Product Designer at Cisco

Akshay Parakh  • Peerlist

Initial experiments to create a frame-by-frame animation of Homer Simpson.

Simpsons - Frame Animation

Understanding iOS Design Guidelines by decoding and reverse-engineering the iOS Grid System based on Golden Ratio and recreating iOS 7 icons from scratch.

Exploring iOS Grid System

A tribute to Dieter Rams, the father of industrial design. This typography art piece is a cumulitive of Dieter Ram's 10 commandments of good design.

Dieter Rams - Typo Art

Exploring various steps of creating a character right from forming a anatomy structure to adding features and clothing.

Character Creation

Exploring minimalism as a medium to convey ideas and visuals that can be incorporated into advertisement deliverables.

Minimal Advertisements

Initial attempts at designing a devanagari typeface in order to learn the nuances of typography.

'Akshar' - Typeface Creation

Rendering real life products using a digital medium to get a sense of how physical form affects highlight and shadow regions.

Product Rendering

A feasible solution for cab companies to monitor and analyze patterns of cab routes and make sure that traffic rules are being followed in order to put customer's safety prior to anything else.

Traffic Management Systems

First attempt at creating a custom boot animation. This has been edited frame-by-frame and compiled in Flash. Inspired by Android 5.0

Custom Android Boot Animation

Logo designs for Arham Estates, a Nashik-based real estate firm and an independtly-organized Indo-Greek summit respectively.

Logo Design Collection

This project contains:1. Self experiences that left an impact on me by targetting my 5 senses in order to enhance the User Experience.2. User Persona: An exploration case study regarding likes and dislikes of a specific user and understanding factors that incline him towards buying a certain product over the others and how these tendencies can be kept in mind while coming up with future design solutions.3. A basic town planning & transit system redesign for Viman Nagar, Pune, India.

User Experience Case Study- Human Senses, Self Experiences &

A case study that covers analysis on how cold and dry climatic regions like Leh and Ladakh influence the architectural patterns and portrayal of design solutions with the help of illustrations of the south overhang.

Case Study: Architecture In Cold & Dry Regions

Exploded views of iPhone 5S showcasing the nuances that go into Product Design.

Product Exploded View Exploration

Initial attempts at reproducing artworks made by various artists as a practice of the pen tool.

Illustration Explorations

Initial experimentation and explorations with the 8-bit pixel artform.

Pixel Art Explorations

Intranet system redesign concept for Symbiosis Institute of Design, developed from scratch.

Symbiosis Institute of Design - Intranet App

Exploring the traditionally fabric dying process named Batik on 10x10 cutouts.

Tie, Dye and Batik

A UX Design Suite for professionals to make their workflow and documentation process faster than ever before.

Design Suite

This paper includes valuable reflections based on Part 1 of the book Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan with respect to my take on the flaws within the waterfall project management process, key takeaways and learnings from the reading.

Product Management - Reflection Paper - Inspired (Part 1)

Initial attempts at making an animated character of Steve Jobs in a side walk-cycle.