Specs
Research Scientist/Engineer III at UW CS
Hands on generalist
Design
RESEARCH
ENGINEERING
Current
Exploring the future of human centered
Exploring the future of human centered tech at the University of Washington
physical and spatial compute for accessibility
at the
University of Washington
Previously
earlier
Led UX design in banking, finance, and healthcare, impacting over 100M users and $200B in market value globally.
earlier
earlier
earlier
Selected works
last update ✦ 2023
Showcase OF
SOME OF MY MOST
IMPACTFUL WORKS
Showcase OF
SOME OF MY MOST
IMPACTFUL WORKS
Showcase OF
SOME OF MY MOST
IMPACTFUL WORKS
PRINCIPLES ✦ PHILOSOPHY
Good Design
MAKES
EVERYTHING MORE
BEAUTIFUL AND
HONORS ALL LIFE IN
THE PROCESS
Graphic elements generated using
Leonardo, Midjourney and Dall-e.
Finished in Photoshop.
I believe good design should honour all
ways of sensing life—not just the visual
but also the tactile and the kinaesthetic
and the sound, and the balance between
control and spontaneity—good design
makes everything more beautiful and
honors all life in the process
About me
PAST - present - future
SEATTLE BASED
PRODUCT
DESIGNER
FOCUSED ON
Predictable +
Consistent
BEHAVIORAL
ASSISTANCE USING
SOFTWARE AND
SPATIAL
INTERACTIONS
*and increasing shareholder value
ASIM SAYED
BE BOUNDLESS
Growing up around an architect grandfather and an artist mother, I learned to sketch before I learnt the alphabet.
By the age of 10, I was crafting everything I could think of—cars, action figures, home decor, my ideal house...
Recently, I joined UW, CS to explore what it means to improve accessibility with generative AI .
Physical, spatial and human-centered compute excite me as they hold the potential to expand human agency.
For the future, more than anything, I seek passionate, ambitious people solving brave problems to drive impactful change between the world as it is and the better place it will become.
Growing up around an architect grandfather and an artist mother, I learned to sketch before I learnt the alphabet.
By the age of 10, I was crafting everything I could think of—cars, action figures, home decor, my ideal house...
Recently, I joined UW, CS to explore what it means to improve accessibility with generative AI .
Physical, spatial and human-centered compute excite me as they hold the potential to expand human agency.
For the future, more than anything, I seek passionate, ambitious people solving brave problems to drive impactful change between the world as it is and the better place it will become.
ASIM SAYED
BE BOUNDLESS
Growing up around an architect grandfather and an artist mother, I learned to sketch before I learnt the alphabet.
By the age of 10, I was crafting everything I could think of—cars, action figures, home decor, my ideal house...
Recently, I joined UW, CS to explore what it means to improve accessibility with generative AI .
Physical, spatial and human-centered compute excite me as they hold the potential to expand human agency.
For the future, more than anything, I seek passionate, ambitious people solving brave problems to drive impactful change between the world as it is and the better place it will become.
Skills
Design systems
Design systems
Graphic design
Graphic design
Prototyping
Prototyping
User research
User research
Design facilitation
Design facilitation
Content marketing
Content marketing
Information architecture
Information architecture
LLM Evaluation and testing
LLM Evaluation and testing
Service blueprints
Service blueprints
Wireframes & UI flows
Wireframes & UI flows
Segmentation & personas
Segmentation & personas
Full-stack engineering
Full-stack engineering
Interests
Working with high performance, planet scale ambitious yet humble folks
Working with high performance, planet scale ambitious yet humble folks
Observing, adapting and expanding my knowledge and ability
Observing, adapting and expanding my knowledge and ability
Finding ways to make everybody more prosperous
Finding ways to make everybody more prosperous
Leaving nobody behind from accessing tech
Leaving nobody behind from accessing tech
Reading like its nobody’s business
Reading like its nobody’s business
Striving by my principles
Striving by my principles
Seeking God
Seeking God
Experience
Co-founder, The Pravachan
2020 - 2024 • Remote - USA, India
Co-founded The Pravachan, India’s leading self-improvement platform with 20K+ students and 1M+ subscribers.
