Design Impact Movement
What’s In It For You
Design Impact Movement
Human Centered Design
IDEO
Start with the 'Why'
Nagaraja Prakasam
Design Meets Tech Meets Social
Prof. Madhukar Shukla
From Opportunities to the Ones You Want to Solve
Prof. Vijayaraghavan M Chariar
Solution Design & Development
Rohit Swarup
Prototype and Validation
Susmita Mohanty
Tinkering Along
Anuj Sharma
Taking Tech-Enabled Products to Market
K Chandrasekhar
Telling Masterful Stories
Aruna Ganesh Ram
Masterclasses
Prototype and Validation

Rocket science or earth bound products, prototyping helps understand real world product behavior

Having arrived at a nuanced solution, our next challenge is to ask ourselves, 'How do I bring this into being in the real world?' 

This takes us into the world of making high-fidelity, functional prototypes using the actual materials you intend to use for the final solution, or a close …

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Having arrived at a nuanced solution, our next challenge is to ask ourselves, 'How do I bring this into being in the real world?' 

This takes us into the world of making high-fidelity, functional prototypes using the actual materials you intend to use for the final solution, or a close functional approximation.We will hear from an expert who makes protoypes for units that are built to weather extreme terrain and outer space conditions. This is where we get 'hands-on' and things start to take shape. You will learn what to anticipate when in this space of endeavor and what you need to learn and remember to ensure success.

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Susmita Mohanty
CEO, Earth2Orbit | Spaceship designer | Climate action advocate

Susmita Mohanty is a spaceship designer and the only space entrepreneur in the world to have started companies on 3 different continents. She is the CEO of EARTH2ORBIT, India’s first private start-up that played a pivotal role in opening up the US launch market for India. She has co-founded two other companies, MOONFRONT in San Francisco in 2001 and LIQUIFER in Vienna in 2004. Prior to turning entrepreneur, she worked for the Space Station Program at Boeing in California and …

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Susmita Mohanty is a spaceship designer and the only space entrepreneur in the world to have started companies on 3 different continents. She is the CEO of EARTH2ORBIT, India’s first private start-up that played a pivotal role in opening up the US launch market for India. She has co-founded two other companies, MOONFRONT in San Francisco in 2001 and LIQUIFER in Vienna in 2004. Prior to turning entrepreneur, she worked for the Space Station Program at Boeing in California and did a short stint at NASA.

In 2019, Susmita was selected as one of BBC’s 100 Women laureates inspiring and influencing a female-led future. In 2017, she was featured on cover of Fortune Magazine. In 2012, she was voted into Financial Times’ list of “25 Indians to Watch”. In 2016, she was nominated to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council for Space Technologies. In 2005, Susmita was honored on Capitol Hill in Washington DC with the International Achievement Award. Educated in India, France, and Sweden, Susmita holds multiple degrees including a Ph.D. More @ www.themoonwalker.in

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I Wish

Hindsight has its benefits — here’s what previous Design Impact Award winners wish they knew when they got on the road to designing for social good.