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

Uber Design Night on Pixel, Purpose, and Perspective

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:14:14 +0530

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

Panel on Vibe Architects: How Leaders Build & Sustain Creative Energy

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:10:10 +0530

I was invited to join a panel discussion at Design Days 2025 in Bangalore, organized by Salesforce. The panel was on how design leaders define, build & nurture culture, and inevitably discussed how AI is changing the way we work. Photo of Panel on Culture at Design Days 2025 Design Days is an annual design event held by Salesforce, with an interesting hybrid & cross-city schedule. This year, it was held in BIC, Bengaluru, along with parallel editions in Hyderabad & Singapore.

Indians who sketchnote

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:47:45 +0530

List of Sketchnoters from India that I admire.

About Rasagy Sharma

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:04:30 +0000

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

Fireside Chat with Simona Maschi (CIID)

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:06:06 +0530

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.

Designing with Heart & Balance (DesignUp ✕ Atlassian)

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:30:05 +0530

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

Disability and Digital Self Determination Workshop

Sat, 13 May 2023 17:13:13 +0530

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

Tale of Datta: AI-generated comic on mythology of data

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:10:10 +0530

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

Mapping Patterns of Violence Against Journalists in India

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 01:01:01 +0530

What kinds of violence does a typical journalist in India face while doing their job? Mapping 250+ incidences of assaults, threats, detention, arrests & more.

Data Viz, the UnEmpathetic Art

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:20:00 +0530

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. This was clearly one of the most thought-provoking talk, in which he questioned the role of data viz in building empathy, and the moral implications of this approach. His talk was filled with amazing quotes, references & prompts to reflect upon. “If I look at the mass, I will never act.

Telling Stories With Data and Music

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:40:00 +0530

Sketchnote of Outlier talk on Data Sonification Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick spoke at Outlier about Data Sonification. I was really looking forward to this talk, and getting a glimpse of their data sonification project — Loud Numbers. Since I had not experienced many sonification projects, I was fairly skeptical of it being a useful medium to communicate data. Their talk was not just an excellent introduction to inspiring data sonification projects, they also had some great pointers on which audio parameter to use when (possible ontology/framework opportunity!

DxD: Data through Design exhibition

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 22:10:00 +0530

Sketchnote of Outlier talk on Data through Design exhibition Sara Eichner introduced this year’s DataXDesign exhibition at Outlier. I’ve always been intrigued by how the traditional art world looks at Data Art — her thoughts on curation, engagement & insightfulness were great! The highlight was Brian Foo’s data sonification project called Two Trains that visualized income inequality on NYC Subway through three boroughs. You can watch a video of the talk on Youtube:

How Do We Translate Cultural Experiences Into Data Stories?

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:40:00 +0530

Sketchnote of talk about Kontinentalist Mick Yang & Isabella Chua spoke at Outlier about the amazing work by Kontinentalist team. This was my favorite talk from Day #1. They showcased a series of inspiring & unique data stories based on their cultural experiences. From Rohingya refugees to chillis & queues in Asia — so many interesting topics! What I loved was their process of creating these beautiful data stories:

World Wisdom Map: Repository of life lessons & insights

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 23:59:59 +0530

What would a map of wisdom from all around the world look like? Result of an inspiring collaboration with Project Fuel.

Design Workshop on Influencing Information

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:20:20 +0530

I was invited to conduct a two-week virtual Design Workshop at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad for B.Des. 7th sem students. My workshop focused on an introduction to Data Visualization, Visual Encoding, Data Storytelling & Cartography. Hometown Schematic Map One of the exercises done in the workshop was to create a schematic map of their hometown, focused on a particular audience & purpose for this map. Some of the selected maps are shared below with their process, and the complete discussion & references are available on this Github issue.

What stories can you narrate with data?

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:30:00 +0530

I got invited to conduct a virtual, interactive workshop on data storytelling, for MIT ID Innovation Program’s Virtual GradShow. In the workshop, I explained why data needs to be narrated as stories, showed some case studies by Gramener & walked through the process of going from data analysis to narrating a story. I also focused on how design thinking’s user-centricity & encoding principles based on visual perception enable us to visualize insights that are useful & engaging.

Fireside chat: Sketching & Data Visualization

Thu, 14 May 2020 01:02:03 +0530

I got a chance to join two incredible designers — Katherine Haugh & Duncan Geere — for a fireside chat on Sketching & Data Visualization. This chat was done virtually, moderated by Amy Cesal for the DataVizSociety. We spoke about using sketching in the data viz process, using sketching as an aesthetic for data viz, and using sketchnoting as a way to visually represent information. You can watch the session on Youtube:

Maps love Data: A voyage across the world of geo-visualization

Wed, 13 May 2020 15:00:00 +0530

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. I spoke about how maps are inherently a form of data visualization, and how they enable a variety of geo-visualizations. Slides from my talk are available on SpeakerDeck:

Loopimation: Creating looping animations in P5.js

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0530

Loopimation was a short workshop on building looping geometric animations in P5.js that I conducted at Processing Community Day 2020 in Bengaluru (India). Talking about historical techniques for animations You can explore some of the example starter P5.js sketches, using the wonderful p5.createLoop library. An example looping animation created in workshop Slides are available on Google Slides: You can also download & print my storyboarding template for planning your animations. More details on the Github repository for the workshop.

