
I call myself a service designer and a researcher because I design complex services, processes, and systems — and research is an important part of that work, both in discovery and in evaluating impact.
Where I work now, service design is a loose but loaded term. It covers changing the ways of working in the organisation, finding ways to create savings, and improving life outcomes for the people we design for — sometimes all at once. I currently lead said function, helping the organisation make sense of complexity and decide what’s genuinely worth building.
Behavioural science, experimentation, and digital transformation all show up in my work, but always in service of practical decisions rather than theory. I enjoy my practice, partly because I can see the impact of what I design, and partly because the structure and rigour it brings to complex problem spaces is deeply satisfying.
Outside of work I enjoy making things with my hands, going for hikes and growing my own food. My latest pet project is learning how to lacto-ferment!
Work
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, UK
Senior Service Designer, Nov 2020 - current
Contract roles - John Hopkins Medicine, NHS
Research Lead, May - Nov 2020
UNDP, New York
Communication Strategy Intern, Sep - Nov 2019
Think Design Collaborative, Mumbai
User Experience Designer, Feb - Aug 2018
Infosys Digital, Bangalore
User Interface Designer, Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Interaction Design Lab, Milan
Interaction Design Intern, Apr - Jun 2017
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project, New Delhi
Design Researcher, Jul - Dec 2016
Education
Master of Arts - Service Design, 2018 - 2020
MIT Institute of Design, India
Bachelors - Product Design, 2012 - 2017
Awards and publications
Liu Ling Scholarship - RCA Service Design
Inaugural scholar, 2018 - 2020
Helen Hamlyn Award for Creativity
Competition winner for project ‘AcrosSilos’, 2020
London Design Awards
Winner ‘Gold’ for project ‘AcrosSilos’, 2020
Talk - Festival of Better Ideas
Using data, behaviours & design to transform local government, 2020
Service design in the public sector, 2022