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Digital spaces shape us as much as physical ones.
I design the ones worth inhabiting.
We spend 90% of our time indoors and 44% of our waking hours online. I believe both kinds of spaces shape our wellbeing, and deserve the same care. Drawing on my architectural background, I design digital environments that do more than function or capture attention. They invite pause, curiosity, and reflection, and thus are memorable.
Maybe good design makes you not have to think, but great design makes you wonder.
Experience
My Multidisciplinary Experience ensures that I can tackle your project from a unique perspective, owning the entire experience with a creative approach all the while remaining user-centered with a lasting impression.
Freelance
Experience Designer
2024 - Present
Crafting a community based wellness experience geared toward the Iranian Immigrant community in Canada. Currently collaborating as a designer on a self-realization retreat blending art and yoga, translating contemplative practices into spatial journeys. I bring UX research rigor to embodied design: mapping emotional arcs, prototyping rituals, and shaping environments where pause becomes the product.
RGE Lighting Design
Design and Strategy
2023 - 2024
Creating client facing experience, getting the company ready for penetration of international market. This included a complete competitor research and Branding/UX overhaul.
University of Oklahoma
Research and Teaching Assistant
2022-2023
Teaching assistant in spatial design and design thinking classes for undergraduate cohorts. Research assistant on the the poetics of Generative AI and Promptism, how we speak to machines, and what they reflect back. Concurrently redesigning the Art Department's website architecture and creating spatial installations that destabilize scale and unsettle perception. Work rooted in a single question: what do we stop seeing when we see every day?
Studio Gulban
Creative Director/Founder
2021 - 2022
Creative studio at the intersection of digital art, spatial design, and brand experience. Delivered 50+ client projects in illustration and 3D modeling while leading UX/UI, web development, and content strategy, growing TikTok to 60K+ followers and 1M+ views. Developed graduate curriculum on immersive art, built VR environments in Unity, and explored experimental distribution through NFTs.
Education
MSc. in User Experience Design
HÉC Montreal
2025 - 2026
Thesis exploring the tension between contemplative practice and digital mediation. Can wellness apps hold space for self-realization, or does the inward journey require something screens cannot offer, spatial embodiment, the felt experience of inhabiting a body in place?
BSc. in Architecture
University of Oklahoma
2017 - 2021
Trained in designing projects with a focus on contemplative spatial design. Investigating the relationship between built environment and inner experience, how the spaces we embody shape thought, perception, and presence.
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