Saloni Bedi, IDSA

Industrial Designer, Loft Design  As an industrial designer, Saloni is passionate about bringing together design, engineering, and business to tackle pressing challenges around us. She has worked in the fields of social impact, healthcare, sustainable product development, and consumer products.   Currently serving as a Senior Industrial Designer at Loft Design & Chapter Chair for IDSA Boston, Saloni got her master’s degree at MIT’s Integrated Design and Management program, a human-centered design focused program where she worked on projects ranging from conducting research in zero gravity to make space more inclusive, building prosthetic knees for low resource settings, developing pregnancy tests accessible for people with vision impairments, and making measuring body’s hydration levels possible. Saloni’s work has been recognized by Fast Company, iF awards, James Dyson award, Prototypes for humanity, C-IDEA etc. 

Activities for Saloni

IDEA Juror | 2025, 2026
Chapter Officer | 2024, 2025
Speaker | Women in Design Deep Dive | 2024

Enhancing your ID Process with GenAI: A Mini-Workshop  

In the rapidly evolving Generative AI landscape, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of where to start, especially when crunched for time. This interactive session will expose participants to a few Generative AI design tools and how we are using them to enhance our industrial design process. We will dive into how, why, and where these AI design tools fit, and things to keep in mind while using them. This mini workshop will provide a look into the tools to start working with Generative AI to design products, while keeping key design considerations in mind.

The participants will gain valuable insights into a variety of Generative AI design tools (such as Midjourney, Vizcom, and Krea, TBD as things change) and learn how to strategically integrate them into their design processes. The session will include a live demonstration of how we work with Generative AI tools with the option to follow along, leaving participants with an understanding of when and where these tools shine and empowering them to make informed decisions about their use.  

The Audience Will Learn: 

  1. How we use certain Generative AI tools to enhance our industrial design process, through examples of our (current) AI workflows.  
  2. Where and how these Generative AI tools can add value in the industrial design process.  
  3. Methods for continuous learning in the rapidly-changing Generative AI landscape.  

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