I stumbled into teaching a data visualisation course in Jan 2025. I had just quit my job as a product designer at Microsoft, and I wanted to do all of the things I felt a full-time job made it hard to do. After asking around, I found that the Department of Design at DTU had an opening for a guest faculty to teach a semester long course on Data Visualisation. I said yes, and then found myself poring over notebooks from college, finding some long-forgotten notes from workshops I had attended, a...| Gyan Lakhwani
I didn’t want to implement rate limiting, so I have $10 in my OpenAI account and this project will stop working when the credits run out. You can fork it yourself and run it on Vercel using the details on the Github project| Gyan Lakhwani
The Delhi chapter of Friends of Figma organised a Config 2025 Watch Party at the Microsoft office in Noida. Charu and I presented a talk on what we felt portfolios should do, and our process for designing our own portfolio at publicknowledge.co. Along the way we looked at a number of other portfolio sites from early, mid and late career designers, as well as some other design studios.| Gyan Lakhwani
DDS is the Annual Design Degree Showcase at the Department of Design, IIT Delhi. Charu and I conducted a workshop that talked about how we’ve adopted AI tools into our workflows, and some suggestions for how to avoid the cookie-cutter responses you’ll get from LLMs unless you are specific enough with your prompts.| Gyan Lakhwani
This website documents some of the material I shared with students as part of the DD325: Data Visualization elective I am teaching at Department of Design, Delhi Technological University in Jan-May 2025.| Gyan Lakhwani
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Microsoft UX Day 2024 celebrated “The AI Moment”, and brought together the design community to discuss and learn more about this revolutionary new technology that is changing the field of product design. This year, we opened our doors to the larger design community, allowing them to join us live for this exciting occasion across Microsoft offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Noida.| Gyan Lakhwani