Rishabh Pandey is an interdisciplinary designer with a passion for crafting compelling identities and engaging experiences that blend creativity, strategy, and cultural insight.
Born and raised near the western banks of the river Ganga and studied at some of India's most prestigious institutes, Rishabh draws inspiration from the dynamic intersection of cultures, tradition, art, and technology.
With a background in communication design, visual arts, and interactive media, Rishabh blends meaningful aesthetics with emerging technologies to craft rich, immersive experiences.
He holds a Master of Design degree in Visual Communication Design from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and is currently working toward a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at the Department of Design at IIT Guwahati. His research focuses on designing 3D body-referenced user interfaces for immersive Virtual Reality systems.
With over 6 years of professional experience and more than a decade of dedicated practice in observing, visualizing, studying, critiquing, and experimenting, Rishabh has honed his ability to translate ideas into visually and conceptually compelling designs. His work spans communication design, interaction and experience design, spatial interfaces, semiotic inquiry, design research and pedagogy.
Journal Articles
2025
Menu User Interface Design for Head-mounted Display Virtual Reality: A Systematic Literature Review
Rishabh Pandey and Keyur Sorathia
In: Computers & Graphics, 132, 104402.
Elsevier. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2025.104402 • Article Link
Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings
2025
Dadvertising in India: Shifting Gender Roles in Fatherhood – A Semiotic Analysis
Akanksha Akanksha, Rishabh Pandey, and Pratul Kalita
In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication (Digicom ’25).
Springer Series in Design and Innovation, Barcelos, Portugal 
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(Accepted) • DOI: [To be added]
2024
A Pilot Study on Hand-Referenced Menu User Interfaces for Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality
Rishabh Pandey and Keyur Sorathia
In: Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek ’24), pp. 260–263.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Tampere, Finland 
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3689445 • Article Link
Peer-Reviewed Extended Abstracts
2025
Challenging Patriarchy: A Semiotic Analysis of Evolving Fatherhood in Indian Advertising
Akanksha Akanksha, Rishabh Pandey, and Pratul Kalita
In: ICDHS14 Cultures of Design: Book of Abstracts, 14th International Conference on Design History and Studies (ICDHS ’25).
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India 
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ISBN: 978-93-344-1725-8
Mentoring &
workshops
2024
Workshop on designing for virtual reality with the National Insitute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Shillong
2024, 2023, 2022
Teaching assistant on IIT Guwahati's post-graduate certificate on UX design and HCI on Coursera
2023
Workshop on designing for virtual reality with the National Insitute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Shillong
2023
Lecture on identity design at National Institute of Design (NID), Haryana
2023
Mentor in IIT Guwahati's residential program on UX design and HCI
2022
Mentor in the training of trainers workshop on UX & HCI in VR at IIT Guwahati
2019
Lecture on branding & identity design at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru
2019
Mentor in Indifolio's portfolio day at the Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD), Delhi
On academic
jury panels
2023 / BDes program
National Insitute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Shillong
2019 / BDes program
The Design Village, Noida
Exhibitions
2018 / Group show
Impact Through Design at M F Husain Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2017 / Group show
Impact Through Design at M F Husain Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2016 / Group show
Faobum—Towards Meaning at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India
2015 / Group show
Impact Through Design at M F Husain Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2015 / Group show
All India Art Exhibition at the Gallery Artizen, New Delhi, India
2014 / Group show
100 Frames at M F Husain Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2014 / Group show
Kerala: God's Own Country at M F Husain Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Resources for designers and researchers
