My name is Kanhika. I’m a design researcher and artist from Mumbai and California, currently spreading my creative roots in Wellington, New Zealand.
For my day job — by listening to the stories people tell and observing them in their everyday, I identify and help them solve their problems. I design digital experiences, services, and products by keeping the people we're design for at the centre of the process.
My night passion is my art and craft work. Through my artwork, I urge people to slow down and pay attention to the little things in their lives — especially since so much of contemporary life focuses on spectacle. I mainly work with ethnography, performance art, and videography as my medium. I have recently gotten back to making jewellery and working with ceramics.
This website is a curation of the different work I enjoy doing.
EXPERIENCE DESIGN & RESEARCH
Te Papa
Museum | Conservation | User testing | Mobile App | NZ
Geneo
Education | User research | Product strategy | Teachers platform | India
ACC Voice Assistant
Healthcare | Government | Sprint | Voice interface | NZ
Ministry of Education New Zealand - coming soon
Education | Government | User research | Business case | NZ
Airbus
Cabin experience | Prototyping and testing | Concept design | USA
Chemist
Co-founder | Online dating | Start up | User research | Product strategy | USA
Blue Bottle Coffee
Retail experience | User research | Brand strategy | USA
VirtuoUS
Financial education | NGO | User research | Systems design | USA
Rhombus Rumbles
Language learning for deaf children | User research | Product strategy | USA
I Did
Co-founder | Up-cycling | Product design | Brand strategy | India
Starling
Early childhood learning | Start up | User research | Product strategy | NZ
Lectures & Workshops
Airbnb
Brand audit | Product strategy | USA
VISUAL DESIGN
Zariya
Asha for Education | Stanford India Association
Safety on Streets
Stanford Design Impact
CERAMICS & PRODUCT DESIGN
Pottery
Jewellery
Silversmithing
Ikebana Vase
Educational Toy
Crystal Clouds
This & That
Just Mehfil
Our Box
PERFORMANCE ART
Five Minutes
Meet in the Middle
Dictionary of Everyday Interactions
Collaboration
Musing the Mundane
New Medium Explorations