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Experience

14 - 18 Feb 2022

ArcoBeat: adding new functionality to the device

  • Conducted expert interviews to identify the problems and understand user needs and requirements

  • Developed ideas of solutions within the design sprint framework and presented them in the form of an interactive prototype

  • Usability tested the new functionality with specially selected users

  • Presented the results to the company and the public audience on the final day of the UX challenge

2020 - 2021

Close reader: a closed reading tool to understand complex texts

  • Collaborated with the backend developer and translated the idea into a functional prototype in Python to test the concept in its early stages of development

  • User research to identify user needs and test the usability of the concept idea by conducting focus groups and interviews

  • Analyzed the research results using thematic analysis

  • Presented research findings in the form of design suggestions

Feb - Apr

2021

Creativibee: an open-ended play for hospitalized children

  • Used a scenario-based design approach in the research process, including market research, user research, stakeholder mapping, and context mapping

  • Collaborated with a group of students with different backgrounds to ensure stakeholder engagement with research and enable evidence-based decision-making

  • Designed a toy that provides open-ended play for hospitalized children

Sep 2019 -

Jan 2020

Redesign of the Esse3 Platform, 
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  • Applied different qualitative methods such as ethnographies, interviews, and focus groups to understand users’ needs

  • Conducted a workshop as user testing to understand the users’ problems by applying user-centered design principles

  • Presented the research findings as redesign suggestions in an interactive prototype in the Axure RP

Skills

Design

  • Wireframing

  • Prototyping

  • User persona

  • Storyboarding

Research

  • Interview

  • Questionnaire

  • Focus Group

  • Survey, Workshop

  • Usability Testing

  • Heuristic Evaluation

  • Cognitive Walkthrough

Tools

  • Adobe XD

  • Axure RP

  • Figma, Sketch

  • Adobe Photoshop

  • Adobe Illustrator

Programming

  • Python

  • R

  • HTML

  • CSS

Education

2019-2021

M.Sc. in Human-Computer Interaction
(permitted with a merit-based scholarship)

University of Trento, Trento, Italy​

Feb2021-

Jul 2021

M.Sc. in Interaction Technology 
Erasmus+ Studio exchange program

University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

2013 - 2018

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran​

2009 - 2013

High School Diploma in Science and Mathematics

National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents, Farzanegan2, Tabriz, Iran​

Publications

Jun 2022

End-user Development and Closed-Reading: an Initial Investigation.

AVI 2022: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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