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Himaad Riaz

USA basedProduct Design Engineer

Before designing,
ask the users.

14 years of designing with startups and enterprise teams. Every project starts with real people and real data, then makes the complex feel simple.

Selected work

Four problems, each one led by the people living with it. Each one opens the full story: research, prototypes, feedback and results.

One day or a thousand, the process stays.

The tools change with the job, so move them wherever you like. The process doesn’t. Every design needs data, the right questions, the people it’s for, stakeholders and experts, and collaboration, end to end.

    01Data

    Start from what the numbers and the research already say.

    02Questions

    Name the assumptions and what still needs to be learned.

    03Customers

    Talk to the people who live with the problem.

    04Stakeholders & experts

    Bring in the people who know the business and the domain.

    05Collaboration

    Build it together. There is always more to learn.

Drag a tool to another step.

Behind the work

A product designer in Dallas, Texas, with research at the start of every project.

Prototype early.

A rough prototype starts a useful conversation while there’s still time to change course.

Designed with real people.

People managing epilepsy, nurses without signal, people paying bills on the go, and teams that need one picture.

More about Himaad

The tools behind the design

Figma for the craft, and Claude, Codex and Cursor to turn ideas into working prototypes.

Figma: Designing screens and systems

  • Figma
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Grok
  • Xcode
  • Miro
  • GitHub