Resume — Naram Ziady, Product Designer

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Summary

I’m a multilingual Product Designer with a background in Computer Science who helps teams turn complex ideas into thoughtful, intuitive, and buildable digital products. I bring together user empathy, visual craft, systems thinking, and technical understanding to connect user needs, business goals, and engineering realities. I also bring a culturally aware perspective to designing for diverse users. From early research and product strategy to prototyping, design systems, and developer handoff, I help teams bring clarity to ambiguity and move ideas confidently from concept to launch.

Work experience

Product Designer — Freelance (Aug 2023 – Nov 2024, Pittsburgh, PA)

Brought a rare combination of product thinking, visual craft, user empathy, and Computer Science expertise; allowing me to challenge assumptions, anticipate implementation risks, and raise the quality of the final product.
Designed scalable systems, reusable components, and high-fidelity prototypes that improved product consistency, accelerated decision making, and strengthened developer handoff.
Partnered directly with founders, stakeholders, and engineers to align user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints, turning complex requirements into clear, buildable solutions.
Founded Naramu Designs and grew it into a commercially viable independent design brand, generating 280 organic sales in its first year without paid marketing through distinctive creative direction, product design, and audience-led storytelling.

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Product & UX Designer, Contract — Global Study UK (May 2022 – Aug 2022, Remote)

Shifted from an operational role to design an internal SaaS dashboard using Figma and prototyping tools, consolidating university data, visa-sponsorship regulations, and institutional metrics into a single view that became the team's primary reference.
Eliminated critical research bottlenecks, saving the core business team an average of 8 hours per week per user by replacing fragmented legacy processes with an intuitive, unified search query interface.

Product Designer — PropertyCard (Feb 2021 – Aug 2021, Remote)

Spearheaded product design for a complex property management platform as the foundational designer, using AI-assisted domain research to translate regional property regulations into an intuitive layout, which accelerated stakeholder approval of the design.
Overhauled core user journeys to eliminate operational friction, increasing usability testing completion rates from 20% to 100% across a validation cohort of target users compared to the legacy platform architecture.
Architected and scaled a Figma design system from scratch using Atomic Design principles and Material Design guidelines; engineered a library of 200+ responsive components that supported a corporate rebrand and ensured visual consistency across the product.
Optimized cross-functional engineering handoffs by creating detailed Figma documentation and collaborating on front-end HTML/UI QA, which reduced rework and improved alignment between design and code.

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Skills

Design & architecture

Figma
Adobe XD
Prototyping
Wireframing
User Journey Mapping
Interaction Design
Responsive Design
Design Systems
High-Fidelity Prototyping

Research & strategy

User Research
Competitive Analysis
Usability Testing
Journey Mapping
Problem Framing
Product Strategy
Design Thinking

AI & emerging technology

AI-Assisted Product Design
Prompt Engineering
Generative Prototyping
LLM Workflow Design
AI-Powered Research Synthesis
Creative Direction for Generative Media
Human–AI Interaction Design
Rapid Concept Validation
ChatGPT
Claude
Codex

Certifications

Google UX Design
Prompt Engineering

Education

Notre Dame University of Louaize (NDU) — Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (GPA: 3.35). Dean's List (6 semesters); Track & Field team, 2nd place in national 40km marathon.