Hi, I’m Rithwik. I’m a hacker and a designer.
About
I like solving wicked problems. Designer who writes code, my hobby is making bits and atoms misbehave.
In the past, I’ve founded and run a studio called Clay Gorilla to do good design.
Background
Nov 2023—June 2024
June 2022—Sept 2023
May 2021—Aug 2021
June 2019—July 2019
2018—2022
Past Work
Aerotime (YC 21)
Jan 2023—July 2023
Aerotime created a revolutionary way to manage time for builders to eliminate distractions and work in flow.
Worked closely with the founding team to craft the future of time management.
At Clay Gorilla, we shaped product direction, strategy and design for Aerotime's application.
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Wifi Dabba is creating superpowered routers for the future of the internet. By turning routers into a validator nodes, each router becomes a device that can provide distributed compute.
Worked closely with the founding team to help turn their vision into reality.
At Clay Gorilla, we created an industrial design language for Wifi Dabba and drove the design for Wifi Dabba’s first product line.
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Pista
May 2023—July 2023
Pista was an early stage product that to help product managers derive insights from the mountains of feedback that their teams receive on a daily basis.
At Clay Gorilla, we defined strategy and turned interviews with customers into product features and enhancements to drive growth of a product early in its lifecycle.
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One By Zero is a Machine Learning and AI services company.
Servicing clients across the Asia–Pacific region, they provide highly customized solutions for their clients.
At Clay Gorilla, we crafted a visual identity for One By Zero's AI solutions as well as creating a website for One By Zero.
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Carret Investments
Aug 2022—Nov 2022
Carret is a crypto investment platform that wanted to reposition themselves to be the best choice for long term crypto investors in India.
At Clay Gorilla, we defined strategy, direction and redesigned an MVP to make it more appealing to young crypto investors.
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Braille Slate for Mathematics
Jan 2020—July 2020
Most visually impaired high school children in India drop math after middle school because they lack funds to purchase RBDs and tooling to enable them to pursue STEM education further.
Upgraded the Braille slate, a no–tech device with high usage amongst the VI community, to allow math to be written and read back effortlessly.
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Clothing for Patients with Parkinson's
Aug 2021—June 2022
Patients with Parkinson's have always had to rely on unaffordable adaptive clothing or resort to wearing ill–fitting garments due to their loss of fine motor control.
Developed EasyFit, with patients in Guwahati, to enable them to independently dress themselves.
It replaces existing fasteners in shirts, kurtas, sleeves and pants.
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Fundal Reflex Screening Camera
June 2019
For many Indians, an eye checkup is an appointment that is never made.
Cataracts, retinoblastomas etc. are all conditions that have better prognoses when detected early, especially in young children.
Designed Forus' screening camera that leveraged the property of the red eye reflex .
The captured images are evaluated at scale with machine intelligence to detect issues early on.
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Abhilasha Teacher Training
May 2019
Abhilasha was a design workshop conducted at IIT Guwahati to introduce high school children to design and help them think more critically.
In 2019, a special session was conducted to introduce teachers to design thinking and how it ties in with teaching.
As part of this workshop, we created supporting assets in the form of flash cards, to inspire teachers to teach with activities and showing them how to bridge play and curriculum objectives.
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