Hello, I'm Siladityaa Sharma. I'm a tech nerd with a computer science background, a designer that loves to express my ideas visually. I’m inspired by music, sci-fi movies, video games and like to call my design process “experiments”. From wild conceptualization and ideation to realistic, accessible solutions, I want to make the unfeasible, feasible. Experimentation with prototyping and testing is a way for me to see how my designs interact with people and their senses. Considering future tech, its implications, opportunities, and feasibility has shown me that my path in Interaction Design needs to be firmly rooted in ethics. Whenever I design, people come first.
Education
ArtCenter College of Design - Bachelors of Science + Business Minor (Class of 2021)
May 2020 - September 2020
UX Designer and Developer Intern
Completed multiple client projects simultaneously while being a part of important design decision meetings.
Created highly responsive UI layouts in order to increase the scope of outreach and accessibility for the clients.
Established a strong brand presence for a client by using an amalgamation of motion design and web development. Led to a lightweight yet highly branded and easy to use web presence.
Explored data visualization techniques for UCLA’s Diversity Inclusion Labs
May 2020 - July 2020
Research Assistant
Hosted in ArtCenter’s Immersion Lab and created in collaboration with Snap Inc. Research, BBC Research, and Microsoft Research, Machine Envisioned Stories is a research studio that explores the next phase of narrative design using cameras, machine vision, machine learning, augmented reality, and game development software.
Achieved success in creating accurate machine learning models that can generate love/ breakup songs for the experiment
Composed music using a Deep Learning composer which was manipulated in a DAW. Prototyped the UX flows in Unity for user testing and interactivity.
September 2019 - January 2020
Interaction Designer
Increased attention for the previously closed International Congress Center by projection mapping on the front of the building.
Analyzed the repositioning of the ideology of families as a global community, with the metaphor of Constellation, as well as by leveraging future-proof technology to facilitate conversations.