Hi 👋,

I am Riya Patel

A Product Designer and a Creative Technologist. I am working on AI simulation software for testing autonomous driving vehicles at Five AI (a Bosch company), and I am an alumna of the Royal College of Art.

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Currently

Building tools for safer
autonomous driving

🗓️ March 2024 – present
Team: Scenario catalogue

Design the SaaS responsible for coordinating simulation tests.

🗓️ April 2023 – March 2024
Team: Real-world drive assessment

Enabled improved analysis with rule evaluation for driving data from lidars.

🗓️ October 2021 – April 2023
Team: Scenario Editor

0→1 designer for a B2B SaaS for test engineers to orchestrate driving scenarios in a 3D-rendered world.

Selected Work

Projects & case studies

Laptop mockup showing the Scenario Catalog results page
Case Study 1

Scaling Scenario Testing

Redesigned a code-heavy, autonomous-driving developer workflow spanning local and CI/CD pipelines into a structured GUI.

Impact

  • 2 weeks → 2 days to create a test, down from an expert-only process
  • 67% of feature teams migrated to the new workflow within one quarter
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Scaling AI simulation through traceable calculation⚑ Pending Patent
Case Study 2

Scaling AI simulation through traceable calculation

Owned the design for test engineers to create multiple variables of a scenario for large-scale testing.

Impact

  • 50% faster at creating complex scenarios
  • 17% more scenario revisions — engineers iterating, not accepting
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Orchestrating Traffic Signals
Case Study 3

Orchestrating Traffic Signals

Designed the tooling that let engineers orchestrate entire junctions without editing each traffic light individually.

Impact

  • Reduced orchestration time by ~30 mins for a 4–10 signal roundabout
  • ~8% increase in traffic-signal–based scenario creation post-redesign
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Internshala
Case Study 4

Internshala

Owned the visual design for the internship hiring events and user onboarding for 6 months.

Impact

  • Contributed to a 133% increase in student registrations (1.5M to 3.5M) and a 100% increase in company onboarding (40k to 80k)
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Scitories — Snowpore⚑ Designed & Developed by Me
Case Study 5

Scitories

Led the design of Scitories — a platform to communicate the adverse effects of climate change through immersive WebGL-based stories.

Impact

  • 24,000 people visited Scitories during a three-day virtual exhibition — exploring Snowpore's melting world at their own pace
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MADD Final Show 2021
Case Study 6

MADD — Virtual Exhibition

Designed an exhibit of projects by 30+ multidisciplinary designers during the COVID period.

Impact

  • “Thanks for all the amazing work on the site — it's coming together really well” — a designer
  • “Stunning work! Final Show: 5 days of events and amazing work from graduating MA Digital Direction students” — a virtual visitor
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