Parnian Samareh Afsari — Product Manager
👋 Hi! I’m Parnian, a Product and UX designer based in Berlin. 🕰️ With a background in architecture and project management, I transitioned to UX design in 2022, to blend my love for design with technology in a fast-paced environment. 🎨 Ever since I can remember, I've loved solving problems through design and discovered that UX allows me to incorporate data and usability testing to create a useful and accessible product. ✨ I've been working as an architect and project manager since mid-2017. Throughout this time, I've learned a great deal and gained valuable experience that I bring with me. During this journey, I learned: ✅ Design thinking, a non-linear process requiring iterations to create a useful product. ✅ Coordinating with various disciplines, involving engineers, managers, and other stakeholders from day one saves time and money, and results in more practical solutions. ✅ User-centric approach, arranging solutions around users' needs and empathizing with them while considering limitations, and managing stakeholders. ✅ Problem-solving, taking a systematic look at every issue and seeing it as related parts that affect each other while changing one. ✅ Fail early, creating a product in your cave and back after a while is a big mistake. Testing early and often helps to recognize the painpoints and glitches fast. It's better to fail early to save money and time. ✅ Open to feedback, having critique sessions regularly, and presenting my work early and often -in either profession or school- helped me gather different perspectives and solve the issues before putting too much effort into it. ✅ Attention to details, having a meticulous eye to discern why some designs work and some don’t, which non-designers may perceive but struggle to articulate. ✅ Aesthetics and functionality, forms follow function is what I believe in. Practicality comes first in a solution, but aesthetics also aren't just something to tack on at the end.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer with a strong focus on UX in the SaaS industry.
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Experience: 4 yrs 8 mos
Career Highlights
- Expert in UX design with a strong architectural background.
- Proficient in usability testing and design thinking methodologies.
- Demonstrated success in improving user engagement and product efficiency.
Work Experience
Futurice
UX/UI Designer (5 mos)
SPICED Academy
UX/UI Design Coach (0 mo)
Lucid Genomics
Product Designer (3 mos)
Amendio
Product Designer (6 mos)
Adaverse.Solutions
Product Designer (7 mos)
Karafs
Product Designer Intern (3 mos)
Career Break
Career transition (6 mos)
NEGIN SHAHR AYANDEH
Project Manager (9 mos)
Saxtar-e-Peyvaste Consulting Engineers
Architectural Designer (1 yr 1 mo)
RMJM
Architectural Designer Intern (2 mos)
Self-employed
Architecture & Graphic Designer (2 yrs 5 mos)
Education
Master's degree at Shahid Beheshti University
BArch at Shahid Beheshti University
at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)