A portfolio is never done. It's a living reflection of who you are professionally, and if you're not evolving, you're falling behind.
Nishad Patne
UX Designer & Engineer
Creating intuitive, scalable, and elegant user experiences through research-driven design and engineering excellence.
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Featured Projects

WAT Researcher
Desktop-First Text Analytics
A case study in strategic product pivoting, describing the design & redesign and engineering of a desktop-first academic NLP tool to replace an aging desktop tool.

WAT
Writing Analytics Tool (WAT): Designing for Data-Driven Educational Transformation
A full UX redesign and design system implementation for an NLP-based educational platform, backed by teacher focus groups and iterative prototyping.

iSTART Early
Gamified Learning Ecosystem
A comprehensive case study of a large-scale EdTech platform redesign, covering student and teacher UX, module development, and AI integration.

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AI-Powered Portfolio Chatbot
A technical deep dive into building a conversational RAG AI chatbot integrated in this portfolio, using Gemini API, Oracle Free cloud and Qdrant, with detailed engineering trade-offs and design decisions.
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