Ashutosh Biltharia is currently pursuing MFA Interaction Design at Umea Institute of Design, Sweden. Prior to MFA, he completed MDes (Product design) and BE (Mechanical engineering) from India. As a designer and engineer with 7 years of experience, he has worked with thinkers and makers from various backgrounds. He likes to get engaged with complex, real-world challenges and has executed the projects in the healthcare design space in rural and urban India. His expertise lies in the humancentred design process, ethnographic research, and low/high fidelity prototyping, he has also explored the domains of UX design research, interaction and service design. His curiosity to know about people's lives, and to understand their aspirations, motivations and behaviour, often leads to the inspiring and insightful stories.
