Ritwik Dey

Current

• Senior Interaction Designer at R/GA

Past

• Interaction Designer at R/GA
• Associate Interaction Designer at R/GA
• Interaction/Information Designer at Parsons Institute for Information Mapping

• Teaching Assistant at Parsons School of Design
• Design Instructor at Parsons School of Design
• Senior Designer at Inkprints & Emages
• User Interface Designer/Software Trainee at Larsen & Toubro Infotech

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Education

• Parsons School of Design
• University of Mumbai

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Industry

Design

Websites

• ritwikdey.com
• R/GA

Ritwik Dey’s Summary

I started my design career with print design and advertising. Since my days in engineering college, I have been trying to combine design and technology to create meaningful communication pieces and giving life to conceptual projects.

I've taught design and information architecture, developed visual representations of complex data sets, created code-based visualization projects and designed online interaction environments to meet specific strategic and design goals.

I'm actively involved in several non-profit ventures for social causes, espcecially in India. I intend to use my expertise in design and technology to execute projects that will impact environmental/nature conservation efforts.

Ritwik Dey’s Specialties:

Verbal and visual communication, design pedagogy, information architecture/design/visualization, concept development.

Ritwik Dey’s Experience

• Senior Interaction Designer

  R/GA

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2008 — Present (4 months)

• Interaction Designer

  R/GA

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 10 months)

• Associate Interaction Designer

  R/GA

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

• Interaction/Information Designer

  Parsons Institute for Information Mapping

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  Information and interface design for software applications, tools for knowledge workers. Designing data structures for huge amounts of complex information repositories and building easy-to-understand visual representations.

• Teaching Assistant

  Parsons School of Design

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — December 2005 (4 months)

  Assisted Prof Christopher Kirwan in developing content and teaching the graduate-level Information Architecture course. Curriculum included understanding concepts of information spaces, navigation, interface, taxonomy development.

• Design Instructor

  Parsons School of Design

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2005 — September 2005 (2 months)

  Developed curriculum and taught a month-long intensive training course - Bootcamp - for incoming graduate students to the Design & Technology department at Parsons. Curriculum included fundamentals of graphic design, time-based media, technology, information visualization.

• Senior Designer

  Inkprints & Emages

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 3 months)

  Develpoed concepts and designs for print advertising and publications. Worked closely with both Creative Director and Copywriter, defined strategies for campaigns and concepts for publications. Did extensive pre-press production.

• User Interface Designer/Software Trainee

  Larsen & Toubro Infotech

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2002 — July 2003 (11 months)

  I worked as the User Interface designer on a four-person software development team. The software prototype developed was a CD anti-piracy tool called RAVeN Shield. The development process spanned 8 months and partially fulfilled graduation reguirements for my engineering degree.

Ritwik Dey’s Education

• Parsons School of Design

  Master of Fine Arts, Design & Technology, 2004 — 2006

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, 1999 — 2003

Additional Information

Ritwik Dey’s Websites:

• ritwikdey.com
• R/GA

Ritwik Dey’s Interests:

Information visualization and design, interaction design, deep ecology, gaia hypothesis, applied mathematics, environmental conservation, social endeavours, sketching, singing, spanish acoustic guitar, photography, film, reading.

Ritwik Dey’s Groups:

Greenpeace, New York Computer-Human Interaction Group, Union of Concerned Scientists, AidIndia.org, PVPP Alumni, Parsons Alumni

•    R/GA
•    Multimedia, Print and Web Publishing Technologies

Ritwik Dey’s Honors:

Homi Bhabha Young Scientist Award (1992)
Bombay Natural History Quotient Winner (1995)
Dorabji Tata Trust Scholarship (2000)
Tata Scholarship - JN Tata Endowment & Dorabji Tata Trust (2004)

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