Hi, I'm Saswat.
From shaping fintech products that reached millions to crafting learning tools children play with on the floor - my work spans the full range of human experience, digital and tangible. What stays constant is the instinct: start with wonder, zoom in and out until something clicks, then make it feel inevitable. Six years of this has taught me that clarity and curiosity aren't opposites, one leads to the other.
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I’m from Balangir, a town in Odisha. I grew up making wooden cars, cricket bats, ravan effigy & paper rockets, experimenting with motors, and photoshopping unreal things. Tinkering and creating was always my way of belonging in the world, that instinct led me to the NID, where it finally had a name. These days it also makes me the favourite uncle of two nieces, and not just because of the gifts.
I’ve always been fascinated by how we interpret the world, often thinking about culture, systems, inventions, and new ideas. I have a lot of interests and it can get overwhelming, but I enjoy picking up new challenges, like most recently planning and modelling homes in 3D for our parents. In life, I’m the one reorganising the kitchen at midnight because there are clipped packets and empty boxes, pulling my friends for adventure on trips, and adding to a growing list of sci-fi I haven’t read yet.
Smell-based memory devices, craft-marketplaces, self-sustainable living communities, playable economies. Basically, better ways to live through exploration. Ideas like these keep my imagination moving, and sometimes they become side projects, like the board game I designed about startup pitches. I’ve also watched enough Shark Tank to know what a bad unit economics slide looks like.
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