# Mehdi Assadi

Mehdi Assadi is a remote worker on Himalayas, Product Designer at BlackRock, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@mehdiassadi

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I design research-backed, accessible enterprise interfaces that move from complex data to shippable products.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 67k+ USD |
| Job categories | Product Designer, UX Designer, UI Designer |
| Skills | Cursor, Figma Make, Claude, ChatGpt, Prompt Engineering, User Research, Competitive Analysis, Usability Testing, User Interviews, Contextual Inquiry, Personas, User Flows, Heuristic Evaluation, UI Design, Prototyping, Design Systems, Information Architecture, Wireframing, Accessibility Design, React, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, WordPress, Tailwind, Figma, Adobe XD, Power BI, Jira, Miro, Lovable, Journey Mapping, Data Visualization, Empathy Mapping, Inclusive Design, Google Analytics, Hotjar, Scrum, Agile, Low Code Development |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm looking to design accessible, research-backed products for complex, data-heavy problems while partnering closely with engineering and using AI tooling to accelerate iteration.
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## About

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At BlackRock, I lead end-to-end UX for secure FinTech onboarding and data-dense investment experiences, turning research and stakeholder insight into shipped iterations.

I redesigned an investment dashboard’s information architecture and visual hierarchy, improving measured task-completion speed by 30% through usability testing with seven users. I also build scalable Figma systems and use Cursor AI and Figma Make to create technically feasible React/Tailwind prototypes for faster handoff.

Previously at DePaul Innovation & Development Lab, I designed dashboards for service ticketing and ransomware intelligence, reducing analyst triage time by 75% and bringing ticket lookup below two minutes. I also helped test a RAG-based healthcare AI tool with clinical stakeholders and shipped a consulting-firm website within a 24-week timeline.

At Orion Technolab, I led feature redesigns, usability studies, and mobile-first payment prototypes for web products. I work closely with engineering and treat accessibility, risk, and regulatory requirements as design inputs from the start.
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## Experience

### Product Designer (current)

[BlackRock](https://himalayas.app/companies/blackrock). Mar 2025 - Present

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Led end-to-end UX for a FinTech secure-onboarding workflow, conducting user research and competitive analysis. Restructured information architecture of a data-dense investment dashboard, improving task-completion speed by 30%.
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Skills: UX-Research, Competitive-Analysis, Journey-Mapping, Information-Architecture, Usability-Testing, Figma, Design-Systems, Cursor, Figma-Make, React, Tailwind, Mentorship

### UX/UI Designer

DePaul Innovation & Development Lab. Jan 2024 - Feb 2025

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Led UX research and design for a service ticketing dashboard, replacing a manual Excel process with a Power BI-style dashboard. Collaborated on a ransomware intelligence dashboard and usability testing for an AI healthcare tool.
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Skills: UX-Research, User-Interviews, Clustering, Dashboard-Design, Power-BI, Information-Architecture, Wireframing, Usability-Testing, Competitive-Analysis

### UI/UX Designer

Orion Technolab. Jun 2020 - Feb 2023

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Conducted field research and designed core user flows for a sports-tech startup's web landing pages. Led feature redesigns using research and inclusive design, reducing bounce rate by 25%.
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Skills: Field-Research, User-Flows, Usability-Testing, Empathy-Mapping, Inclusive-Design, Google-Analytics, Hotjar, Wireframing, Prototyping, HTML, CSS, Scrum, Agile

## Education

### DePaul University

Master of Science, Human-Computer Interaction. 2023 - 2025

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Pursued a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction from March 2023 to March 2025.
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### JSS Science and Technology University

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science & Engineering. 2018 - 2022

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Earned a Bachelor of Information Science & Engineering from August 2018 to July 2022.
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### Concitor TCG

AI Apprenticeship, Artificial Intelligence

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Completed an AI Apprenticeship covering AI-enabled UX flows, prompt engineering, and low-code development.
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### Anthropic

Claude 101, Artificial Intelligence

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Completed Claude 101, validating skills in prompt engineering, Claude Projects, Artifacts, and AI-driven workflow optimization.
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## Tech stack

- Tailwind CSS
- Google Analytics
- Figma
- Adobe XD
- Jira
- React
- JavaScript
- HTML5
- WordPress
- Miro
- Hotjar
- Cursor
- Lovable
- ChatGPT
- Power BI

To contact Mehdi, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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