# Ridima Ramesh > Game Design Lead Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ridima With her background in games and entertainment, Ridima approaches everything she designs with a focus on the player's intrinsic motivations. At IDEO, she brings this lens when tackling a range of challenges across many industries; from the design of organizational incentives for worker satisfaction to digital healthcare services; and even an educational escape room to helps mayors learn about cybersecurity. ## Work Experience ### Design Lead (Game & Interaction Design) @ IDEO Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Game Designer @ IDEO Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Game Designer @ IDEO Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto ### Game Design Intern @ IDEO Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto ### Designer, Project Pupil @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area This 15-week project involves imagining and exploring how augmented reality (AR) headsets might be used for classroom-based learning, to find design patterns in this domain. Responsibilities: - Determine what areas to explore with each prototype in the broad range of "educational experiences" - Balancing innovative interactions with pedagogical guidelines - Creating and iterating on the features in each prototype - Working with the programmers to prioritize and adjust features based on feasibility of implementation - Documenting development process and findings - Create a high-concept design beyond the scope of implementation, in collaboration with a 2D illustrator ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Art & Festival TA. Responsibilities: - Providing support for students who need help with 2D art and beginners in 3D art. - Organizing the end-of-semester annual showcase, the ETC Festival - Providing support for selected teams to theme their rooms while optimizing guest experience - Organizing teams of student volunteers to help with preparations, day-of work, and post-event cleanup - Curating and managing the VIP Guest List ### Game Design Intern @ codeSpark Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area codeSpark Academy is designed to inspire creativity in kids aged 5-10 by teaching them the basics of coding. I interned here for the summer, working with the product team on the launch of a new module that enables kids to use their coding to tell stories. Responsibilities: - Researched existing products and papers related to children's storytelling patterns and previous efforts in combining them with coding - Contributed to both high-level design (brainstorming systems and features) and low-level design (iterative UI mockups) - Arranged and helped conduct playtests - Tested the existing game for accessibility using the AbleGamer guide ### Designer, Prism @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Designed a game for Beech Bottom Primary in West Virginia, that enables 9-10 year old neurotypical children to empathise with their autistic peers. Used an iterative design process and worked with a Subject Matter Expert to take the game from needs discovery to delivered game in 15 weeks. ### Producer, Designer & Artist, Building Virtual Worlds @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Created five virtual experiences in two week sprints, on four or five-member teams of programmers, artists and sound designers. Out of about 80 projects, 1 VR project I worked on was selected with around 10 others to be a part of the annual showcase - the ETC festival. ## Education ### Master's Degree in Entertainment Technology Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering SIES Graduate School Of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ### High School in Computer Science Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ridima-ramesh --- Source: https://flows.cv/ridima JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ridima/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25