The project was done at Pramati technologies, Hyderabad who recently launched a new platform for applications that brings an integrated experience of the web and the desktop, by the name ‘Dekoh’.

A Baby Boomer is a person born between 1946 and 1964 in Australia, Canada or the United States. Following World War II, the United States experienced an unusual spike in birth rates, a phenomenon commonly known as the baby boom.

The existing Dekoh Photo application mainly targets an American audience. It can organize photos with captions, tags etc and share individual photos or entire folders. A new template for the application had to be designed for technologically semi-literate people, the Baby Boomer generation (45 to 60 age group), which has an easy and accessible interface to view, share and organise photos. Dekoh is open source, so anyone with an idea and some engineering skills can build applications for the platform.
My role was to make a new information architecture taking into account different use-cases and age specific usability issues followed by wireframes, the final look and feel and interaction.

The diploma project gave me an opportunity to learn quick conceptualisation and rapid prototyping, the design process followed in the industry and giving practical solutions in the time frame. I learnt project management, time scheduling and realised that a designer should have an overall understanding of the techniques involved in implementing a product and the technical constraints.