PANKHUDI

KANWAR
user experience design
strategist

portfolio: pankhurikanwar.com
kanwp639@newschool.edu

Recognized, awarded and

published innovator. User
experience designer skilled in
Prototyping tools and Adobe
Creative Suite with an
international experience in
branding. Skilled strategist
with professional experience in
conceptualising and
developing products, designed
to enhance the human
experience. Bilingual in Hindi.

EDUCATION

Parsons The New School for

Design 2015-2017
MS.Strategic design &
management

WORK EXPERIENCE

XRC Labs Summer Fellowship, NYC 2016

supported by Harvard University Innovation Lab
(2-4 hr sprints) working with an accelerator
helping startups disrupt consumer goods and
the retail sector
Huddle Up app development at GA, NYC 2015
Prototyped a social dating app while iterating
on the business strategy and introducing
features making the app collaborative in nature

SOFTWARE SKILL-BASE

Invision . Adobe InDesign +

Photoshop + Illustrator . Sketch

HACKATHON

NYC Service Design Jammer

3 days, 2016
Prototyped & further developing an
app to help the refugee crisis

Non- Profit Organization + Parsons, NYC 2015

Suggested a change in the brand image for a
sexual and reproductive educational org.
prototyping an app

Hackolloborate NYC 12 hrs, 2016

Designed an app to gamify
donations for social causes

UN Innovation lab + Parsons, NYC 2015

Curating a set of tools to initiate a leadership
change within a hierarchical organisational
structure.

RESEARCH + PUBLICATIONS

Fenny G design studio, Mumbai, India 7months

2014 - 2015
Junior Product Designer for lifestyle
products exported to the European market

Verge NYC by Parsons, The New

School for Design 2016
Documented Elasticity in Public
Spaces for school booklet
Craft Cluster Initiative
Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India
7 months 2012
Offered design interventions for the
craft
Published Kheelauna, a thesis on
handicrafts of Channapatna (toy
town), India

General Assembly 10 weeks, 2016

User Experience Design
Immersive

Studio Abd design studio, India 5 month 2014

Graduation Project Internship
Award: Recognized for the Most Innovative
Graduation Project by National Institute of
Fashion Technology, Bangalore

National Institute of Fashion

Technology, Bangalore 2010- 2014
Bachelor of Design in Fashion &
Lifestyle accessory design

Ecowood Decore (I) Pvt. Ltd, Raipur, India

2 months 2013
Summer Internship in modular kitchen
manufacturing and supply chain management

Centre for Knowledge Societies

Bangalore, India 2012
Conducted user centric research on
colour story for summer 2013
forecast

NOTEWORTHY PROGRAMS

FREELANCE PROJECTS

COMMUNITY SERVICE

3H Summer School, Auroville

Green Practices, India 2014
Sustainable design workshop
From Cradle to Cradle; Building
for Responsible Consumption

Habitat Task Force, PATH, NYC 2016

Professional Alliance for Technology & Habitat
Concept paper graphics and content to be
presented at the American Institute of
Architecture (AIA)

Technical assistance: CCDU (Communication

and Capacity Development Unit), Chhattisgarh
State Water and Sanitation Mission, Govt. of
India

La Meridiana School of Ceramics

Tuscany, Italy 3 weeks 2012
Porcelain manipulations + Raku
firing techniques

Gabon Premier Papier Suarl, Gabon 2016

Branding and packaging design for paper
products

Human Factors International,

Iowa, USA (Classes in India) 2014
Certified Usability Analyst

Manorama Group of Industries, India 2015

Branding and content development for trade
fairs in Korea, Beijing and India

Swacch Jal by SODIS method,

Raipur, India 2 months 2014
Increase awareness for Water
disinfection through Solar Energy
initiative

Poetry in Motion
Dance and drama troupe 2012
Fundraising musical Dastan-ELaila Majnu for Ashanilaya, an
orphanage in Bangalore