user needs.

2. Competitive Benchmarking and evaluating the most similar technology available (Used iPhone's privacy settings interface).

3. Designing a prototype interface to manage privacy inside autonomous vehicles.

4. Testing the designed prototype

5. Iterated through the prototyping and user testing phase.

 

 

 

Designing app for CA2VES electricity module

 

In class project as a part of CPS 6140 (Introduction to Human Computer Interaction) course to design an app for iPhone.

 

The aim was to redesign a windows based application such that it could be used on an iPhone. The original software was developed in order to simulate training to use devices such as ammeter, voltmeter, breadboard and so on. This project was challenging in a sense that the area of screen available to conduct same simulatory experience was drastically reduced. Even the user would have to rely on just touch to successfully navigate and learn from the experience.

 

Gathered user needs to understand the issues with existing design. Worked upon those needs to create prototypes using Adobe XD and Adobe Photoshop to develop the application. Few snapshots on the left.

Website developed by Paritosh Bahirat. Updated in December 2018