Ziyad Basheer

Ziyad Basheer

Founder in Toronto

About

Founder and CEO at Aide. Creating tools and interfaces that inform and augment humans.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Toronto

Automating customer support at scale.

2020 — 2020
Product Designer at Clockwork
San Francisco — remote

Led product direction through research, experimentation, and design from the ground-up alongside the CEO and CTO of the company. Designed app flows, prototypes, and interfaces.

2016 — 2019
UI and Product Designer at Independent

Worked for startups, agencies, non-profits, and corporations, including the United Nations. Some domains I’ve worked in include AI, healthcare, education, statistics, and border control.

2015 — 2015
Riyadh

First UX and usability lab in the region, led user research and interviews, optimized UX flows, and created wireframes and prototypes based on gathered intel.

Projects

2018

Collaborated with the OICT to design an application interface for analysts and member states to monitor borders and counter-terrorism.

Side Projects

2020

API for developers — #4 Product Hunt product of the day, active and profitable.

2019

Curated, designed, and built #1 directory for startup visas and immigrant founders.

Volunteering

2020 — Now
San Francisco — remote

Worked with the Open Library team and other volunteers to conceptualize and create a new interface for exploring books.

Education

2009 — 2013
Jeddah

Information and Communication Technology. Dropped out.

Speaking

2020

Gave a talk to up-and-coming designers on how to be maximally effective in what they choose to work on and objectively design user experiences.

Writing

2020

Applications vary but modes of interaction with data across them hold. We must decouple data from interfaces to minimize re-invention of standard UIs.

2019

On the practical limitations of human ability to create what the mind can imagine.

Contact

Twitter
Medium

Teams

Current
Aide