mumbai the annual design degree show organised by the students of iit bombay began on saturday the fiveday show has on display projects made by the graduating students of the industrial design centre idc at the institute along with panel discussion on various designrelated topics amita sharma advisor ministry of human resource development mhrd inaugural speaker at the show spoke about a host of interpretations and approaches to design thinking across a range of design fields such as culture technology communication and others the major purpose of the projects is to solve peoples unmet problems we want to showcase these designs to the major stakeholders industries and the government many projects are at an advanced level and are ready for the market for example a medical product designed to light the veins via leds so that it is easier to take blood already has seven prototypes ready said bk chakravarthy head of the idc there will be 190 projects designed by 56 students under six themes access and transportation art craft and culture health and wellbeing society and analysis communication and learning and working and living in india some of the innovations on display include an animated dictionary by keerti chowdhary which has words and spellings in an animated form to help dyslexic children understand them better the dictionary is audiovisual and uses phonic method then there is the dabbawala app developed by abhishek chakraborty and akshay hargude this app enables the customer to connect with the dabbawala as well as food delivery services who will in turn be able to update their menus regularly