Rasagy Sharma | Design Leader, Data Artist, Design Educator & Sketchnoter

Another week, another note!

My first ever weeknote, an attempt at holding on to what went well this week.

Notes from the most recent IndieWebClub meetup in Bengaluru about why do people write, blog, or have personal websites.

I was invited to join a panel discussion at India’s first Claude Code Community Meetup, that expanded from Claude Code Central London to Bengaluru (& a few more Indian cities).

Sketchnotes by Rasagy from Uber Design Night, focused on how AI is reshaping design & research workflows.

I was invited to join a panel discussion at Design Days 2025 in Bangalore, organized by Salesforce.

List of Sketchnoters from India that I admire.

Rasagy is a Design Leader, Data Artist, Design Educator & Sketchnoter.

Sketchnotes by Rasagy from Accel’s first Design Connect, where Akshay Verma (Founder, Prophecy) hosted a fireside chat with Simona Maschi (CEO, CIID) on teaching & practicing design.

Sketchnotes by Rasagy of a panel about transitioning across design roles by Atlassian, in collaboration with DesignUp.

Sketchnotes from the workshop at Swissnex on Disability & Self-Determination by Point of View & Design Beku.

A comic about mythology of data, created with AI tools by Rasagy Sharma

What kinds of violence does a typical journalist in India face while doing their job?

Sketchnote of Outlier talk on Data Viz, the UnEmpathetic Art Mushon Zer-Aviv spoke at Outlier about how data viz is an un-empathetic art.

Sketchnote of Outlier talk on Data Sonification Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick spoke at Outlier about Data Sonification.

Sketchnote of Outlier talk on Data through Design exhibition Sara Eichner introduced this year’s DataXDesign exhibition at Outlier.

Sketchnote of talk about Kontinentalist Mick Yang & Isabella Chua spoke at Outlier about the amazing work by Kontinentalist team.

What would a map of wisdom from all around the world look like?

I was invited to conduct a two-week virtual Design Workshop at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad for B.Des. 7th sem students.

I got invited to conduct a virtual, interactive workshop on data storytelling, for MIT ID Innovation Program’s Virtual GradShow.

I got a chance to join two incredible designers — Katherine Haugh & Duncan Geere — for a fireside chat on Sketching & Data Visualization.

I was invited to speak to the M.Des. students in Department of Design at SPA Bhopal as part of their Design Samvãd series of guest lectures.

Loopimation was a short workshop on building looping geometric animations in P5.js that I conducted at Processing Community Day 2020 in Bengaluru (India).

I was invited back at my alma mater to teach M.Des.

I helped organize the World Interaction Design Day 2019 celebrations at IBM, Bangalore.

Fireside chat with Dr.

Home for my experiments with generative & data art in P5.js

Project Brief NDA launched Namami Ganga project to clean the river Ganga, but has it made an impact?

What if you could map every traffic accident?

(More details soon)

What would a map of your memories of home look like?

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Tableau dashboard visualizing insights from the road accident data for U.K. in the year 2014 for the Data Visualization Hackathon at Barclays.

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This semester began with a module on Narratives, and when I got a chance to pick a topic for my Information Visualization module, I just had to visualize this movie’s non-linear narrative!

Visualization of the non-linear narrative of the movie: 500 Days of Summer

How are the four major Indian metro cities connected with rest of the country through trains?

Exactly one year back, I decided to leave my job as a UX Designer and joined National Institute of Design, Bangalore to pursue Post Grad in Information & Interface Design.

As an assignment, we had to pick one of the many infographics, critique it, & suggest alternatives to the infographic.

One of my favorite ways to bug everyone, is to scream this whenever someone mixes the terms font and typeface.

More details soon!

Last month, the (newly elected) sports committee of NID Bangalore organized a Table Tennis Tournament.

Making anything & everything in CSS3 seems to be the rage these days.

Last month I volunteered for organizing Droidcon India at Bangalore & I squeezed some time to sketchnote for the session – “Humanize the Android” by Vivek Juneja.

In October, I attended a Geekup session on Web Accessibility & HTML5 Boilerplate by HasGeek.

What better time to start a new blog, than NOW?

My entry for CodeChef contest: A game made in Flash.

A short side scroller game about a chef jumping over binary heaps and sliding under dangling pointers, made for a CodeChef contest using ActionScript in Flash.

A quick caricature of two of my favorite seniors.