THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK

Designer.
Builder.
Always curious.

Om Shah outdoors with a mountain landscape behind him
OM SHAH / MUMBAI

I like ideas you
can put to the test.

I work at the intersection of product architecture, mechanical design, embedded systems and physical prototyping. My process is about making ideas testable: CAD the system, build the mechanism, instrument it, learn from failure, and refine the architecture.

My focus is industrial design for UAVs, robotics and advanced hardware, with a bias toward working prototypes and manufacturing reality.

EDUCATION

MSc Integrated Industrial Design

Loughborough University

Bachelors in Product Design

Atlas Skilltech University

BEYOND THE STUDIO

Design in practice.

EBM

Production & marketing work spanning product design, prototyping, materials sourcing and a localised assembly line for servers and network storage devices.

Urban Tribe

A capstone project developing a backpack for gamers, from user research and product design to fabric selection for production.

Data Sure

Website design and development focused on user experience and functionality.

HOW I WORK

From possibility
to physical proof.

01

Design

Product architecture, CAD assemblies, mechanism design, tolerance decisions, DFM, sketching and research.

02

Build

FDM prototyping, laser cutting, CNC and CAM, vacuum forming, electronics integration and soldering.

03

Test

Bench validation, physical test rigs, sensor logging and failure analysis that inform the next iteration.

TOOLS I WORK WITH

SolidWorks · Fusion 360 · ESP32 / Arduino · Python · Dynamixel · ToF LiDAR

RECOGNITION

Gold Award

FreeWheel · Inclusive Sports Design 2025–26 · Brief D
Team project, Loughborough University

Meet FreeWheel ↗