Naram Ziady is a product designer based in Pittsburgh, PA, with a Computer Science background, designing web and mobile products, design systems, and the occasional poster.
Selected works
PropertyCard, Landlords aged 40 to 75 were paying for a platform they couldn’t operate: built for a tech-savvy user who didn’t exist, it turned managing your own property into a technical skill. My job was to make it require none.
FloristHeaven, Most houseplants die soon after purchase. People buy on looks, get no guidance on care, and the store disappears after checkout. Selling plants was never the problem; keeping them alive was.
Aquro: Smart Shower, Smart showers fail exactly where showers are used: wet hands and steam make screens unusable, and when the app or connection dies, the shower dies with it. The convenience they sell costs the one control a shower can’t lose.
Toters: Butler, Butler lets you request delivery of almost anything, but you committed to an order before knowing the cost or the wait, across screens where fixing one detail meant starting the whole request over.
About
After getting my computer science bachelors, I decided to pivot to design. I’ve helped teams and friends go from idea to reality. I grew as a designer step by step by constantly feeding my curiosity about design, by trying different things that brought me closer to users and businesses.
I’m a product designer who can’t stop making things.
I research it, design it, and ship it, lately with an AI pair on the keyboard. This site is the receipt.
PAGE 02 · WORKS
Works
ABOUT NARAM
naram, probably overthinking spacing
THE JOURNEY
After getting my computer science bachelors, I decided to pivot to design. I’ve helped teams and friends go from idea to reality. I grew as a designer step by step by constantly feeding my curiosity about design, by trying different things that brought me closer to users and businesses.
Frame · about-naram
01 · THE DESIGNER
02 · WHERE I’M FROM
03 · OFF THE CLOCK
about naram
THE MANIFESTO
“Good design is as little design as possible.”
- DIETER RAMS
THE JOURNEY
After getting my computer science bachelors, I decided to pivot to design. I’ve helped teams and friends go from idea to reality. I grew as a designer step by step by constantly feeding my curiosity about design, by trying different things that brought me closer to users and businesses.
FOOTNOTE · AI
built with Claude as a design-engineering pair. The full breakdown is in the journal: “how I built this site.”
naram, probably overthinking spacing
suki. yes, the same one walking around this site.
KILLINGTON, VT
INSTRUCTOR PASS · EAST COAST
PSIA CERTIFIED, LEVEL 2
instructor, 2 seasons
professionally certified in going downhill
ADMIT ONE · VOLUNTEER
BEY → CHINA
age 14, raising funds for Lushan earthquake relief
2013
ADMIT ONE · TRAVEL
BEY → ROMANIA
2024
Hello
مرحبا
こんにちは
Bonjour
BOARDING PASS · ONE WAY
BEY → USA
23 years in Beirut, Lebanon
carry-on: computer science degree
languages: العربية · English · Français · 日本語 (conversational)
SEAT 24A · NZ
PHOTOGRAPHY
06A
07A
08A
shot by me
HIKING
Chouwen - Lebanon
Kneisseh, Lebanon
Seward Range, New York
on foot whenever possible
CLIMBING
no climbing photos. climb this instead.
PIANO
currently: chopin, ballade no. 1
01 · THE DESIGNER
about naram
naram, probably overthinking spacing
THE MANIFESTO
“Good design is as little design as possible.”
- DIETER RAMS
THE JOURNEY
After getting my computer science bachelors, I decided to pivot to design. I’ve helped teams and friends go from idea to reality. I grew as a designer step by step by constantly feeding my curiosity about design, by trying different things that brought me closer to users and businesses.
FOOTNOTE · AI
built with Claude as a design-engineering pair. The full breakdown is in the journal: “how I built this site.”
Hello
مرحبا
こんにちは
Bonjour
02 · WHERE I’M FROM
BOARDING PASS · ONE WAY
BEY → USA
23 years in Beirut, Lebanon
carry-on: computer science degree
languages: العربية · English · Français · 日本語 (conversational)
SEAT 24A · NZ
ADMIT ONE · VOLUNTEER
BEY → CHINA
age 14, raising funds for Lushan earthquake relief
Product designer with a Computer Science background, comfortable across the full process: research, strategy, prototyping, design systems, and handoff. The CS side gives my design work a technical mind: detail-oriented, dissecting problems instead of stopping at the big picture, down to the component logic and edge cases. I'm multilingual, and I run Naramu Designs, a poster brand that sold 280 prints in its first year, alongside client work.
