Dr. Design – Design Office Hours Meetup in Hyderabad on March 25, 2015

Dr. Design - Design Office Hours Meetup in Hyderabad on March 25, 2015

Design for Fit, Finish and Completeness of Startup Products

A seminar by Hysea and IIIT-H CIE on how design helps startups. Stage at which they must engage designers. Importance of design thinking and customer connection. How all these leads to revenue. And role that incubators play in this process. With inspiring keynote by Dr.PJ Narayanan of IIIT-H and insights from the design firms engaged with startups, and n interaction with HY10 startups (Hyderabad’s Hot 10 startups 2015). On sidelines of launching the Design Office Hours program by Hysea and CIE.

Agenda:

11am: Welcome- Brig.Hari Kumar, Executive Director Hysea
11:10 Design Context for startups. – Ramesh Loganathan, President Hsyea
11:20: Keynote talk: Dr.PJ Narayanan
Sharing insights on how academic incubators help take research from labs into market ready products. The how design thinking, ux designers, visual designers and software architects converge in delivering this process.
11:45 Short panel discussion on Design Thinking for startups. by Karthi Subbaraman (Founder/Chief Design Officer, Oghma Designs) and Ripul Kumar (Founder, Kern-UX). Followed, by the duo interacting with HY10 startups on their design approach
12:25 Launch of Design office Hours by Hysea & IIIT-H CIE. Introduce the program, Srikanth Rangavajhala, lead Designer, Progress India
12:30 Best Incubator Award to IIIT-H, by Ex-President, Hysea
12:30 Press meet by Dr.PJ Narayanan and Ramesh Loganathan
1:00 Lunch

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