Hello, my name is Gyan Lakhwani. I am a designer and a nerd, and this website is a place for me to document my thoughts and try out experiments with code. If you find something broken (which is likely because I am constantly trying out things), please tweet at me @gyanl.
A photo of me
Work
I was a founding designer at Public Knowledge Studio, a design agency for startups. Previously, I worked as a product designer at Microsoft, where I worked on Voice experiences across Microsoft Office Suite, and then later on Product Experiences across Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Designer.
Teaching
I started teaching in 2025 as an extension of my design practice. I document my course materials on course microsites as open courseware for my students and for anyone else who might like to take a look.
2025
Data Visualisation at Department of Design, Delhi Technological University.
Ergonomics at Ecole Intuit Lab, Delhi
2026
Technology & Design at Ecole Intuit Lab, Delhi
Education
I have a Master’s degree in Interaction Design from IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and a Bachelor’s degree in IT Engineering from IP University, Delhi.
Website
This website is a Jekyll blog hosted on GitHub Pages. I wrote a custom CSS theme that has dark and light mode support, accent color variables, as well as nice typography. There is some documentation in my GitHub if you want to try using this theme.