About

Design Generalist with 4+ years of experience leading UX, AI-enabled workflows, product, and experiential design across enterprise systems, learning environments, and emerging media.

I'm Aman Chandra, based in India. I bring a research-led, systems-thinking approach to shaping intelligent, scalable, and user-centred experiences. My work sits at the intersection of UX, AI, game design, and education design — and I'm equally comfortable defining research strategy as I am building a working prototype.

Currently, I lead studio courses across UI/UX, visual design, moving image, advanced photography, and data visualisation at MIT Institute of Design, MIT ADT University.

I've also published research on video games and ontological design (ICoRD '23, Springer), spoken at WIPRO's internal design series, and mentored 50+ undergraduate and postgraduate students through their final projects.

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Experience

Oct 2025 – present

Assistant Professor

MIT Institute of Design, MIT ADT University — Pune, MH

  • Leading studio courses across UI/UX, visual design, moving image, advanced photography, design methods, and data visualisation.
  • Drive research-led, practice-based teaching linking conceptual thinking with real-world application.
  • Guided 100+ undergraduate and postgraduate projects through critique, direction, and mentorship.
Mar 2024 – Sept 2025

Manager — UX & Game Design

JSW – Museum of Solutions — Mumbai, MH

  • Established and streamlined design processes for high-quality project execution.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary experts across education, tech, and design.
  • Managed and mentored a team of junior designers and architects.
  • Translated ambiguous problems into clear interaction models, prototypes, and design directions.
July 2021 – Mar 2024

UI/UX Designer

Jio Platforms Ltd. — Mumbai, MH

  • Worked with a multidisciplinary team contributing to projects serving 8M+ users.
  • Designed and optimised UX for B2B, B2C, and enterprise software across digital ecosystems.
  • Designed scalable workflows for complex, multi-step user journeys.
  • Conducted UX workshops and user testing for research-driven, business-aligned processes.

Education

2019 – 2021
M.Des in Interdisciplinary Design

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati

2014 – 2018
B.Tech in Industrial & Production Engineering

Central University, Chhattisgarh

Publications

Video Games as Ontological Design in the Indian Context

Dr. Mriganka Madhukaillya, Aman Chandra — July 2023
International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '23), Springer
10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_101 ↗

Speaking

  • DESIGNED: Towards Ontological Thinking in Design — Thursday Talks, WIPRO (2023)
  • The Hobbyist Designer — Guest Lecture, Design Thinker School (2024)

Certifications

  • Comic Book, Graphic Novel and the Imagination — GIAN Course (2018)
  • Game Design — CALARTS/Coursera (2020)
  • Film Appreciation & Filmmaking — Ctrl Alt Cinema (2018)