Product Designer at Cisco

Akshay Parakh  • Peerlist

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

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

Character Creation

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

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

Simpsons - Frame Animation

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

Pixel Art Explorations

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

Minimal Advertisements

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

Product Exploded View Exploration

This project was all about redesign an intranet portal named MySpace for MAQ Software, a Hyderabad-based firm specializing in data visualization.

MySpace Redesign

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

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

Front facing character walk-cycle created using Flash. Designed to be a part of a 2D gameplay.

Batman - Front Walk Cycle

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

Illustration Explorations

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

Design Suite

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

'Akshar' - Typeface Creation

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)

Building a compilation of prioritized backlog and associated user stories for Ballantine Hall at Indiana University Bloomington as part of the Product Management course elective.

Product Management - Prioritized Backlog and User Stories

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

Logo Design Collection

A native application (iOS and Android) for HelloDhobi, a startup that specializes in on-demand laundry services.