Designing in the browser
There has been a debate raging for quite a while now: Should designers know how to code? So far, I’ve stood on the side of: designers should know about the tech they are using to know its potential and use it well.
The Random Lines is no longer operational.
Mana manages content, makes custom art and drinks tea: #manacustomart
Manek does art, design and branding, and hosts a podcast: manekdsilva.com
Shilpa builds amazing tools for businesses at Shopify: LinkedIn
Gaurav co-founded All Things Small, a media company telling non-fiction stories from India: gauravvaz.com
Ashim is a product designer at ThoughtWire, creating systems for smart buildings: ashimdsilva.com
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Lavonne Academy
Diversity and detail, representing Lavonne’s award-winning academy in baking science and pastry arts
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Geist Beer
Hand-written and accessible, built to respond naturally to screen size, and filled with information and animated GIFs
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Maple Jar
Approaching mental health in India on a personal, everyday note; meeting people in the privacy of their own homes via phone calls.
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CUFP Workshop
SolvuuThe annual CUFP workshop is designed to serve the growing community of commercial users of functional programming.
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Embassy Industrial Parks
Changing the game around logistics, Embassy Group and Warburg Pincus bring their combined experience to warehousing challenges in a diverse and distributed market like India.
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Healtheminds
Creating a space for mental health counselling which is lacking support and often taboo in India—online software to provide privacy, booking appointments, online chat and phone call sessions.
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Pickle Jar
The Random LinesThe passion project to put more real and honest imagery of India out into the open for widespread use—entirely free-to-use photography representing an Indian view of India.
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Ready to Report
Amnesty InternationalCreate an educational environment comfortable and understanding enough to encourage sharing a connection and discussing a difficult subject—improving the low rate of sex crime reports.
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Young Feminist Wire
AWID Women’s RightsRedesigning to encourage reading and participation—displaying a larger section of their writing, a more dynamic site, and focusing on the faces of change.
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High-level Task Force for ICPD
Updating with stucture intact—retaining seriousness, improving readability and browsing, and showing firm organisation and dependability.
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Goyal Alanoville
Lazaro AdvertisingOnline brochure for the exclusive 75 unit villa development by Goyal & Co in Bangalore. Features extensive detail on the villa types, and location within the community.
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Dasta Concerto
Lazaro AdvertisingRich interactive brochure, extensive pricing calculator and live booking system with a customer relations backend, all wrapped up into a gorgeous application designed by Lazaro Advertising.
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Goyal & Co
Lazaro AdvertisingResidential and commercial builders with a vast portfolio of richly detailed listings—oraganisation, filtering and ease of maintenance and customisation for each project.
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Adappt
Reva InstituteSimplifying repetitive tasks. Creating an application to ease a confusion and excess labor; organising an efficient file system and centralising design control for the brand.
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Toit Brew Pub
PH4 Food & BeverageMarketing without marketing: honestly sharing the love for beer and surrounding culture, showing a passionate understanding deeply lacking in India.
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Travspire
Transparent design open to growth—developing a system rather than a finished product, telling the story and setting the tone rather than selling.
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Peepli
A modular framework for publishing rich-media stories for long-form journalism—graphic design, product design and full-stack development on Wordpress.