Vignesh Hari KrishnanM.Arch
Product Designer
Program
Master of Architecture II, '22, Yale School of Architecture
Projects
- WellSis
- Development of a Community Responsive Digital Health Tool for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
- Personal Health Libraries for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals (PerHL)
- Fracture Risk Assessment Calculator (FRAC-HIV)
Vignesh Harikrishnan is a Post-professional Graduate student at the School of Architecture at Yale. Before Yale, Vignesh started "Platform" in Chennai as a forum for ideas that needed a stage to discuss in 2017. Since then he has engaged with UNHCR to study the refugee crisis in India and with the Directorate of Social Defence in designing participatory toolkits for management of Commons in the Peri-Urban Chennai.
His works have been published in Archdaily and Architizer, Drawing Matter, and Yale Retrospecta 45. He has been invited to present his thesis in Amman, Trichy and Chennai. Named the Frederick T. Ahlson Scholarship recipient, 2020-22, and awarded the Dean Merit Scholarship at Yale, Vignesh holds a gold medal from his undergraduate degree. He taught at Yale as a Teaching Fellow at the School of Architecture and as a CCAM studio fellow and CBEY 2050 Fellow.
Vignesh now focuses on behavioral health and wellness as a Product Designer at Vitality Group, Chicago.
Fun Fact
“We designed a Moss Helmet for space :)”
Selected Publications
- Recommendations for Designing a Digital Health Tool for Blindness Prevention Among High-Risk Diabetic Retinopathy Patients: Qualitative Focus Group Study of Adults With Diabetes · 2025
- Digital Health Tool for Preventing Blindness From Diabetic Retinopathy: Protocol for a Qualitative Study · 2025
- "It was Empowering": Care Pathways — A Novel Culturally Informed Inspiration Card Game for Community-Engaged Co-Design with Black American Women and Clinicians · 2025
- Design of Personal Health Libraries for People Returning from Incarceration in the United States · 2024