People: me and my associates
Sathish Kumar G
I started Bardo in 1998. Lead many projects as a usability design consultant with Amazon.com, Exilant, Netkraft, Sapient, and Icarus.
Before that I co-founded Icarus Design with my good friend George Mathews . Worked as principal partner and product designer for 5 years (1993-1998). Icarus is now one of India's leading branding/industrial design studios. I moved on and started Bardo when I became interested in usability design .
I studied product design (National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad) and Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering, Trivandrum)
Ramu Aravindan
Graphic designer and documentary photographer. Landeater Design, Ramu's consultancy, has worked on projects in identity design, print, new media and visual documentary. Ramu did his MFA in photography from the University of Calgary after graduating in communication design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
Sunil Sudhakaran
Principal partner of Icarus Design Consultants , Sunil has been been the brain behind many brilliant product design projects by Icarus. He is a specialist in usability testing and has set up and directed a usability testing lab for Netkraft. He did his postgraduation in Product Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, after doing his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from TKM college of Engineering, Kollam.
Hari Krishnanath
Principal of iQ llc, Hari offers design solutions to companies developing websites and software. Previously he was VP, Product Development for Oswego.Group in Portland, Oregon, developing Visual Planning and Merchandising software for large sports and apparel companies. He is also skilled in Interpretive Design Research, eliciting “soft knowledge” through fieldwork. Hari did his MA in Design Research from The Ohio State University, and Post-Graduation in Product Design from The National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.