Atul Manohar

is Android 1 the 1 for India ?

Android One Google’s new initiative to promote Android smartphones in India. Most of the Indians today, want to update themselves to latest available technology. Having the JUGAAD philosophy, inbuilt in their DNA will Indians take the advantage of the Android 1 to improve the way they live and work? I have met many people from varied socioeconomic backgrounds who are […]

Research, Technology + Art, Creativity, Design = Innovation

Research, Technology, AND Art, Creativity, Design are the building blocks of INNOVATION The human brain is said to have two halves left brain and right brain. Many researchers believe that the LEFT side of the brain is responsible for logical sequential thinking, and the RIGHT side is more of creativity and lateral thinking. Anyways, for problem-solving, we need the […]

Gamification of Enterprise.

last Month, I Attended the first Gamification conference in Bangalore (India) and to my surprise, there were more than 350 participants for a conference and around 100 participants for the workshop. Clearly shows the level of interest industry is showing to explore some concepts to make work more interesting and efficient. Gamification surely looks like […]

Can there be a defined process of innovation?

I have been toying around with this for quite some time now, I have been working on various design projects ranging from Space Design (Architectural Design) to Product design, Promotional design, to Designing portals, Web-based on-demand models of matured products or complicated systems which borrow a lot of information on a dashboard. I have been using, […]

JUGAAD the Robinson Crusoe Style of Innovation.

Makeshift product innovation: “from whatever resources available” ‘Jugaad’ is quite a popular word in the Indian design & development community. JUGAAD is also a local name for a makeshift automobile built by some smart technicians in Northern India, (I am sure there will be another Avatar of the same in South having another name too) […]