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Sunali
Aggarwal
New Media
National Institute of Design
Paldi, 380007
Ahmedabad
sunali@nid.edu
sunaliaggarwal@hotmail.com
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Objective
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Diploma Project in New Media for duration of 4-6 months
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Executive Summary
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My training at Srijan Technologies Pvt.
Ltd., helped me understand the use of a business solution such as a
corporate website or a software application in context of the business
concerns objectives of the company/organization.
This has given me an insight into approaching a business solution keeping
in mind not only the experience of an end-user (which I primarily learnt
during my education) but also understand and address the business requirement.
This required an understanding of technology tools available and their
constraints.
The principles of Information Architecture and Cognitive Psychology
came into practical use to ensure better user experience and its integration
with design. The hands on experience that I have gained has made me
aware and equipped to deal with practical problems faced in day-to-day
work environment.
With this experience and the other work that I have done,
I am better equipped to take up a Diploma project.
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Educational Qualifications
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Post Graduation
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Post Graduate Diploma Programme in New Media from National
Institute of Design Ahmedabad
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Graduation
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Bachelors
of Commerce from
Government College for Girls Sec-11 Chandigarh (Punjab University)
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School
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Sacred High School Chandigarh, till 10th
Standard
Bhavan Vidayalaya Chandigarh, 10+2
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Industrial Training
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Training with Srijan
Technologies New Delhi
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Projects Completed
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Srijan Website:
Srijan is into building bespoke software applications, website
design and development, and E-Business solutions for customers
in India and abroad. The website they earlier had was poor on
design as well as the information structuring and presentation.
Srijan was aware of that, but did not know a better way around.
The variety of applications that they had done was quite large.
The challenge therefore, was to work with the customer in identifying
the key focus areas of the company, restricting the number of
highlighted projects by classifying the domain areas, and structuring
information to address their need of catering to both offshore
and domestic customers.
I closely worked with the Graphic Designer, and the Managing Director
of the company in creating a highly effective navigation structure,
while meeting their design and business requirements respectively.
CISCE portal:
Council for the School Certificate Examinations, one of the two
National Examination Boards in India.
At the time the website was designed, it was not clear
how it would evolve. The content on the website, during the past
2 years of maintenance grew immensely. The articles published,
in most sections, were difficult to find and reach. The portal
was designed without anticipating the content that would be required
to manage in future. The design and structure was not able to
accommodate the growing number of articles and sections. Also
the design did not highlight new articles that were being posted.
It also lacked consistency and visual interest.
My challenge was to redesign the portal and achieve the dual objectives
of scalability and visual appeal.
The New portal
that was launched in May 2003 has been made keeping in mind all
the above addresses the drawbacks in the previous website.problems.
The design is visually appealing and has plenty of room for introduction
of new sections and articles. The portal is now more organised
and structured and with an intuitive easy to navigatatione. Srijan,
and personally I, have got immense appreciation from the customer.
Srijan also has appreciated my work, skill and dedication immensely.
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Ongoing Projects
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Project Management Application:
The idea was to design an a Project Management/Time Sheet Management
application for small and medium sized organizations businesses,
which incorporates a Time Sheet, Task Manager, Project Planner,
Proposal Costing and Organization Resource Manager.
Through this application the Project
Manager can easily assign tasks to his/her team and monitor the
team’s efficiency. The challenge was to design an application
which would be user-friendly, so as to address the concern of
Srijan - that "people should not spend a large proportion
of time filling in their Time Sheet".
I designed the screens of the application, which allowed
quicker trapping of time spent on each task. A critical aspect
during this design was to understand technological possibilities
and limitations. A team member is also relieved of filling in
unnecessary fields and keeping track of time. The time taken for
a person to complete a task is automatically trapped by the appliaction.
The application is being developed in Java. The screen design
has helped the development team understand and size the application
better.
Website for Dr.K.K. Aggarwal
Website for Heart Care foundation Of India
Website for IJCP Group of Publications
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Other Projects
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Flash Animation for Srijan Logo
Website Review for
Travel World Tours, San Francisco
Website Review for
COFMOW (Central Organisation For Modernsation Of Workshops)
Website
for Granoverseas
Website for
Perfect Health Mela
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Courses in New Media
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Interface Design
Instructional Design
Systems Design
Human Computer Interaction
Cognitive Psychology
Storytelling
Digital Art
Cross Cultural Design
Visual Thinking
User Study
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Computer Skills
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Adobe
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Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Pagemaker
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Macromedia
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Dreamweaver,
Director, Flash
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Microsoft
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Word, Power Point, Visio Drawing, Excel
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Corel
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Draw
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Personal
Details
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Date of Birth
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11th April 1980
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Interests
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Sports
( Golf, Table Tennis, Pool, Cricket), Music, Movies, Travelling
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Permanent Address
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H.no: 190
Sector: 6
Panchkula 134109
Haryana
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Phone
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0172-560727, 0172-562088
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