# Neal Boyer

> Imagining stuff @ Brain.ai | IDEO Alum

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nealboyer

There’s a moment I chase in every project.

You can feel it when it happens. The room changes. Someone says something that clicks with something someone else was already thinking. Ideas start connecting faster than anyone can write them down. There’s a quiet electricity in the air, an unspoken sense that we’re onto something real.

I think of it as a creative wildfire.

My path has taken me from moving across the country to help build a magic theater in the heart of San Francisco, to inventing toys and designing future technologies at IDEO, and now to Brain.ai, where I serve as Chief Imagination Officer, helping launch the next era of the smartphone on a global stage.

Along the way, I’ve always loved pushing tools to their limits to create novel experiences. I’ve built ARG-style online treasure hunts, a choose-your-own-adventure story told entirely through Instagram Stories, and I’m currently developing a new project exploring the future of interactive storytelling and media.

For me, it always comes back to that spark. The creative wildfire that spreads when imagination catches and a team begins moving together in the same direction.

I live for those moments.

## Work Experience
### Chief Imagination Officer @ Brain Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Strategic Imagination Lead @ IDEO
Jan 2026 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Experiential Designer, Play Lab @ IDEO
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Experiential Designer, Play Lab @ IDEO
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product & Design Intern @ Coros
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Experience Designer @ The Magic Patio
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Mechanics Researcher, Kinetic Materials Research Group @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

### Course Researcher/Assistant, Bio-Inspired Design (ME 498) @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neal-boyer

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Last updated: 2026-03-25