Forbes 30 Under 30
Studio Carbon
2024
Hello, I’m Mani Teja.Systems Thinker
With over eight years of design experience, nurtured at NID, I’ve worked across enterprise platforms and design studios to make complex products easier to understand and use.
Currently at Honeywell, designing building and operational systems. Previously co-founder and design lead at Studio Carbon, recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30.
Awards & Recognition
The James Dyson Award
National Runner-up
2020
Lexus Design Award
Finalist
2019
Taiwan Student Design
Finalist
2019
SNCF Circular Challenge
Global Runner-up
2018
Selected Projects
01 / Schedules in Niagara
Placeholder thesis: designing a scheduling feature for Niagara Cloud Suite. Replace with the real one-sentence summary once the case study is written up.
- Product design
02 / Metric Builder
Led UX end to end for Metric Builder, a composable dashboard platform for Honeywell's Niagara Cloud Suite: from the framing workshop through information architecture, widget flow and the Ask Niagara AI layer.
94%valid data connections with smart filtering, vs 67% in the data-first prototype
- Product strategy
- User research
- Information architecture
- Complex UI
- AI
03 / Ventilator HMI
Led UX for the Borven ventilator HMI redesign, from field research across three ICUs to a validated interface, cutting time-to-action by 38% and error attempts from 1.6 to 0.4 per session.
38%reduction in median time-to-action from standby to therapy (n=8)
- UX strategy
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Field research