Gyan Lakhwani
www.gyanl.com · hello@gyanl.com
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Education
- M.Des. Interaction Design
IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, July 2018 - June 2020 - B.Tech. Information Technology
MAIT, IP University Delhi, June 2018
Work Experience
Member at South Park Commons
October 2025 - April 2026
- Exploring AI for Branding
Co-founder at Public Knowledge Studio
January 2025 - August 2026
- Co-founded a design studio for startups, shipping branding and websites across twenty-two projects.
Product Designer II at Microsoft
September 2022 - December 2024
- Worked on product experiences across Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Designer.
Product Designer I at Microsoft
July 2020 - September 2022
- Worked on Voice experiences across the Microsoft Office suite.
Design Intern at Microsoft
June 2019 - July 2019
- Conducted user interviews, created an AI powered prototype for next-step prediction and suggestions in Microsoft To-Do.
Product Design Intern at Zomato
December 2016 - January 2017
- Conducted user research, streamlined data collection processes, redesigned an internal app.
Teaching
Course material for everything I teach is published as open courseware.
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Design & Technology, École Intuit Lab, Delhi August 2026 - December 2026
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Human Factors in Design, École Intuit Lab, Delhi August 2025 - December 2025
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Data Visualisation, Department of Design, Delhi Technological University January 2025 - May 2025
Skills
- UI Design: Figma for mockups, prototyping and design systems.
- UX Research: Quantitative and qualitative user research, usability evaluation, user testing.
- Web Design: HTML, CSS, Javascript.
- Graphic Design: Illustrator for illustrations and graphics, InDesign for print and layouts.
Personal Projects
- Plutonium Sans, April 2018: A playful sans serif typeface inspired by Futura.
- Paisa.tech, August 2017: Designed a proposal for an improved Internet Banking system.
- Faux, March 2017: Designed a chatbot + game to help fight fake news.
Community
- Internship Coordinator, IDC, August 2018: Contacted companies and organized campus internship placements.
- Organiser, Delhi Dribbble Meetup, March 2016: Organised a meetup for designers.
- Moderator, HH Design, July 2015: Moderated a 17,000+ member design community on Facebook.