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Hello! My name is Aya, and I am a product designer based in LA. I enjoy being a founding designer building products from zero-to-one.
In my free time you'll see me interior designing my home, hiking in California, playing chess, or traveling.
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Work Experience
An AI stylist that leverages conversational experiences and humanized personalization to redefine how people engage and shop with products online.
Syncopate is an analytics platform for investors to analyze music as an asset class. Syncopate integrates & consolidates statement data across variable sources and leverages AI for forecasting and valuation projections. I was brought in to help design an MVP for their platform.
Second designer on the team, joined before a public facing product. Royal is a platform that enables artist to sell a portion of their music royalties directly to fans. Fans could buy and trade these assets with each other to both invest and co-earn alongside their favorite artists. I lead design for all the consumer trading experience.
Worked on App Experiences on Messenger App which included features around status, presence and private messaging. I also worked on Community Messaging for Messenger.com to create a new navigation panel that supports multiple inboxes across your chats, organizing threads with friends, Marketplace, Communities and more.
Designer on the Squarespace mobile app, focusing on mobile-specific editing and site management experiences. Conducted user research to understand mobile specific needs and use cases and developed mobile strategy to retain and convert users across surfaces.
5th Product Designer at Duolingo.
Founding designer on Duolingo Stories and Duolingo Clubs. Designer on the monetization team working on features for Duolingo's premium subscription called Plus.
Interaction Designer working with clients like Apple, Kohls, and American Express.