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"The Principle of a Venture is not *we sell* but *for people*" - 2020 mantra for…
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What an Art Critic from the Victorian Era can teach a 21st Century Researcher?
What an Art Critic from the Victorian Era can teach a 21st Century Researcher?
By Ankush Samant
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Lessons from 50 years of ATM's existence (Yes, 50 years!)
Lessons from 50 years of ATM's existence (Yes, 50 years!)
By Ankush Samant
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Imagine This: Digital Reconstruction of Dreams
Imagine This: Digital Reconstruction of Dreams
By Ankush Samant
Contributions
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What do you do if your UX Research interview is filled with common mistakes?
1. Go back to the drawing board. What were your initial objectives and hypothesis. Map your questions to the objectives. Re-calibrate and iterate. 2. Reach out to a UX research peer or an expert and get the interview script assessed from a different perspective. 3. Do a mock interview with an internal team member and see where are your interview questions failing.
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What do you do if your research skills are being tested in an interview?
1. Take your interviewer through an end to end research project that you have been part of. 2. Show them the roles you played, key insights that you found and outcomes of the research. 3. Understand what aspect of research would they want you to talk about and elaborate on that.
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What do you do if you want to maximize your career growth as an entrepreneur in UX research?
1. Start small - work with smaller organizations or projects within larger organizations to take them through an end to end UX research process. 2. Show Value - how does your UX Research add value to the organization? 3. How does it shape the future? UX Research is not just about researching the current, but leading to the future.
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If you are a Service Designer or an aspiring Service Designer in #Singapore then this is a must attend event for you folks. We have amazing Service…
If you are a Service Designer or an aspiring Service Designer in #Singapore then this is a must attend event for you folks. We have amazing Service…
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Ever wondered what the fuzz on sustainability is all about? Or how you can play our part to address issues on climate change? Join Chemistry's…
Ever wondered what the fuzz on sustainability is all about? Or how you can play our part to address issues on climate change? Join Chemistry's…
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Experience
Education
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Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
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Activities and Societies: Football (Hostel Football Team that won Sikander 2009-10 and College Football Team), Index
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Activities and Societies: Kot Partners Interculturels
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Activities and Societies: Alcheringa, Techniche, Spirit, Manthan
Resaerch Papers Published:
1. Text-Dependent Writer Identification using Word Length Analysis, IICAI 2005
2. Optimization analysis of intelligent myoelectric control, Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (Varna, Bulgaria). 2004;2:474-479 -
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Activities and Societies: Dramatics, Football
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Football Coach
Auroville Football Club
- Present 11 years 11 months
Children
Sports is a great way to bring out the collective spirit of children! On one hand it makes a connection between the diverse group and the coach and on the other hand it is a great medium to teach the principles of collectivity, team building, organization, self-discipline and self-motivation. Nonetheless, the underlying benefit of physical exercise is invaluable as well!
Coaching for me was a very different experience than playing football on my own. The diversity of the students-…Sports is a great way to bring out the collective spirit of children! On one hand it makes a connection between the diverse group and the coach and on the other hand it is a great medium to teach the principles of collectivity, team building, organization, self-discipline and self-motivation. Nonetheless, the underlying benefit of physical exercise is invaluable as well!
Coaching for me was a very different experience than playing football on my own. The diversity of the students- ranging from French, Spanish, German upper class families to Tamil lower economic class families made this experience even more gratifying and challenging!
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Volunteer
Hong Kong Rugby Union
- Present 5 years 8 months
Children
I am part of the Volunteering team from Standard Chartered Bank that works with Hong Kong Rugby Union to promote Rugby as a sport for all. As a part of this initiative, HKRU coaches the Deaf Rugby team and organizes multiple events where we can play as part of their teams or test our skills against their superb touchdowns!
https://www.hkrugby.com/news/celebrating-youth-day-in-china-at-the-hong-kong-rugby-union-community-foundation
Publications
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Knot an Innovation: Ten Rules for Successful Products
User Experience Magazine, 16(4)
The ten rules and the tetrahedron of innovation are tools to collaborate and develop designs and products that people want to use and embrace every day.
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Optimization analysis of intelligent myoelectric control
Intelligent Systems, IEEE Conference
Projects
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Sustainable Alternate Lifestyles
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A research study on Sustainable Alternate Lifestyles where we create short story reports on people who have been living a sustainable alternate lifestyle with a hope to inspire readers to adopt some of the principles followed by these people. A hope though this report will be to present this aspirational way of living as an inspiration for the present generation and future generation
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Visualization with Kids
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The project was to imagine solutions to the current world problems and to come up with ideas for a brighter future by holding an interactive sessions with children aged 6-12 at private organizations and schools. To make it fun for the kids, we designed a Role Playing game where children were asked to explore their creative limits through storytelling and art & craft sessions.
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Transhumanism - Technology powered Humans (Report)
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Through this technology report, we have tried to answer the following report
Will Humans evolve to be Trans humans? What is Trans humanism? Are there any trans humans among us already?
This report has generated massive online viewership (more than 46,000)Other creatorsSee project -
Sustainable Future - Waste Management in India
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Waste Management in India is a growing problem as there are no scientific methods currently used to treat them. A major problem is the spread of awareness among people regarding the positive and negative potential of urban waste in India. The report of Sustainable Futures in Waste Management gives an overview of the scenario of Waste Management and a possible solution to spread awareness of waste management at a house hold level.
Other creatorsSee project
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