Tahreem Saood

Tahreem Saood

Product Designer in Toronto, she/her

About

Tahreem is a software designer and daydreamer alike, who is driven by curiosity and wonder to craft engaging software that is simple, useful and human.

She enjoys in working with ambitious, collaborative and open-minded teams working on interesting problems.

Currently she's running around Toronto, Canada bridging together her own little community of designers, builders and thinkers to exchange ideas and work with.

Projects

2023
Student-Run Thrift Store at Le'ts Talk Science

An end-to-end physical and digital service designed for students to run their own thrift store during school hours, to teach them about lowering carbon emissions and not feel too intimidated to participate.

2022
How do you choose a bank? at RBC

Generative research to dive deeper into uncovering the difficulties and financial considerations that are faced by international students who are new to Canada.

2022

Payroll is hard. Dealing with multiple systems is harder. I made it easier for millions of small-business owners to add on new employees to their payroll + make sure they avoid any tax mistakes.

Side Projects

Ongoing
Experiments

experimenting with different areas of design. some 3D, UI, Presentation Design, Visual Design etc.

Ongoing
Photos

photos I've taken both on film + digital

2023

a GPT or AI Assistant that helps your source vintage clothing pieces for the best price. It sifts through popular reselling platforms such as TheRealReal, Stockx, Grailed, Vestaire and more.

2023

generate moodboards from images sourced directly from your tumblr archive. :)

2021
Cover Art at Atlantic Records

Cover art illustrations for Sam Austins new singles on Tidal.

Education

2019 — 2023
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Industrial Design at OCAD University
Toronto, Canada

Minor in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation

President and Co-founder of OCADU Upcycled Club

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Toronto

Freelance web and brand design for clothing company Gyaltsen Earth.

2023 — 2023
Toronto, Canada

crafted an end-to-end, climate action mobile service for Canadian high-schoolers.

2022 — 2022
Remote, Canada

usability testing, card sorting and generative research across 25+ projects for personal and commercial banking platforms.

2022 — 2022
Remote, Canada

designing end-to-end payment and invoicing tools for small-business owners.

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Certifications

2023
UX Design from BrainStation

8-week program that teaches UX design and building design systems. Submitted a mini-capstone project within 8 weeks.

2021
Industrial Design - Offsite from Advanced Design - Offsite

Awards

2023
Finalist from Microsoft

Finalist for creating a prototype for an application that enables refurbishing companies to use Microsoft AI products to track reusable materials.

Volunteering

2023 — Now
Soccer Coach at Muzfit
Oakville, Canada

coaching soccer for kids ages 6-14 :)