INTUITIVE SURGICAL

Designing for the digital ecosystem behind the da Vinci surgical robot.

Intuitive Surgical builds the da Vinci robotic systems, the most widely adopted surgical robots in the world.


Their digital platform, My Intuitive, connects surgeons, hospital admins, sales reps, and field service engineers to training, case video, and collaboration tools.


I was embedded across four product work streams simultaneously as a visual designer.

Role

Product Designer

Timeline

2025

Team

Multiple cross-functional pods

Platform

Mobile + Desktop

Project is under NDA. Visuals shown are from publicly available sources.

healthtech

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Surgical robotics

What I worked on

01

Hospital Federation

Migrating clinicians from personal logins to hospital-managed authentication. Multiple user types, each with a different entry point, funneling through three registration routes into one experience.

flows + screens

component updates

mobile + desktop

02

CSR Dashboard

Internal tool for sales reps to pull up any surgeon's profile on-demand. Search by name or hospital, filter by role, switch between specialty and individual views.

end-to-end flows + UI

search → detail views

03

Public Profile

Surgeon-facing professional identity — accomplishments, credentials, network. US-only. Visual design and copy updates across existing screens.

Surgeon-facing professional identity ,accomplishments, credentials, network. US-only. Visual design and copy updates across existing screens.

visual design

copy updates

04

Telepresence

Remote surgical collaboration — one surgeon guiding another through a live procedure. Point-and-draw telestration on a live video feed.

Remote surgical collaboration, one surgeon guiding another through a live procedure. Point-and-draw telestration on a live video feed.

animation + visual design

session UI

Working at the intersection of healthcare and software changes how you think about craft.

At Intuitive, there's no shipping a "good enough" version and iterating later. The people on the other end of these screens are clinicians, field engineers onsite at hospitals, and sales reps sitting across from surgeons. That raised my bar for what a complete handoff looks like every state documented, every edge case covered, no ambiguity left for engineering to interpret.

© 2026 Vignesh Sanathkumar

© 2026 Vignesh Sanathkumar