From hospital floors to driver studies
I'm a UX designer and researcher in Munich. I got here by watching people fight with machines that were supposed to help them.
The hospital
As a biomedical engineer at Al-Zahra Medical Center I maintained the devices and worked every day in the hospital information system. What I actually spent my time on was watching nurses and doctors invent workarounds: sticky notes on monitors, settings memorised because the menu was too deep, critical values buried three screens down. The hardware was fine. The interfaces were the failure point. That was the moment engineering stopped being enough for me.
The lab habit
Before that, in a mobile-robotics lab, I built and tested electronics for rescue robots. The loop was always the same: set up a test, watch what fails, fix it, test again. I still work that way. Today the test is a usability study or an eye-tracking experiment, and the thing that fails is a design assumption.
Now
I'm finishing an M.Sc. in User Experience Design at TH Ingolstadt. My thesis, in Prof. Andreas Riener's HCI group, is a controlled eye-tracking study on whether simpler in-vehicle interfaces reduce the driver's visual demand. Alongside it I design the visual identity of the THI Startup Center. I'm looking for a role, in industry or a PhD, where the daily question is whether the design actually helps.
The path so far
Rescue-robot electronics, MRL-AMRL, Qazvin
Biomedical engineering, Al-Zahra hospital, Rasht
UI/UX design, Sib Sabz studio
M.Sc. UX Design, TH Ingolstadt
Klingele research project · THI Startup Center
Eye-tracking thesis, HCI Group
Outside work
What keeps my hands and head busy
Slow, counted, one stitch at a time. The most patient kind of prototyping.
Persian food for friends, mostly. A recipe is a user flow with a better reward.
Notes, essays, the occasional long letter.
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I keep taking courses. Right now: [topic].