Vaishakh Pilatholi - Head of Design
Designing stuff since 2007
Currently, Head of Design at SigTuple
Fragments of me
Led AI Medical Device Design
For regulated diagnostics ecosystem.
Reduced review time by 40%
In clinical reporting platform.
Built design teams
From ICs to solid leaders.
Global brands delivered
Kia, Hyundai, Lenovo, Subway.
FDA/CE compliance expertise
Safety-critical UX design.
Design system rollout
Cross-platform and scalable.
Led AI Medical Device Design
For regulated diagnostics ecosystem.
Reduced review time by 40%
In clinical reporting platform.
Built design teams
From ICs to solid leaders.
Global brands delivered
Kia, Hyundai, Lenovo, Subway.
FDA/CE compliance expertise
Safety-critical UX design.
Design system rollout
Cross-platform and scalable.
Hands-on design leader
I lead by example, staying close to my team and the craft.
Delivered for global brands
Products used by millions across multiple countries.
I'm a product and UX leader specializing in designing complex, safety-critical healthcare and AI-powered diagnostic systems. My work centers on translating intricate clinical workflows into intuitive experiences that professionals trust and rely on in high-stakes environments.
Over the years, I've shaped design strategy and execution for regulated medical software—from pathologist reporting platforms to enterprise-wide design systems used in high-volume labs. I partner closely with engineering, clinical, data science, and regulatory teams to ensure that usability, safety, and compliance are all seamlessly integrated into the product experience.
I bring a product-first mindset to every challenge, building scalable systems, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and driving clarity in highly complex domains. My design leadership has helped deliver reliable, user-centered solutions that improve efficiency and confidence for users at every level.
I love what I do!
Experience
SigTuple
HealthcareLeading end-to-end product design for AI-powered medical devices and clinical reporting platforms, building scalable systems and clear, safety-critical user experiences.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Led design strategy across a regulated diagnostics ecosystem, spanning medical device UI, pathologist-facing reporting applications, and a cross-platform design system.
- Owned safety-critical device workflows including onboarding, test initiation, alerts, calibration, results, and maintenance for 24/7 lab environments.
- Planned and led a formative usability and human factors study for a blood analyzer, evaluating readability, touch interaction, typography, color, and gloved usage in clinical environments.
- Defined UX standards and quality benchmarks, balancing usability, hardware constraints, and regulatory expectations in close collaboration with Product, Engineering, QA, and Clinical teams.
- Established and governed a cross-platform design system covering interaction patterns, typography, and status semantics.
Impact & Outcomes
- Identified and mitigated high-risk interactions such as missed alerts, incorrect data entry, quality control, software updates, and network setup, reducing use-related risk in real-world lab environments.
- Validated 10mm touch targets, improved font size and contrast, optimized keyboard spacing, and ensured alert visibility from 2–6m under bright lab lighting for reliable gloved interaction.
- Redesigned the clinical reporting application to surface critical findings upfront and pair quantitative summaries with visual evidence, reducing review time by ~40% and enabling confident reviews often under 2 minutes.
- Improved diagnostic confidence and consistency through AI-assisted review and reclassification workflows, driving higher adoption among pathologists.
- Accelerated delivery and scalability through the design system by reducing rework and inconsistencies, enabling faster feature rollout, white-label deployments, and team onboarding.
- Aligned design outputs with FDA and CE usability and risk-management expectations to support regulatory readiness.
Newage Global
Freight ForwardingLed the end-to-end UX transformation of a large-scale freight forwarding platform, modernizing a complex legacy Oracle-based system into a scalable, user-centered product ecosystem supporting core logistics workflows.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Built, mentored, and managed a multi-disciplinary UX team, establishing design workflows, quality benchmarks, review processes, and a shared design culture aligned with product and engineering teams.
- Defined and rolled out a company-wide design system, standardizing interaction patterns, UI components, and visual language to reduce inconsistencies and significantly improve design and development velocity across products.
- Partnered closely with product, engineering, and business leadership to shape product roadmaps, map end-to-end user journeys, and define experience principles aligned with operational and business goals.
- Designed and reviewed high-fidelity UX and UI solutions across iOS and Android platforms, improving usability, adoption, and stakeholder confidence in mobile-first workflows.
- Contributed to product scale-up and platform evolution, influencing system architecture and feature prioritization from a UX and usability perspective to support long-term growth and extensibility.
NHANCE NOW
CX PlatformLed end-to-end UX for a customer experience SaaS platform across Web, Mobile, and PWA, defining the core information architecture and user flows while improving usability, consistency, and performance. Drove design decisions through user interviews and beta testing, and partnered closely with engineering teams on front-end implementation and optimization, while also contributing to hiring, mentoring, and maintaining strong design quality across the team.
Varchas Technologies
Product StudioLed UX across multiple B2B and B2C products in an Agile environment, building design systems and style guides aligned with Material Design and Apple HIG, while bridging product strategy and execution to ensure business goals were consistently reflected in the user experience.
Web Channel Designers
Digital AgencyBuilt and led a team of 3 designers. Contributed to information architecture, wireframing and visual design of various projects (KIA, Hyundai) for web and mobile.
Refine Interactive
Design StudioWorked closely with user researchers to define features and interaction, leading to high-fidelity mockups of use case scenarios for the design and product teams.
Lenovo India
Consumer ElectronicsCollaborated with members of the creative services staff, developers, project managers and end users to design, build and maintain user-centered websites, web applications, and mobile apps.
CardMunch
Acquired by LinkedInCreated concept models, sitemaps, process flows, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed specifications. CardMunch was later acquired by LinkedIn.
Purplelabs
SoftwareResponsible for designing and developing the entire front-end of web applications by collaborating with the technology team and product managers.
Education
Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Interaction Design Foundation
IDF
Advanced Design & Multimedia Technology
Auriga