Aditya Sharma

Founder / Product Manager

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Meet Unacceptable.

Smart meal tracking and coaching takes the guesswork out of low carb diets. 

Track carb intake -- Automatically predicts food from photos

Witness successful dieters -- Find fresh meals in Community.

Know what to eat & avoid -- Get to know carbs in your food.

Join Beta in US & Android:  Link

iPhones in Canada & Australia: App Store

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Meet @KetoBot on Facebook Messenger.

Through messenger you can lookup nutrition information of 600k food items. Just type: “Carbs in ____” or “Nutrition in _____” and get instant answers.

Experiment. Get to know your food. Be your own evidence.

Try it now : https://m.me/KetoBot/

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Redesign of the app. Once synchronous voice conversations had been optimized (thanks to our great listeners we had 56% WoW retention with our callers), we experimented with asynchronous chat to increase the first time user experience - it worked incredibly well.

Initially, we preferred voice because it conveys a lot of emotions. However, it can take a lot of courage, and effort to find private space to speak about real issues.

Chat is preferred for those new to talking about their issues, those on-the-go and those looking to schedule a longer call with their favorite listener. 

Personal preference, age and motivation for call played a huge role in which mode people chose. 

Design details. We eventually moved Chat in a Fab button on the bottom right. UX changes make greater impact than UI changes in early stages. We kept experimenting.  

Check out Listener app: http://listener.taptosmile.com/ 

Check out more current version of the app: https://ginger.io/ 

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Unacceptable

Calorie counter with ketogenic food. 

Tech used: React-Native.  

Current version: 106

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Listener - On Demand Therapy

Hard days are tough, but a good conversation can make them brighter. The Listener app lets callers talk to a caring person when they need it. Listeners are available from noon to midnight across all timezones. The calls won’t cost callers any minutes–they’re routed through wifi and data. 

We believe small conversations can have a big impact, click here to learn more. Need someone to talk to? Download app on Android or iOS. 

I want to thank Ginger.io founders Anmol and Karan for allowing me to start a consumer division. Also huge thanks to my kickass team: Abhi, Ryan, Tim, Asma, and Rosie. They helped launch Listener on iOS, Android and web, built a community of 95 therapists, helped over 22k+ patients at 56% weekly retention. Listening is powerful, and this service really works. 

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New interface for photo editing

Palette was started by two great friends: Calvin Chu and Ashish Bidadi. I was fortunate enough to help them during their Kickstarter product launch in Fall 2013. My main goal was to ensure product launched successfully and the team raised more than $100k. Palette earned $158k in 30 days and shipped the product successfully. 

Check out the Kickstarter page. Palette was featured in 60+ media publications including Fast Company, Verge, and Engadget.

Calvin, Ashish, Rashid, Fred, Ray, Parth, and Ryan worked extremely hard to produce a beautiful new interface for photographers. As of Jan 2016, Palette’s magnetically connected sliders, dials and buttons offer photographers faster, more intuitive and precise editing experience. Check out their website. 

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Everyone can cook

A virtual chef coach on your Google Glass. 

I partnered with a chef and an engineer to make I Want to Cook in Fall 2013. Google Glass provided a hands free user experience with a recipe visual display and voice coaching. The app also synced with a smart weight scale via Bluetooth LE (Orange Chef Smart Scale). We won the best innovation prize. Featured in SF Chronicle, photo taken by Carlos Avila Gonzalez. 

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Redesign of Yelp Lists

I travel often, and when I travel in the US, I use Yelp a lot. Recently, I noticed lists generated by few power users. 

Problem

However, Yelp lists were limited : first, it was only available on desktop and I couldn't see curated items on mobile. Second, I could not thank the creators of the list nor share the list. Finally, I couldn't interact with the list itself, I could only view the list and click on the Yelp pages included in the list. 

In terms of design, the conceptual model of how I would create a list was fuzzy, and the signifiers were buried deep in two nested menus with ~40+ links on the page.

Potential

Now I think lists are a great feature; they convert passive acquired users who simply visit Yelp to find venues (consumers) to activated users who engage, submit content and add value to the platform (creators). 

Lists are also a great way to filter many atoms of information into a cohesive curated collective theme by experienced users (e.g. best breakfast joints to cure hangovers in SF, best vegetarian spots for meat haters in North Beach, Best dessert places to satisfy sugar cravings in the Bay Area).

Proposed Solution

Thus, my goal was to increase engagement by turning more acquired users into active users who start generating curated lists for their community (aka tastemakers). 

As an overall theme, I wanted to design with mobile in mind, and follow three of Dieter Rams design principles - I wanted to lists to be useful, understandable, and honest.  

So, I started with atoms of reviews, and formed them into interactive clusters of lists that highlighted the tastemaker on hover. 

Then, I added one page where a user could create new lists easily and drag past reviews that they had written to multiple lists they had created. 

FInally, I showcased the creators of the lists, added a map to provide context for every list, and inserted few key sharing features to spread the lists and thank the creator.  

My goal is just to strive for simplicity. Let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback on the design.

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http://www.trytogethr.com - At Togethr, We were designing the world's best gift giving experience on mobile. 

http://togethr.sharmaed.com/ - After 18 wonderful months, I decided to leave Togethr. After getting inspired, I decided to open source our journey.

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This was my 1st startup - Bookneto's mission was to make education affordable by providing courses from experts and interactive textbooks online. Similar to Udacity.

We had amazing developers & launched a solid product. 

Company was acquired by one of our customers in 2011. 

Check out Analytics Platform by Niall Wingham

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IC 2020 - Waterloo Mechatronics Engineering Design Project 2011. 

It was rated one of the first Kinect-based SLAM solutions. It received the Maplesoft Best Design Presentation, ASME Technical Excellence Awards.

Optical flow used Shi-Tomasi corners for key-frames. Visual Odometry with Shi-Tomasi + SURF (RANSAC for outlier rejection). Loop closure detection used a dynamic feature library and a global network optimization for loop closure

Hands down, it was a privilege to be part of the best technical team at the Symposium. Thank you Sean Anderson, Kirk MacTavish, and Dary Tiong.

Watch the silent video below or video with sound here. 

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Click here to check out the Timeline. 

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TEDx talk by Larry Smith - He is the catalyst behind majority of the University of Waterloo's entrepreneurs. A true mentor, and one of the best Economics professors ever.

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Clarity in thought | Elon Musk at his finest | Role model since 2011.

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Life is good!