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Hello, I'm Sayena.

A passionate, data-driven, and creative product designer with an engineering perspective.
Over the past
8+ years, I have worked on 50+ inclusive, multimodal, and creative solutions to improve people's lives.

Currently, I'm a senior design lead at Microsoft and the community engagement director at IxDA Seattle.

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As the senior product design lead I did:

  • Visual & Interaction Design

  • Information Architecture

  • Low-Fi & High-Fi Prototype Testing

  • Customer Journey Mapping

  • Accessibility Design

  • Design Roadmap Strategy

  • Qualitative & Quantitative Research

Organization

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Case Studies
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An everyday banking account for multinationals.

As the first and lead product designer I did:

  • Visual & Interaction Design

  • Information Architecture

  • Low-Fi & High-Fi Prototype Testing

  • Motion & Animation Design

  • Design System

  • Design Operation and Strategy

  • Qualitative & Quantitative Research

Organization

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Empower enterprise admins to manage learners by grouping them, managing their playlists, and monitoring their progress.

As the lead product designer I did:

  • Visual & Interaction Design

  • Low-Fi & High-Fi Prototype Testing

  • Design Operation & Strategy

  • Requirement Gathering

  • Project Management

Organization

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A travel system that will allow multimodal commuters to transport themselves in a personalized and time-efficient manner.

As the lead product designer I did:

  • Visual & Interaction Design

  • Voice UX Design

  • Information Architecture

  • Motion Design

  • Low-Fi & High-Fi Prototype Testing

  • Formative Research

Organization

Master's capstone project advised by 

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An assistive app to facilitate the process of decision making in prescription management by offering comparable alternatives.

As the lead UX designer I did:

  • Visual & Interaction Design

  • Motion Design

  • Information Architecture

  • Low-Fi & High-Fi Prototype Testing

  • Formative Research

Organization

Sponsored and advised by 

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Other work

Writings, inspirational designs, and illustrations.

Design Mentroships

Design mentorship and skillsharing sessions

CarePack

CarePack: A one-week UX case study

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Dragon - SpaceX illustration

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A STEM lesson plan using Arduino Uno and Processing (Microsoft Education)

Empathy in design

Building empathy through history and art

Intro to intuitionistic design

How to bridge intuition to rationality in a design process.

Life of an immigrant

Life of an immigrant: My journey as an Iranian immigrant

Empathic analyzer

Become an empathic analyzer.

Design process

Design operation & strategy

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