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.
Contact
- Experience13 years
- DegreeM.S. HCI, Georgia Tech
- FigmaAbout 8 years
- AvailableRight away
- WhereAtlanta or remote
Experience
2025 - 2026 (stepped back)
Atlanta, GA
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
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
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
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
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
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
