# Neel Pendse

> UX/ UI, HCI, & Industrial Designer - Product Development | Design Generalist

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/neelpendse

I’m a UX/Interaction and Industrial Designer passionate about building impacatful, accessible, and immersive experiences at the intersection of design, healthcare, and XR. With a focus on research-driven design, I am on a mission to create products that bridge technology and human-centered innovation.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Researcher @ DFSG - Studio School
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### AI/UX Product Design & Researcher (Accessibility, Computer Vision) @ Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Contributing to the 0→1 design of a multimodal AI operating system spanning voice, gesture, and visual interactions, translating computer vision and AI perception capabilities into intuitive system-level interaction models.

Defining behavioral guardrails, reusable design patterns, & building a scalable design system.

Rapid prototyping concepts using Cursor, Claude Code, and Figma MCP to translate interaction ideas into functional experiences.

### User Experience Designer/ Researcher @ PUSH Studio
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Chicago, IL
- Developing an AR unity app for DePaul campuses, using Google’s Geospatial technology, enabling intuitive navigation with landmarks, safety resources, & transit points, while also creating a platform to showcase student work for an immersive campus experience.
- Led research & co-design sessions with campus tour guides and students, to uncover key pain points.

- Built a design system with Horizon UI kit, assisted with unity asset development & UX to create an immersive & intuitive training experience for campus officers on Meta Quest 3.
- Conducted comprehensive user testing to refine interface elements and improve the user journey, making the training experience fun and competitive.

### Design and R&D @ Rhaeos
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Chicago, IL

### Research Assistant @ DePaul University Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
2024
Developing smart wearables for health monitoring with Professor Mahdi Pedram. Research focusing on smoking pattern recognition for patients in rehab, UVR monitoring for Melanoma patients, and Calorie tracking for Diabetic patients.

### Product Designer (User Experience Design) @ 47Billion
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | India

### Founding Product Designer @ Studio Xyst
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Pune District

### Product Design Consultant @ futuring
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pune District

### Industrial Design Intern @ futuring
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Maharashtra, India

### Design Intern @ Nolte India
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bangalore


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction
DePaul University

### Advanced Product Design
Offsite

### Bachelor of design in Industrial and Product Design
Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neel-pendse
- Portfolio: https://neelp.framer.website/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13