Led product design, marketing, and operations, scaling to $100K+ ARR in 18 months.
Produced PGRadio, featuring global thought leaders like Eric Weinstein Joseph Le’doux and Scott Barry Kaufman, shaping intellectual discourse in India.
Senior UX Designer - Fractal Ink
2019 - 2021 • Mumbai, India
Led 7 high-impact projects in banking, finance, and insurance, supporting 100M+ users and $200B+ in market value for clients like McKinsey, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, and Tata.
Won an internal design hackathon among 40 participating teams for a project in mobility that became a winning pitch for the Mumbai Metro customer application design.
Mentored the 2021 batch of interns.
Software Engineer, Mastek
2018 - 2019 • Mumbai, India
Worked as a full stack developer in the Technical Expert Group for UK supermarket giant Morrisons using HTML, CSS, Javascript on Angular framework and Java, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL, deploying on AWS with Docker for mission critical tasks.
Built an automated testing suite with Selenium and Cucumber, reducing unit testing effort for the team as a side project.
Developed AR and NLP prototypes for real-time car customization and e-commerce sentiment analysis at Mastek Innovation Lab.
Founding Designer, Ebzaar
2018 (part-time) • Mumbai, India
Designed the marketplace's mobile app that boosted app downloads, increased user retention and repeat orders.
Product Management Intern, Kompass
2016 - 2017 • Mumbai, India
Analyzed user feedback and market trends with stakeholders, implementing product enhancements that boosted B2B platform engagement.
Education
University of Washington
2024 - 2026 • Seattle, USA
MS in Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Mumbai
2014 - 2018 • Mumbai, India
BS in Computer Science
Contact
Phone
+1 (206) 261 7379
asim.g.sayed@gmail.com
Skills
Design systems
Graphic design
Prototyping
User research
Design facilitation
Content marketing
Information architecture
LLM Evaluation and testing
Service blueprints
Wireframes & UI flows
Segmentation & personas
Full-stack engineering
Interests
Working with high performance, planet scale ambitious yet humble folks
Observing, adapting and expanding my knowledge and ability
Finding ways to make everybody more prosperous
Leaving nobody behind from accessing tech
Reading like its nobody’s business
Striving by my principles
Seeking God
Experience
Co-founder, The Pravachan
2020 - 2024 • Remote - USA, India
Co-founded The Pravachan, India’s leading self-improvement platform with 20K+ students and 1M+ subscribers.
Led product design, marketing, and operations, scaling to $100K+ ARR in 18 months.
Produced PGRadio, featuring global thought leaders like Eric Weinstein Joseph Le’doux and Scott Barry Kaufman, shaping intellectual discourse in India.
Senior UX Designer - Fractal Ink
2019 - 2021 • Mumbai, India
Led 7 high-impact projects in banking, finance, and insurance, supporting 100M+ users and $200B+ in market value for clients like McKinsey, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, and Tata.
Won an internal design hackathon among 40 participating teams for a project in mobility that became a winning pitch for the Mumbai Metro customer application design.
Mentored the 2021 batch of interns.
Software Engineer, Mastek
2018 - 2019 • Mumbai, India
Worked as a full stack developer in the Technical Expert Group for UK supermarket giant Morrisons using HTML, CSS, Javascript on Angular framework and Java, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL, deploying on AWS with Docker for mission critical tasks.
Built an automated testing suite with Selenium and Cucumber, reducing unit testing effort for the team as a side project.
Developed AR and NLP prototypes for real-time car customization and e-commerce sentiment analysis at Mastek Innovation Lab.
Founding Designer, Ebzaar
2018 (part-time) • Mumbai, India
Designed the marketplace's mobile app that boosted app downloads, increased user retention and repeat orders.
