hello, i’m naiyara
a multi-disciplinary
product designer
& researcher.
With a background in architecture and engineering research, I bring spatial thinking to digital product environments, balancing technical structure with how people navigate complex systems.
[ Location : Orlando, FL ]
A photo-based room audit and design-mentorship app that explains the why behind why a home feels off — and teaches people to fix it themselves.
A responsive urban navigator turning a text-heavy municipal page into a real-time event discovery and visit-planning hub for Downtown Orlando's most iconic park.
A Gemini-powered feature that breaks tasks into subtasks with time estimates, added to Google Calendar's task creation flow — tested with 5 participants.
Design & Illustration
Drawing & 3D Visualization
AI-Assisted Workflow
Education
What sets me apart is my interdisciplinary and multicultural approach: I bridge how things look, how they work, and how they feel. Training across architecture, engineering, and graphic design gives me spatial thinking, a habit of testing rather than assuming, and a sharp eye for visual clarity, so what I design is structured, evidence-informed, and easy to use. Having lived in Bangladesh and the United States, and taken part in diverse communities on both sides of the world, I also bring a multicultural perspective that helps me understand how people think and behave, and design for users whose needs and expectations differ.
Before I ever opened a design tool, I was sketching floor plans with LEGO bricks as a curious six-year-old — unknowingly creating my first prototypes.
That early fascination with how people interact with spaces evolved into a degree in Architecture, where I learned to think in systems and turn abstract ideas into tangible form; work as a graphic designer, which sharpened my eye for visual storytelling and brand logic; and graduate work in civil engineering, which taught me to back decisions with data instead of instinct alone.
Today, UX/UI design is where those threads converge. I approach a screen the way I once approached a building — thinking about structure, compositional hierarchy, and what someone will experience while moving through it. My passion for human psychology, along with years of taking part in diverse cultural and community activities, is why I most enjoy letting user research drive my design decisions.
