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  Gamified Design Classroom Gamified Teaching and Mentoring Gamified teaching and learning is a requirement of GenZ design learners. A design educator has to understand the mindset of GenZ; and, then needs to plan assignments and projects for the design classrooms. As a design educator, please try to understand the difference between teaching and mentoring. Traditional instructors generally try to deploy the learning contents among all students and try to evaluate their learnings without considering many important factors such as students' background, students' mindset, learning environment, motivational factors, etc. A true mentor starts understanding the student's lifestyle, aids the individual requirements of students, and takes care of different abilities and learning attitudes. Mentors always motivate students in various ways. Gamification in learning is the contemporary practice of design mentors in design classrooms, however, educational games are very common in play...

 Are You Confused With Your Carrer?  If you are confused with your career, it's worth reading the book titled - Designing User Interface of a Decision Support System for Career Choice About This Book:   In this book, the main aim is to highlight the pain point of a student’s/ emerging adult’s life of planning a career, decisions taken during career choices, and many aspects of life that are connected with career planning. With a proper strategy career planning and the attainment of career-satisfaction are observed because one wrong choice can bring so many obstacles which can make the candidate anxious, stress, and many other feelings which can have adverse consequences. So, after serving a large audience, and analysing students’ behaviour with their problem, and also checking out all the applications available in the app store generalizing their features and where the app is lagging.      This book has suggested an application that will use the SRK Framewo...

  Telemedicine app ‘Spotdoc’ By Dr. Anirban Chowdhury We have designed an Interface of a Telemedicine Application to Anticipate the COVID-19 Scenario. Me and my student Ms. Lalmani Kumari have initiated a work on telemedicine in early 2018. Later we (me and my student Ambika) have revived the project and revised the design during initial phase of COVID-19 pandemic. People might have panic to visit hospitals/clinics for any other medical issue due to fear to have a COVID-19 infection. Telemedicine might be an alternative option in such a scenario. Telemedicine enables the treatment of diseases from remote locations. Doctors can go for health checkups and provide remedies to the patient for diseases. Though there are few applications available in the market for the same but there are many drawbacks such as Heart Rate (HR) monitoring, Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring, prescribing medicine based on availability of medicine in local pharmacy, online medicine order option etc. Therefore, t...

Indian Political Cartoons Indian society changed after digitalization and economical reformation. Currently, Facebook is the most popular social media in India. The political cartoonist took that platform as an opportunity to share their thoughts and raise socio-political issues through their cartoons. The aim of the paper is to study responses (likingness and affective) to political cartoons in respect to responsiveness towards cartoons, gender, and socio-economic status. The study was conducted among 875 Indians from different parts of India including males and females with various socio-economic backgrounds. The data was captured in the form of sentiments (love, sadness, anger, and happiness emotions) for each cartoon is shared in the Facebook timeline. Then, relevant descriptive statistics were computed using IBM SPSS 20.0 software. Results showed that maximum Facebook users expressed their thoughts about political cartoons through emoticons in terms of like, sad, angry, and happin...

☝  History of Design in India  ☝ Although the history of art is quite old in India, nobody properly holds faith in the history of design in India. There are different schools of thought for Indian design history. Before I am going to explain the different schools of thought for Indian design history, it's better to understand what's design. In this context, I came across a few interesting definitions of design. These are -  " Design is the Design for the Design by a Design "   The meanings of these four designs are different. The meaning of the first design is a scientific discipline. The second design refers to the plan. The third stands for product or service/software or intangible products. The fourth design means problem-solving processes.  The design discipline can be defined as a highly interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field of study which amalgamates the arts, science, engineering, and technology. A good designer is a good thinker and a problem sol...

Why User Experience is Important for Breastfeeding Equipment? UX is the feelings of target users to a particular context about the usage of products    UXD is the strategy to improve the existing situation to a preferred one considering UX factors/ Human Factors to provide an optimum user experience. UX / Human Factors:  Safety and Risk Comfort Easy of Use Usefulness Learnability of User Interface (UI) Functionality Materials and Fabrics Aesthetics (Look and Feel) Cognition and Emotions UX is important in different scenarios:  Scenario 1: Body Aches (Low back pain/ Neck pain/ Arm pain etc.) Scenario 2: Biting in nipple / allergenic response surrounding nipple due less breastfeeding or other                          clinical Scenario 3: Feeding baby during travel  or outside the home  Scenario 4: Diarrhea due to bad plastic containers  Fig. 1 User Experience Design Aspects of ...

 Are You Creative? We believe everybody is creative; however, the level of creativity differs. Designers, engineers, poets, scientists, writers, animators; all are creative. Even the common man is also creative. Levels of creativity vary from individual to individual. Let's try the following android application to check the level of your creative mindset. Fig. 1 Landing Screen of Creative App. Fig. 2 Creativity Score Displayed in the Creative App. This AI based app not only helps people to aware of their creativity level but also suggests how to level up their creative skills through nurturing the practices upon various creative traits.  Click here to Download   the Creative Mobile App (only available on Android in this website).