Bardia Zadeh Résumé
Résumé

Bardia Zadeh

Product design, research and the software behind it

Product designer, 13 years in, with a Georgia Tech M.S. in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction). Designs software people trust with real money and sees it all the way to launch. 315+ properties, 40+ staff and crew and $2.3M+ in bookings ran on it, handing teams back 11,500+ hours a year. Founded a design studio, led its designers through 325+ projects and sold it; stepped back from running companies in 2026 to join a product team full time.

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  • Experience13 years
  • DegreeM.S. HCI, Georgia Tech
  • FigmaAbout 8 years
  • AvailableRight away
  • WhereAtlanta or remote

Experience

2025 - 2026 (stepped back)
Atlanta, GA

Partner & Product Lead

Silverstone Management (SSM)

  • Designed the operating app for a four-partner firm managing about 250 properties. It bills back $450K+ a year in owner charges, sends owner statements tied to the company's books and hands the partners 1,500+ hours a year back.
  • Split the product into a phone-first staff app and a desktop admin panel behind one login, plus an owner portal with its own interface and privacy rules, so owners never see internal cost or markup.
  • Receipts save offline and every action is logged, with five separate safety nets against data loss. All 3,015 automated tests ran clean in August 2026.
Jul 2024 - 2026 (stepped back)
Atlanta, GA and Los Angeles, CA

Founder & Director

Palm Heaven LLC

  • Ran a 65-property short-term rental company in Puerto Rico and the mainland U.S. (15-person team, $1.44M a year in guest payments) and designed its software, putting $235K+ a year back into the business.
  • Designed profit-first pricing automation that studies a year of history (2,541 bookings) and proposes changes worth $115K+ a year. A person approves each one before it goes live, and one command undoes it.
  • Shipped CleanerProof, the crew app about 15 cleaners use daily across 31+ properties: 5,400+ hours a year back (about 2.5 full-time jobs), photo proof on 2,000+ turnovers a year and 50% fewer cleanliness complaints.
  • Replaced a vendor template with a direct-booking site for 56 homes that re-checks availability before every booking and saves $20K+ a year in platform fees.
Jun 2020 - 2024 (business sold)
Atlanta, GA

Founder & Lead UX/UI Designer

Bravo Marketing Digital Solutions

  • Led and mentored 25+ designers and delivered 325+ client websites, apps, stores and software products, from information architecture to front end.
  • After 15+ user interviews, designed a B2B SaaS platform and its design system through developer handoff; 85% of usability-test participants completed the tasks.
Aug 2017 - 2026 (sold stake)
Atlanta, GA

Co-Founder & Director of Product Design

DoorStain

  • Built a door-refinishing and wood-restoration company to 25 full-time employees in Atlanta, California and Washington DC, including restoration work at the Georgia Capitol and the Georgia Supreme Court.
  • Designed and built the booking and payments app for 6 markets on the web and crew iPhones (40+ shared screens). It replaced a spreadsheet that had handled about $887K of booked work and returns $60K+ a year in saved time and payments that no longer slip.
  • Rebuilt paid search after one campaign hit $634 per lead. The first full week after the rebuild ran at $59 per lead, 10x more leads per ad dollar.
Jan 2016 - 2026 (stepped back)
Atlanta, GA and Los Angeles, CA

Founder

BEZ Management & Marketing Group

  • Managed creators and recording artists on brand deals; 16+ of them have over 1 million followers each. Developed two client mobile games that passed 500,000 downloads and hit #1 on the App Store for 24 hours.
Mar 2013 - Jun 2017
Marietta, GA

Product Design Engineer

Micrer LLC

  • Began as an intern designing custom 3D printers. Later presented designs to clients and helped with integration.

Selected projects

Research, design systems and accessibility

  • User interviews, personas, journey maps and usability testing across 12 research case studies on bardia.dev. Built the NoticeOffice design system, checked a brand's color tokens against WCAG AA and set 44px touch targets on a dental-school app.
Project

SuperEstar (founder)

  • Founded, researched and designed a celebrity-booking marketplace; fan research (75% wanted personalized videos) set its core offers. Rebuilt it in English and Persian in 4 days.

doNext

  • AI task manager, live with paid plans. A note, screenshot or photo becomes a scheduled task with a time estimate. Shipped in 8 days, 10x faster than a typical team's first version.
Project

MindDrop

  • AI video engine that runs itself: it finds ideas, renders and uploads 9 short videos a day and learns from its own analytics, with automatic rollback and a hard spend cap.

FarsiChart

  • Created a bilingual English and Persian music-data platform: 83K real visitors a month, and Google clicks up from 8 to 71,107 per 28 days in five months.

Skills

Product design
  • user research
  • personas
  • user journeys
  • user flows
  • card sorting
  • information architecture
  • interaction design
  • wireframes
  • interactive prototypes
  • usability testing
  • design systems
  • accessibility
  • developer handoff
AI
  • AI agents with human approval and rollback
  • multi-agent workflows
  • MCP
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • v0
  • Lovable
Build
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • SwiftUI
  • Flutter
  • REST APIs
Tools
  • Figma (8 years)
  • FigJam
  • Framer
  • Storybook
  • Jira
  • Linear
  • Notion
  • GitHub
  • Vercel
  • Hotjar
  • Mixpanel
  • GA4
Languages
  • English
  • Farsi (fluent)

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science, Human-Computer InteractionGeorgia Institute of Technology, 2026
  • B.S. Computer ScienceKennesaw State University, 2020Interactive design and front-end focus. GPA 3.76, Dean's List, HOPE Scholarship.
  • Google UX Design Professional CertificateGoogle, 2023

Publications and awards

  • Author of five books, including The UX Design Process: A Comprehensive Guide (amazon.com/author/bardia)
  • Thingiverse Top Designer Award; First Place, Best 3D Printer
  • Recognition of Excellence for Georgia government restoration projects