Prof. Uday Athavankar is a multi-talented individual who has worked as an architect, an industrial designer, a game designer, and a cognitive scientist. He was the Head of the Industrial Design Center and a member of the Governing Council at IIT Bombay. also serves in an advisory role for a number of organisations. After retiring, he serves as a mentor for the business Twobythree, which gamifies user comprehension. After earning his degree in architecture from the Sir J.J. College of Architecture, he practised architecture for four years before deciding to pursue industrial design in 1970. He pursued industrial design studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, as a UNESCO fellow. Since then, he has divided his time between teaching design, conducting design research, and consulting for businesses on design-related issues. His designs have received both domestic and foreign acclaim. His present work also involves game design and game design theory. He has worked as a researcher in fields including "product semantics" and "relationships between objects and cultures." Additionally, he has been researching how visual thinking, spatial intelligence, and mental imagery are used while solving design problems. On these research topics, he has given several national and international lectures and publications. Additionally, he serves on the advisory boards of several prestigious international scientific publications.