Sama Shah

Product Designer

Designed an accessibility map for airplane passengers to plan a their time at the arrival airport before landing.

Designed a wayfinding experience that increases one’s radius of understanding of their environment in Downtown LA to encourage exploration and spontaneous discovery.

Conducted user testing with doctors at the Ellison Institute of Technology to design an app for Oura ring clinical studies connecting doctors and patients between appointments. I designed prototypes with figma, and coded a functional MVP using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and P5.js.

- With $250k I led a team to design a material science maker space and innovation lab and program curriculum for students ages 8-21 to build physical and digital products with 3D CAD, woodworking, laser cutting, fabric, electronic hardware, and the adobe creative cloud
- Pitched design deck to the founders of Howmet Aerospace Company and SoLa Tech. Build out is approved and started June 2024
- Initiated a team to build out an AI library to incorporate into their physical lab, aiming to transform access to learning in innovation labs

Worked on building and implementing a new Neo Brutalism design system and User Experience for an app that facilitates HackSC’s USC’s premiere Hackathon. Increased app adoption by 50%. Received positive feedback about organization and facilitation of the app in relation to programming.

Created a high fidelity prototype of my design of a redesigned bluetooth speaker for college students in small living spaces.

Using a Particle Argon, I programmed (C++) and wired a prototype of a functioning vending machine for saunf, an indian mouth freshener similar to candy.

What if the forts and corners I snuck into as a kid were scaled up into a home away from home today?

- With $250k I pioneered the design of a material science maker space and innovation lab and program curriculum for students ages 8-21 to build physical and digital products with 3D CAD, woodworking, laser cutting, fabric, electronic hardware, and the adobe creative cloud
- Pitched design deck to the founders of Howmet Aerospace Company and SoLa Tech. Build out is approved and started June 2024
- Initiated a team to build out an AI library to incorporate into their physical lab, aiming to transform access to learning in innovation labs

- Design, research, and develop an AI Chicago Taxi Service tool using BigQuery, SQL, and and Vertex AI within the Google Cloud Platform
- Pitched and implemented a CVE API integration solution to build an AI vulnerability analysis product for a Fortune 500 company

- Storyboarded, filmed, and edited 3 product videos advertising a software testing tool for their official YouTube and LinkedIn channels
- Scheduled consistent weekly meetings with my leader and coworkers to successfully send in deliverables