Research-led product and service designer with an MSc from Sapienza and a BA in Industrial Design. I connect contextual inquiry, human factors, system thinking and product development—from mapping museum journeys and learning across school and home to leading a vehicle-design team from client insight to workshop-ready decisions. I also build the teaching systems that make design knowledge transferable.
Recent qualificationMSc Product & Service Design 2025 · 104/110
Design backgroundIndustrial Design BA · 17.7/20
Professional breadthDesign, research teaching & teams
Researched why English-learning experiences break between school and home: contextual observation, stakeholder perspectives and comparison of more than 90 tools revealed five discontinuities. Translated these into tangible kit components, bilingual adult support and a recurring school–home service journey; explored concepts and designed a framework for further evaluation, without claiming a completed longitudinal pilot.
Initiated an independent AR-enabled visitor-service proposal for adaptation across museums in Iran, beginning with Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Developed the visitor journey and frontstage/backstage service blueprint. The proposal gained support and approval in recurring internal meetings; implementation did not proceed.
Developed the first documented research, study and design effort in the camper field in Iran, connecting interviews, local travel practices, Iranian anthropometric evidence and iterative product decisions in a 92-page BA thesis. The Sarr product concept grows from that same study; its findings were subsequently cited in later work, as reported by the author.
Developed an independent portable podcast-recording concept with an accompanying Castbox-context business proposition: creator barriers, device interaction, alternative forms and platform channels. Not a commissioned or launched Castbox product.
Two research-led industrial product concepts: position-adaptable personal lighting and a portable waste container shaped by everyday mobility, user needs, form exploration and 3D modelling.
Istituto Massimo · contracted through New English Teaching (NET) · Rome · Sep 2024–Jun 2026
Researched and rebuilt a four-year-group English-medium D&T curriculum aligned with Cambridge IGCSE preparation. Designed briefs, lesson materials, assessment criteria and grading; taught packaging redesign, team-based luminaire design and independent product projects, refining the programme through classroom feedback.
Product & Identity Designer
Banja e Kllokotit · Kosovo (remote) · 2024
Worked with the marketing team on water-bottle product design and visual identity/brand redesign; project materials remain under an agreed non-publication commitment.
Personally led research, role allocation, ergonomics and spatial modelling, and served as design-to-workshop liaison. Direct owner interviews revealed group-trip hosting needs; evaluated options and helped decide swivel-seat, table, bed and utility mechanisms. The workshop, not the design team, physically built the conversion.
Assumed team leadership during development of a metal-frame drop-camper; supported design and realization of a prototype that was built and tested. Series production was not pursued because of cost.
Design Course & Workshop Coordinator
Inverse School · Tehran · 2020–2022
Organised design courses, specialist workshops and instructors; coordinated participants and teaching resources and facilitated design-learning activities.
Production Assistant, Model-making & Precision Craft
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art · 2020–2021; Gohar Neshan · 2014–2016
Museum production assistance, model-making and fabrication across wood, foam, resin, wire and other materials, alongside design discussions; earlier goldsmithing, stone-setting and precision assembly.
Additional Teaching, Workshops & Design Community
Rome / Tehran · selected experience
Taught English and English-medium Geography through NET in 2024–2025; developed learning resources and assessments. Also contributed to teaching assistance, design workshops and a student design association founded earlier in the academic period.
Education
MSc — Product and Service Design
Sapienza University of Rome · 2022–2025 · Awarded 12 Dec 2025 · 104/110 · English-taught programme; human factors, interaction design, people-centred design and prototyping.
BA — Industrial Design
PARS Art & Architecture University, Tehran · 2016–2020 · 17.7/20 · Thesis: camper-system design for the Iranian context.
BSc — Information Technology Engineering
Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch · completed programme, 2013–2016 · engineering, programming and computing systems.
Methods, tools & languages
Design & research: Contextual inquiry, observation, stakeholder research, benchmarking, synthesis, design requirements, journeys and service scenarios, product concepts, sketching, visual communication, prototyping and team coordination.
Tools & technology: Figma, Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, SolidWorks, KeyShot, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace; Unity/AR-VR, Arduino and programming foundations.
Languages: Persian — Native · English — C1 · Italian — A2.