Product Management Intern, Kompass
2016 - 2017 • Mumbai, India
Analyzed user feedback and market trends with stakeholders, implementing product enhancements that boosted B2B platform engagement.
Education
University of Washington
2024 - 2026 • Seattle, USA
MS in Human Centered Design & Engineering
University of Mumbai
2014 - 2018 • Mumbai, India
BS in Computer Science
Contact
Phone
+1 (206) 261 7379
asim.g.sayed@gmail.com
BEFORE YOU LEAVE
I WISH YOU A
Joyful DAY TODAY AND
ALWAYS 🌹
BEFORE YOU LEAVE
I WISH
YOU A
Joyful DAY
TODAY AND
ALWAYS 🌹
From Seattle with love.
DEVELOPMENT
Made in Framer by Asim Sayed, assisted by Prathamesh Sujgure
VISUALS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations and Posters designed by Asim Sayed, assisted by Jai Gurna
ICONS
Icons are custom designed or from Google Material Icons and The Noun Project
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography and color correction by Aarv @shotbyaarv
Styled by Sanket Khandagale @sanket.khandagale
Makeup by Neha Guglani @midweekmargaritas
Art direction by Asim Sayed and Sanket Khandagale
FONTS
Fonts in use Editorial New and Neue Montreal are used under the terms of free license for personal use. Copyright © Pangram Pangram® Foundry
Fonts in use Editorial New and Neue Montreal are used under the terms of
free license for personal use. Copyright © Pangram Pangram® Foundry
FONTS
Designed by Asim Sayed © 2024
DEVELOPMENT
Made in Framer by Asim Sayed, assisted by Prathamesh Sujgure
VISUALS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations and Posters designed by Asim Sayed, assisted by Jai Gurna.
ICONS
Icons are custom designed or from Google Material Icons and The Noun Project.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography and color correction by Aarv @shotbyaarv on Instagram.
Styled by Sanket Khandagale @sanket.khandagale on Instagram.
Makeup by Neha Guglani @midweekmargaritas on Instagram.
Art direction by Asim Sayed, assisted by Jai Gurna @jai.gurna on Instagram.
FONTS
Fonts in use Editorial New and Neue Montreal are used under the terms of free license for personal use. Copyright © Pangram Pangram® Foundry
Designed by Asim Sayed © 2024
COLOPHON
From Seattle with love.
DEVELOPMENT
Made in Framer by Asim Sayed, assisted by Prathamesh Sujgure
VISUALS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations and Posters designed by Asim Sayed, assisted by Jai Gurna
ICONS
Icons are custom designed or from Google Material Icons and The Noun Project
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography and color correction by Aarv @shotbyaarv
Styled by Sanket Khandagale @sanket.khandagale
Makeup by Neha Guglani @midweekmargaritas
Art direction by Asim Sayed and Sanket Khandagale
FONTS
Fonts in use Editorial New and Neue Montreal are used under the terms of free license for personal use. Copyright © Pangram Pangram® Foundry
FONTS
Designed by Asim Sayed © 2024
DEVELOPMENT
Made in Framer by Asim Sayed, assisted by Prathamesh Sujgure
VISUALS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations and Posters designed by Asim Sayed, assisted by Jai Gurna.
ICONS
Icons are custom designed or from Google Material Icons and The Noun Project.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography and color correction by Aarv @shotbyaarv on Instagram.
Styled by Sanket Khandagale @sanket.khandagale on Instagram.
Makeup by Neha Guglani @midweekmargaritas on Instagram.
Art direction by Asim Sayed, assisted by Jai Gurna @jai.gurna on Instagram.
FONTS
Fonts in use Editorial New and Neue Montreal are used under the terms of free license for personal use. Copyright © Pangram Pangram® Foundry
Designed by Asim Sayed © 2024
COLOPHON
