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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.


STRATEGY RESEARCH & DESIGN

Ministry of Education New Zealand - coming soon Education | Government | User research | Business case | NZ

Ministry of Education New Zealand
Education | Government | Research | Business case | NZ

ACC Voice Assistant  Healthcare | Government | Sprint | Voice interface | NZ

Healthcare Voice Assistant
Healthcare | Government | Sprint | Voice interface | NZ

Geneo Education | User research | Product strategy | Teachers platform | India
Chemist Co-founder | Online dating | Start up | User research | Product strategy | USA
Airbus Cabin experience | Prototyping and testing | Concept design | USA

Airbus
Cabin experience | Prototyping and testing | Concept design | USA

Blue Bottle Coffee Retail experience | User research | Brand strategy | USA

Ministry for Primary Industries
Climate change | Government | Research | Business case | NZ

Te Papa Museum | Conservation | User testing | Mobile App | NZ

Te Papa Museum
Museum | Conservation | User testing | Mobile App | NZ

VirtuoUS Financial education | NGO | User research | Systems design | USA

Credit Do
Financial education | NGO | User research | Systems design | USA

Rhombus Rumbles Language learning for deaf children | User research | Product strategy | USA
Lectures & Workshops

Lectures & Workshops

Starling Early childhood learning | Start up | User research | Product strategy | NZ
I Did Co-founder | Up-cycling | Product design | Brand strategy | India
Airbnb Brand audit | Product strategy | USA

VISUAL DESIGN

Zariya
Asha for Education | Stanford India Association
Safety on Streets
Stanford Design Impact

PRODUCT DESIGN

Pottery

Pottery

Jewellery

Jewellery

Silversmithing

Silversmithing

Ikebana Vase

Ikebana Vase

Educational Toy
Crystal Clouds
This & That
Just Mehfil
Our Box

ART

Five Minutes
Meet in the Middle
Dictionary of Everyday Interactions
Collaboration
Musing the Mundane
New Medium Explorations