Arpit Ranka's Portfolio – Arpit Ranka's Design Portfolio

I'm Arpit Ranka.

I'm a multi-disciplinary designer, creative thinker and an energetic collaborator that thrives on user-centered solutions and sweating meaningful details.

I enjoy working with cross-functional teams to produce scalable and integrated outcomes for complex business problems.

Currently, I'm a User Experience Designer on the award winning CTO UX team at Motorola Solutions.

I've designed participated instructed here :

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Case studies -

Designing a safer, user-centric experience

UX Research | Collaboration | UX Design | Iteration | User Testing

CONFIDENTIAL : At Motorola Solutions, as part of the CTO-UX team, I redesigned an acquisition - to fulfill business goals by integrating it into product ecosystem and meet user needs by providing safe, mission-critical, industry-leading end-to-end solution across government, public safety, and enterprise verticals.

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Designing a online learning experience

UX Design | User Research | Ideation | Prototyping | User testing

This is the semester-long group project for my User Experience Design class at NYU Steinhardt. I applied HCD methods, UX and HCI principles including conducting user research, synthesizing findings into insights, ideating, sketching, prototyping, and iterating based on user feedback.

Designing for Tech Equity in the Bronx

Human-Centered Design | Design Research | Co-design

I was a designer on NYU's DFA(Design for America) team in collaboration with DreamYard. This was an year-long educative undertaking guided by design mentors, co-designing with school kids and being critiqued monthly by expert NYC designers.

Challenging dogma and designing a user-centric website

UI Design | Design Facilitation | Interaction Design | Accessibility

I led NYU Prison Education Program's website redesign. This was a great exercise in visual design, working with multiple stakeholders whilst adhering to web accessibility standards. I also facilitated PEP's incarcerated students in designing a webpage and evangelized user-centered Web design.

Prototyping for an eco-conscious lifestyle

Systems Design | Ideation | Rapid Prototyping | Storytelling

Here I have listed all the projects for my Ideation and Prototyping class. I expanded my arsenal of design and research skills, learnt how to think critically about my audience, content, form, and processes, as well as, understood the importance of utilizing more than one research and design strategy.

Designing an immersive game

Immersive Design | Rapid Prototyping | Playtesting | Storytelling

In my Game Design class, I learnt design practices and principles by which minimal games can be conceived, prototyped, and fully developed within months. I understood what makes games appealing, and how game mechanics, systems, audiovisuals, and a variety of player experiences can be designed and iteratively improved by means of rapid prototyping and playtesting.

Establishing online presence for a Venture Design studio

Visual Design | Interaction Design | Accessibility | Branding

I solely designed and launched NYU Stern's Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship's website. I made Berkley's communication more consistent, usable, expressive and accessible across all mediums.

Testimonials :

With his savvy web design skills, strong attention to detail, ability to think outside the box and solutions oriented mentality, Arpit was a tremendous help and asset to our Center's website overhaul and revamp process. Arpit also has the desire to push himself outside of his comfort zone to learn new skills and lessons along the way.

Shayna Gaskins Assistant Director, Berkley Center for Entreperenurship

Arpit had the uncanny ability to develop design strategies that resonated with our many stakeholder groups. His style is consultative and collaborative which resulted in him exceeding our expectations project after project, almost always under extremely tight deadlines and with a zen-like calmness! He's smart, creative, and a pleasure to work with.

Cynthia Franklin Director, Berkley & Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern

I wanted to properly thank you for the fruitful semester. Your contagious energy made our classes even better. It is so nice to work with people that are as engaged as you are on [entrepreneurship]. The help/support you gave to [our team] was amazing. I really appreciate everything you did for us. You made all of our team so happy with your kind, informative emails.

Sofia

Business Undergrad, NYU Stern