Alishka Shah

Service Design (MA)

EmTrust is an end-to-end verification service that leverages cross-stakeholder data itelligence to prevent Romance Scams against Older People on online platforms.

Lark Quest XR is an immersive gamified mudlarking experience and AR-chive that is designed to foster and rebuild a strong connection between the community and the City of London through artefacts and anecdotes that are excavated from the foreshores of the River Thames

Samsung Galaxy Enhance-X is an AI-powered upscaler and magic editor built for Samsung’s flagship devices, providing users with a one-stop solution for all their media enhancement, correction and quality related needs

TerraTech is an eco-innovative platform solution that equips digital practitioners and product owners with intelligent tools and features, trained on sustainable digital design and green software principles, to evaluate, enhance, and build environmentally-conscious digital products.

About

Alishka Shah is a design researcher and innovator from India passionate about crafting experiences, products, services, and strategies that have the potential to drive meaningful and actionable impact. Adopting a humanity-centered and systemic thinking approach to innovation, she uses design as her lens to explore new domains and challenge existing systemic norms to deliver compelling narratives and holistic solutions.

She pursued her undergraduate degree in Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design, India, and Swinburne University of Technology, Australia and she is currently enrolled in the MA Service Design program at the Royal College of Art, London. Over the years, she’s had the opportunity to work on projects with public and private sector organizations and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver pioneering solutions and experiences that have touched the lives of over a billion people globally. Before pursuing her postgraduate education, she worked as a Senior Designer within the Innovation Team at Samsung Research where she drove research and innovation projects within the realms of visual experience, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality.

Press & Publications:

2021 Design for Tomorrow, International Conference on Research into Design, The Cancer Positive Journey: A System Design Thinking Perspective
Insight 2018 Design Research Symposium, Revival of the Traditional Card Game of Ganjifa: A Design Pedagogy Approach
Samsung Research
The Design Kids
Times of India
Adobe Awards

Selected Awards

Imperial Innovation Challenge 2023 Winner – Deep Tech Acceleration Week
Adobe Design Achievement Awards – Top Talent

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