Good design is not about how it looks or even about how it works. Good design is about how playful it is. You take the ordinary and make it extraordinary. You can make the world more beautiful, more intelligent, more user-friendly, more creative and more delightful.

You don’t need any prior artistic or technical qualifications to dive into User-Experience (UX) Design. Learn how to make UX Design for: 

• Mobile app

• Web-design

• Enterprise software

• Internet of Things (IoT)

 Inspired participants at the UX Design workshop in Bangalore.

 Define the creative vision and direction of your products’ UX if you are a:

• Founder or a Co-founder
• CEO, CTO, CIO
• Vice-President or Senior VP
• Product Manager
  
  

Upgrade your career to the next level if you are a:

• Designer from any discipline
• Front-end Developer
• Learn a new skill which is in much-demand, if you are an:
• Undergraduate or graduate from any discipline 

• Hands-On in Hyderabad as participants sketch mockups.

 Faculty Background: 

• Niyam Bhushan is one of India's leading graphic-design professional with over 34 years of both national and international experience in his areas of specialization in graphic-design, UX Design, and digital creativity.

• He works in various areas of design including:

  • Enterprise software interface design
  • Web-design
  • Mobile-app design
  • Event design
  • Print design
  • Brand design
  • Sound design
  • and more

 Consultant

• As a consultant, He has trained highly-skilled teams of developers, and quality-assurance teams, in the field of digital design and production at Apple, Adobe, Xerox, DK, iFast, IVP. You could view more photos on http://flickr.com/niyam from a few such professional workshops.

 Group photo from the workshop titled: 'Digital Color Theory Workshop by Niyam for Xerox'

• As an approved vendor to Google, Niyam consulted Google on the design and technical specifications for Indian font design, and in the process solved various challenges that confront Indic font design and computing.

•  He conducted several design and production workshops for design professionals at • Living Media for their international projects • Dorling Kindersley, the world's largest publishing house • Thompson Press • as well as for leading ad agencies and publishing houses across India.

•  He has worked on user-interface projects for clients as diverse as European Union (EU), various United Nations agencies, social development agencies, a few Fortune 100 companies; Osho Nisarga; and more.

•  He frequently advises the Government of India on guidelines and recommendations for user-interface design, and also frequently consults with C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)  in various other areas of his specialization as well.

•  His diverse projects include user-interface design for

  • Knowledge-harvesting for the European Union using learning systems
  • Wealth management
  • Fintech
  • Telecom
  • Parenting
  • Education
  • Health & Medical
  • Enterprise software design solutions
  • Mobile services and payment systems
  • Legal services organization
  • UI design solutions for sustainable development organizations
  • Motor sports
  • Travel industry
  • Fashion industry
  • And more

 Design-Mentor for Startups

• More than 100 startups mentored. Niyam also consults and is a design-mentor for several IT start-ups across diverse disciplines, both in design, and in design-think: fin-tech, health, travel, parenting, education, social-commerce, e-commerce, telecom, food-delivery, and more. If you're from one of them, get in touch. 

Trainer

• As a trainer, he has taught over 10,000 people since 1996 in his various fields of expertise. Please check out his http://flickr.com/niyam account for photos from some of his workshops and public seminars.

• He has been a visiting faculty, teaching graphic-design, photography, image-editing, illustration, typography, at:

  • National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
  • School of Convergence 

• Invited to deliver talks across colleges and academia across India including:
  
  

  • NITC Calicut
  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi
  • Thapar University, Patiala
  • Punjabi University, Patiala
  • Pune University, Pune
  • SLIET, Longowal
  • Delhi University
  • Asian Academy of Film & Television, Noida, UP
  • Asian School of Media Studies, Noida, UP
  • Engineering College of Bikaner, Rajasthan
  • Centre-Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mohali
  • Homi Baba Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai
  • RKG Engineering College, Ghaziabad, UP
  • And several dozens more
    
    

Journalist and Editor

• As a journalist and editor, he has also been the

  • Editor of PCWorld Magazine
  • Editor and CEO of Chip Magazine
  • Contributing Editor to Hindustan Times
  • Contributing Editor to Mint newspaper
  • Contributing Editor and Columnist to Linux For You
  • Contributing Editor to Computer Arts Special magazine
  • Check out the vast archive of his technology articles and columns on http://www.niyam.com and more.

He has also frequently been interviewed on Gadgets Guru show on NDTV, and earlier, was often featured on BBC television's 'Click' show from 2000 to 2001.

As a creative professional, Niyam is also a musician and has composed and produced music for a documentary as well as a short film. Find music by 'Niyam Bhushan' on SoundCloud and Jamendo music.