about Maryam
Maryam is an interdisciplinary designer based in BC، Canada specializing in User Interface & Experience Design(UI/UX). Her background is in Industrial Design and she is passionate about storytelling, emerging technologies, building communities, and information design. Art and science are her inspirations and her professional goal is to implement responsible, minimalistic and ethical design.
Available for full-time or contract positions.
specialties
digital design
web & mobile app UI, visual design, brand guideline, data visualization, icon design, digital illustration & more
research & experience design
market research & discovery, UX/UI audit, brand identity, rapid prototyping, user testing, micro-interactions, persona creation & more
let’s talk!
azarnia.maryam@gmail.com
+1-604-600-8015
what I’m up to
Some of my resources in attempts to be a conscious designer
books what I’m reading
- The Conscious Creative by Kelly Small
- Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
2020 books that I read & enjoyed
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
websites that I check often / like
- Swiss Miss
- This is Colossal
- Design Milk
- Fast Company
- Eye on Design by AIGA
- Code Acdemy
- Site Inspire
- All is Apart
- Code Pen
- Smashing Magazine
- It’s nice that
- awwwards
- Women Who Design
- Behance
podcast
- Design Matters by Debbie Millman
- Pop Culture Happy hour by NPR
- Pivot by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
- The Argument by the New York Times
- Design Time by Jessica Romm
- Everything is Alive by Radiotopa
- Future of Everything by WSJ
- Design Better by Invision
- Modern Love by New York Times
- How I Built This by Guy Raz
- The Intelligence by Economist
petting my awesome cats, Lord Asal and Princess Aaloo (you can check out the video they made for me here)
&
baking, planting, making crafts, doodling & biking in beautiful BC.
