Dipali Aphale
I interrogate complex systems, and turn insights into opportunities to design inclusive and elegant experiences for people and our planet.
I lead new product development and evangelize strategic foresight methods across the AI Infrastructure organization at IBM. My work is guided by speculative futures, weak signals, patterns in data, and emerging technology.
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Design Lead, AI & Strategic Foresight
(AI Accelerators, Synthetic Data, AIOPs, Firmware)
IBM
Board Member, Finance
Oasis for Girls
Design, Identity, Growth
OMNI(SCIENT) ↗
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Building T3: an end-to-end tracking, testing, and treatment app for women’s metabolic & hormonal health conditions
at Stanford
Making a short film
with Marco ↗
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Executive Education, Finance & Strategy
Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2026
Master of Art, Design & Entrepreneurship
Royal College of Art, 2019
Bachelor of Industrial Design
NC State University, 2017
Eminence
IBM Synthetic Data Sets won “Best AI Solution — Data Insights & Knowledge Management”
FinTech Futures Banking Tech Awards USA
Collection
ESC TO (KZN)
2026
ESC TO (KZN) is a message and a movement to those who dare to find themselves. The album is a sonic experiment by MILLER.
Photography by Mia Walton
Videography by Alex Hu Haines
See more at OMNI(SCIENT) ↗
T3
2026
Metabolic and hormonal conditions are the most common health concerns that women face. The current landscape of medical care is fragmented and outdated, leading to long-term health risks and lower quality of life. T3 is a disruptive end-to-end tracking, testing, and treatment platform designed to empower women with advanced technology and psychological safety through a unified experience for managing complex health challenges.
Designed at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Spyre AI Accelerator
IBM Infrastructure
2023-2026
IBM Spyre AI Accelerator allows enterprises to orchestrate multiple AI models for solutions such as fraud detection, retail automation, insurance claims fraud, and more. The card’s architecture is purpose-built with cores specifically designed for matrix and vector multiplications that are essential to AI workloads, while also boasting higher energy efficiency than competitors.
Leading the design and research of user experiences spanning card installation, firmware configuration, model deployment, and hardware telemetry.
Synthetic Data Sets
IBM Infrastructure
2023-2025
IBM Synthetic Data Sets are a family of enterprise-grade data sets designed to enhance AI models. They provide easy access to high-quality non-PII data, and significantly speed up the AI model lifecycle by reducing the pre-processing efforts of data scientists. These data sets are extremely realistic because they are generated through a technique called Agent Based Modeling, where information is derived from statistical distributions found in anonymous population, financial, and weather data.
Led the design strategy and research — focused on 0-1 product definition, customer experience, and GTM.
Trends Report
IBM Strategic Foresight Guild
2026
The first annual Trends Report from IBM's Strategic Foresight Guild helps product teams and strategists make sense of the recent trends that shaped technology. As the pace of change accelerates, having a clear view of what's emerging matters more than ever. This report isn't about predicting the future — it's about equipping teams with signals and insights to navigate the year ahead with more confidence.
Authored by Dan Silveira, designed by Dipali Aphale.
Future Fest
IBM Strategic Foresight Guild
2024-2026
Future Fest is an annual event hosted by the IBM Strategic Foresight Guild. We bring designers, technologists, and futurists together to evangelize speculative design methodologies and conduct interactive workshops that empower IBMers to broaden their skills in creative product development.
Guild leading committee and visual design lead.
Energy Asset Management
IBM Consulting
2022
IBM Maximo® Application Suite is an asset lifecycle management solution that streamlines the maintenance, inspection, and reliability of equipment that powers critical technology infrastructure. Leveraging generative AI and advanced analytics empowers business leaders to proactively invest in assets and significantly increases safety for technicians.
I led a series of workshops with end users and decision makers ranging from business landscaping, opportunity identification, technical discovery, user experience design, and risk assessment in order to create a POC for technician automations at critical energy asset sites. This initiative opened up a $1M+ pipeline of POCs with a large technology company.
Virtual Airport Service Agent
IBM Consulting
2021
International airports have complex navigation with few human touch points for guidance. An AI-powered virtual avatar was designed to offer customer service experiences, focusing on intuitive and emotionally intelligent problem resolution with users through facial expression mimicking.
Design and research for voice UX and AI assistant workflows.
In collaboration with Soul Machines ↗
SpeechLab Beta
IBM Consulting
2021
SpeechLab was IBM’s internal speech-to-text platform, empowering users with an intuitive UI to easily transcribe text from multiple formats and analyze patterns.
Conducted mixed method research to uncover gaps and opportunities in features and overall information architecture in preparation to productize SpeechLab for enterprise client use.
Platform Management
IBM Infrastructure
2023
The firmware experience on IBM Z® bridges the hardware to the rest of the infrastructure stack. These critical experiences span resource provisioning, secure user permissions, workload balancing, network connectivity, and system automations.
I built the design research practice from the ground up and established a quarterly research program where the team was empowered with timely and reliable insights.
Everlaw
2020
Everlaw is redefining equity and accessibility in the legal justice system. They offer cloud-native AI-powered e-discovery software for law firms, corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and educators. Everlaw brings simplicity, modernity, and speed to an industry that is essential to upholding the rights of people. The company has a powerful market presence, achieving unicorn status in their Series D round.
Swiss army knife for growth and brand spanning identity, web, product marketing, events, and interiors. Operationalized the design practice to handle 4x more projects by streamlining templates and design systems, creating best practices, and outsourcing production design.
Source
2025
Source is a personal shopping app that attempts to reduce overconsumption behavior by prompting users to resell similar items or to browse their own closet for similar items whenever they land on a retail checkout page.
Designed at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ova
2017-2019
In spite of affecting 20% of women in the United Kingdom, there are no public health initiatives to diagnose Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), the most common chronic female hormonal condition. Ova is a campaign and at-home testing kit that promotes early-stage screening of PCOS, empowering girls to seek medical support early enough to mitigate long term health risks. This project uncovers hard truths about public care delivery for women in the UK, and explores solutions to shift health autonomy to individuals.
Thesis project while studying at Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, and was selected for the InnovationRCA Incubator.