After interacting with more than 50 Ph.D. students and faculties, online surveys, and deeply understanding a journey of researcher from cofounder Prof. Sourish Dasgupta, we chalked out a following vision of the product:

<aside> 💡 A digital platform that acts as a research assistant and helps users in discovering the right resources at the right time to bridge the gap between reading and understanding. The platform should have a self-organizing information structure without too much effort from the user. The platform should improve user's habits of documenting research for better recall and sharing of the information.

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Key Challenges

1. Designing features that help researchers in connecting related information blocks
2. Coming up with a structure that requires less manual effort for organising knowledge throughout research lifecycle (3-4 years)
3. Designing collaboration on sensitive research material with priority of privacy
4. Breaking the norms (and habits of users) of traditional reference manager tools
5. Being solo designer in managing end-to-end design pipeline 🤯

Creating the design system from scratch

Creating RAx design system to support consistent and speedy development of features.

<aside> 🎨 View RAx Design System →

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RAx Interface