Ritwik Dey is an Interaction Designer. For “Designers as ChangeMakers”, he talks about the sad state of the Indian education system and his struggle with it. He comes from an engineering background and talks about his growth as a designer and his love for information design and data visualization. Amongst other things he talks about his two projects – Mumbai Voices and EMCounter. Both the projects are based on data collection and cater to the needs to the emerging nations. Ritwik works at the digital ad agency R/GA and spends his spare time being a photographer.

Ritwik Dey is a computer engineer turned designer. He works as the Senior Interaction Designer for R/GA, a digital advertising agency in New York City. For the ‘Designers as Change Makers’ feature, Ritwik, amongst other things talks about the ineffective education system of India. He emphasizes on the fact, that the system needs to change so that Indians can learn to make more effective choices and think out of the box. Keep an eye out for Ritwiks talk on creative thinking, data visualization, interaction design, and the reality that is India.