Geo Visualization & Digital Cartography

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:12:30 +0530

I was invited back at my alma mater to teach M.Des. Information Design students for their Geo Visualization & Digital Cartography module, led by Prof. Chakradhar Saswade. My sessions focused on an introduction to Cartography, types of Geo Visualization, Schematic Mapping, Sensory Mapping & Choropleths in Excel! Hometown Schematic Map One of the exercises was to create a schematic map of their hometown, focused on a particular audience & purpose for this map.

Organizing World Interaction Design Day (IxDD 2019, BLR)

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:30:00 +0530

I helped organize the World Interaction Design Day 2019 celebrations at IBM, Bangalore. As one of the local leader for IxDA, I was involved in speaker curation & logistics for the event. Teams collaborating during the Ethics Sprint workshop at IxDD 2019 Speaker lineup We had two talks & one workshop exploring Trust & Responsibility from the lens of Interaction Design: Vinay Kesari spoke on Data Protection Law in India. Sundhindra V.

Fireside chat: Designing for Data with Dr. Dan Hayden

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:00:00 +0530

Fireside chat with Dr. Dan Hayden. Photo by D91 Labs I got invited by D91 Labs to host a fireside chat with Dr. Dan Hayden — Data Strategist at Facebook in Dublin, co-lead of the Design Jam program & TTC Labs. He spoke about Designing for Data through examples and case studies from Lab’s work. Post his talks, I engaged him with a few questions around Dan’s career path, his work principles, and importance of social sciences in design.

data.n.coded: collection of creative coding experiments

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 01:02:03 +0530

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

A cleaner Ganga: Visualizing NDA’s unfulfilled promise

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:04:29 +0530

Project Brief NDA launched Namami Ganga project to clean the river Ganga, but has it made an impact? How would this focus on a single river impact other polluted rivers? Project Context Type: Collaboration with Harsha Devulapalli from Mint Duration: 1 week My role: Co-created geo-visualizations of India & Ganges river basin About the project I got a chance to work on a full page story for Mint, an Indian newspaper focused on data-driven journalism.

Visualizing Traffic Fatalities in Washington D.C.

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:20:24 +0530

What if you could map every traffic accident? A smart city project using open data from DDoT, Washington D.C.

Redesigning OSMCha: Human-in-the-loop tool for OpenStreetMap QA

Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:10:31 +0530

(More details soon)

This was once home: Memory Mapping

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:15:03 +0530

What would a map of your memories of home look like? A memory map of my time at Magarpatta City in Pune.

Visualizing Effects of War on Migration & GDP

Wed, 25 May 2016 00:15:00 +0530

Explore the project View the dashboard here

Road Rage: Visualizing road accidents in U.K.

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:47:47 +0530

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

Visualizing how Indians travel in different cities

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:02:03 +0530

Explore the project View poster

Visualizing the 12th Five Year Plan by Indian government

Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:02:14 +0530

Explore the project Read more about the project

Visualizing 500 Days of Summer

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:22:21 +0000

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!

Visualizing 500 Days of Summer

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:00:00 +0530

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

Visualizing Trains from Indian Metros

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 04:04:04 +0530

How are the four major Indian metro cities connected with rest of the country through trains? A data art piece on reverse migration, post-colonial development and cartograms.

Reflections from my first year at design school

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:18:18 +0000

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. A year later, I felt it would be a good time to reflect on a few things.

Week 1: Alberto Cairo’s MOOC on Infographics & Data Visualization

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:44:40 +0000

As an assignment, we had to pick one of the many infographics, critique it, & suggest alternatives to the infographic. Here’s my critique & some sketches.

It’s not a font, it’s a typeface!

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:45:15 +0000

One of my favorite ways to bug everyone, is to scream this whenever someone mixes the terms font and typeface. So here’s a poster on it!

Viznam: Explorations around visualizing names in abstract forms

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:04:12 +0530

More details soon!

Visualizing T.T. Finals at NID Bangalore

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:12:12 +0000

Last month, the (newly elected) sports committee of NID Bangalore organized a Table Tennis Tournament. Here’s my first attempt at making a data visualization – Final matches between Amal & Upamanyu.

Indian Flag in CSS3 – Republic Day Special!

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:13:13 +0000

Making anything & everything in CSS3 seems to be the rage these days. So to celebrate the Republic Day of India, I decided to make the Flag of India in CSS3.

Humanize the Android

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:18:18 +0000

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.

Web Accessibility and HTML5 Boilerplate

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:01:01 +0000

In October, I attended a Geekup session on Web Accessibility & HTML5 Boilerplate by HasGeek. Here are the 2 Sketchnotes I made.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Blog!

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

What better time to start a new blog, than NOW? Finally, I have one place to archive my thoughts, ideas & sketchnotes.

Run Chef Run — My game for CodeChef Contest

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:31:00 +0530

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

Run Chef Run: A side-scroller game about coding

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:18:56 +0530

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.

Sketch — Goodbye Seniors!

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:04:04 +0530

A quick caricature of two of my favorite seniors.

Sketch — Thank You, Adil Sir!

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0530

A small sketch for a prof who introduced me to design!

Farewell, BITS Goa batch of 2005!

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:08:00 +0530

A short note to some of the amazing seniors from 2005 batch that I’ll miss.

Blog Creation

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:08 +0530

My first post on my first personal blog!