02 · EXPERIENCE
FREELANCE
Product Designer
AUG 2023 – NOV 2024 · PITTSBURGH, PA
Founded Naramu Designs and grew it into a commercially viable independent design brand, generating 280 organic sales in its first year without paid marketing, through creative direction, product design, and audience-led storytelling.
Designed web, brand, and product work for clients including Lazyleaf and Goodwood Tree, partnering directly with founders and engineers to turn requirements into buildable solutions.
Built reusable design systems and high-fidelity prototypes that shortened developer handoff and kept product decisions consistent across projects.
Designed an internal SaaS dashboard in Figma, consolidating university data, visa-sponsorship regulations, and institutional metrics into a single view that became the team's primary reference.
Saved the core business team an average of 8 hours per week per user by replacing fragmented legacy research processes with a unified search interface.
PROPERTYCARD
Product Designer
FEB 2021 – AUG 2021 · REMOTE
Led product design for a property-management platform as its foundational designer, translating regional property regulations into an intuitive layout.
Rebuilt core user journeys around three familiar interaction rules, so participants completed their journeys and retraced their steps without getting lost in validation testing.
Built a custom Figma design system from scratch and streamlined cross-functional engineering handoff with detailed documentation and front-end HTML/UI QA.
Frame · design-system · not linked anywhere, you found it
design system
Every reusable element on the site, in one place. Critique freely.
00 · TOKENS
ink #141414
paper #F2EFE9
blue (UI) #0D99FF
blue (text) #0968AA
blue (button) #0878D0
orange (button) #FFB25E
orange (fill) #FF6B35
lime #C6F24E
pink #FF9EC6
yellow #FFF321
bright blue and orange are chrome, stickers, and chips (with ink text). Buttons use the button variants: badge-shade orange #FFB25E with ink text (10.3:1) and #0878D0 blue with white text (full AA). Small text on light backgrounds uses blue (text); orange is never text.
.frame-wrap · .frame-label · .card-frame (accent shadow via --cf-accent)
08 · NAVIGATION & CHROME
naram-ziady.fig· editingautosaved⌘K
bottom #toolbar with .tool-btn (fixed on the real site) · top .chrome bars
09 · SUKI
#suki-img sprite · #suki-toggle status pill (replicas, the real ones are fixed and JS-driven)
10 · JOURNAL BITS
NEWNEW
.jr-fresh badge and its .jr-fresh-sm index dot · journal thumbs deliberately keep soft shadows: the journal is the site's quieter, scrapbook voice
11 · FIGMA SELECTION FRAME (hero)
320 × 64
selected element
.sel-box · .sel-handle · dims tag: the bright UI blue lives here, never as text
12 · COVER ART (rendered artwork)
the artwork recipe: paper ground with a dot grid, one blue selection box holding the subject (Clash Display, ink), sticker pills with 3px ink borders and 6px offset shadows, cursor chips for whoever is "in the file" (claude's is blue), a blue dims tag, and quiet mono corner labels. facts on stickers must match the live site.
sources live in art-src/ as HTML, rendered by art-src/render.swift. never hand-edit the PNGs.
13 · AQURO DIAL (archived)
the interactive three.js dial is parked, not deleted: module in archive/aquro-dial3d/ with restore steps, full history at the aquro-dial-3d git tag. the site is back to zero shipped dependencies.
“Naram is an awesome designer that has helped us deliver a multitude of projects for our clients (website design, graphics & product design). I enjoy his hands-on approach, the consulting that comes along with his services, and the accountability demonstrated throughout our collaboration.”
“Naram is an excellent web designer, who excelled in delivering a quality product in an efficient and effective manner. He was specific in understanding my goals, and also kind enough to explain some of the finer points of web design. His prices were reasonable for the top-notch work he performs, and I’d 10/10 recommend him for any web design needs you may have!”
PAGE 03 · CONTACT
Let’s get to work.
Tell me what you’re building. I read everything, and I actually reply.
COMMENTS (2)
Lazyleaf
“Naram is an awesome designer that has helped us deliver a multitude of projects for our clients (website design, graphics & product design). I enjoy his hands-on approach, the consulting that comes along with his services, and the accountability demonstrated throughout our collaboration.”
Goodwood Tree
“Naram is an excellent web designer, who excelled in delivering a quality product in an efficient and effective manner. He was specific in understanding my goals, and also kind enough to explain some of the finer points of web design. His prices were reasonable for the top-notch work he performs, and I’d 10/10 recommend him for any web design needs you may have!”