Hi, I'm Madhav

I like breaking down complex problems into simpler manageable parts.

I'm based in
Bengaluru, India and I'm looking for exciting opportunities at design-led companies building consumer-facing products.

Hi, I'm Madhav. I like breaking down complex problems into simpler manageable parts.

I'm based in
Bengaluru, India and I'm looking for exciting opportunities to design engaging experiences.

I'm currently based in Bengaluru, India and I'm looking for exciting opportunities to design engaging experiences.

CASE STUDIES

Work

Explorations

The Quest For Hexaria

This is a board game that I designed for visually impaired persons as part of the project 'Play For All' initiated by Ludic Design for Accessibility at Microsoft Research. It is an adventure-style board game designed for the ages 8-14, where you place hex tiles to build your own path towards the treasure in the centre. It is augmented by cards with raised symbols and a console for each player to park their cards and to read exchange rates at which you could obtain tiles by giving away cards. Check out the complete process booklet.

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Soundscapes

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we all had to suddenly work from home for extended periods of time. That change in work environment gave us a novel chance to understand the components of this mental barrier between work and home, and how that environment conditions us to be in a certain 'headspace'. The soundscapes we're present in often inform our subconscious mood and help us either focus or relax. This is an interactive experience built in p5.js that puts you in a typical office space with the usual sounds around, while being able to adjust the levels of those sounds.

Fractal Art

These are outputs from a Python program I wrote to visualise zoomed-in parts from the Julia set by plotting the real-complex plane and assigning RGB values to each point depending on how those x and y values compute within the expression that defines the set. The colour palettes can be tweaked to an extent by tweaking the weightage of red, green and blue values from the output of the mathematical expression.

About Me

I'm Madhav, a 25-year-old designer originally from Chennai, India. I completed my Bachelor's in Human Centered Design from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru. As I could navigate my curriculum freely, in these 4 years I got to work on projects from various fields apart from my major - game design, creative coding, brand strategy, data visualisation, typography and even embroidery!

My design process heavily focuses on research and iteration - the former sets the context for the project and the latter pushes the work to its best possible version. I genuinely get excited to hear what the intended audience has to say when I ask them questions or put a prototype in their hand - because up until that point all my assumptions and decisions were unvalidated and this feedback richly informs my next step.

I'm currently learning to play the bass guitar, rediscovering my love for science fiction books and shows, and I've spent way too much time trying to grow vegetables in my balcony garden. 😅