Photo of Rasagy Sharma
Photo of Rasagy Sharma

Hi, I’m Rasagy Sharma.

I’m a Design Leader, Data Artist, Design Educator & Sketchnoter.

Design Leader & Information Designer

I currently head the design team for DataLabs at Capital One. We design innovative products powered by AI & Data Science to improve the experience of buying & selling cars, deliver seamless customer & developer experiences and build SaaS products to share our internal technology with other companies.

Before Capital One, I spent over a decade building data-heavy products & leading design teams:

You can read more about my career path on LinkedIn.

Data Artist

Through my art practice Data.n.coded, I explore the hidden meaning in data using code. My projects are centered around themes of identity, home & migration. I often explore mundane data around me — from visualizing movie narratives to turning names into mandalas.

My work has been exhibited at venues like National Gallery of Modern Art (Bengaluru), CityVis (Berlin), Abhikalpana (IIT Bombay), and Bangalore International Centre (Bengaluru).

Design Educator & Speaker

In my free time, I love to teach. I’m an Adjunct Assistant Professor at IDC, IIT Bombay where I helped kickstart the Information Design Lab. I regularly go back to my alma mater NID Bangalore as a Visiting Faculty. I primarily teach short modules (1–2 weeks long) on Creative Coding, Data Visualization and Digital Cartography. I’ve also taught at Srishti & JKLU, and conducted workshops at IIM-A, ISB Hyderabad, Groww, Shell, and Jio Foundation.

I love doing talks on data visualization, cartography & design. I’ve spoken at State of the Map USA, Outlier, Processing Community Day, DVS Fireside Chat, DesignUp, UX Now, IndiaHCI and several other platforms.

Sketchnoter

I also love to make sense of knowledge by making sketchnotes — a visual note-taking method that I’ve been using since 2011. My sketchnoting journey has been featured on Mike Rohde’s SketchnoteArmy Podcast.

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In my free time, I like to mentor design teams at early-stage startups (like Enmasse & Nestaway), and volunteer for communities (like DesignUp, IndiaHCI & CC Santè).

I also love playing football, ultimate frisbee and dancing Argentine Tango.

Education

I have a M.Des. in Information & Interface Design from NID, Bangalore and a B.E. (Hons.) in Computer Science Engineering from BITS Pilani, Goa Campus.

License

Most of my content on this website — sketchnotes, talks slides, teaching exercises — is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA, which means you can feel free to share, use & build upon these things while giving credit, sharing under the same license and not using it for commercial purposes.

Feel free to reach out to me if you want to use my work in a way that isn’t possible under this license.

The work of students, and slides of talks by other speakers etc. are owned by the respective creators. Please reach out to them personally before using their work in any form.

Colophon

This site is built from scratch using Hugo — a static site generator built in Go — hand crafted by me after hours of painful persistent tweaking made possible through Tachyons. It is hosted via Github Pages.

It is set in the modernist sans-serif typeface Satoshi by Deni Anggara from Indonesia, and the elegant serif typeface Sentient by Noopur Choksi from India & a fellow NID alumnus. The fonts are served through Fontshare, a privacy-focused font service by Indian Type Foundry (ITF).

The layout is inspired by the minimal, functional layouts of International Typographic Style & terribly implemented as I try to learn CSS grids.

It is designed using a minimal color palette: #F4F4F4 + #333333 + #00449E.