From Biomedical Engineering to UX Design
About Me
I started my career as a biomedical engineering student, mostly because my professor refused to let me switch to electronics, robotics, or software engineering!!! Not because I wasn’t capable, but because I was finishing courses too fast!!
He told me, “Graduate sooner so you can apply for better opportunities.”
So I stayed. And I listened… kind of. Because instead of quietly being a “normal” biomedical student, I ran straight into the robotics lab, the place full of wires, sensors, weird tools, half-debugged robots, and 3AM “it finally works!” moments. That lab became my second home. And then it happened: I opened Altium Designer for the first time. I realized engineering wasn’t just logic and circuits, it could be beautiful.
The symmetry, the patterns, the tiny details, the clean PCB layouts…
That was the moment I fell in love with design inside engineering.
Electronic design felt like art that worked.
I knew right away: I can’t be someone who chooses just one field.
I needed engineering + design + programming + creativity all together.
And I always believed it would matter one day, that a designer who understands electronics or an engineer who understands UX has an advantage.
After graduation, I landed a great internship in Tehran at one of the well-known biomedical companies. But slowly, everything became extremely technical, pure programming, pure engineering. No creativity. No design. Just wires, devices, and documentation. I started feeling like something was missing. I wasn’t unhappy, but I knew this wasn’t my whole passion. I needed something softer, more human, more creative, something that connected the technical side of my brain with the design side of my heart.
Then one day, after work, back in the dorm in Tehran, I heard two girls talking about “UX design.” I didn’t know what it was, but the way they described it sounded like the exact intersection I had been searching for. So I followed it.
I took an internship through a friend-of-a-friend, opened Figma, and suddenly I was working 14–17 hours a day without feeling tired. That’s when I realized:
I didn’t just find a field, I found my passion.
Now I’m a UX/UI designer with an engineering brain, a design heart, and a tiny part of me forever loyal to that robotics lab and its beautifully messy circuit boards.
Work experiences
UX/UI Designer & Graphic Designer
Startup Center of THI
Nov 2024 – Present
UX/UI Designer
OpenPack
March 2024 - July 2024
UX/UI Designer (Volunteer)
Car2x Laboratory
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Product and UX/UI Designer
Sib Sabz
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
UX/UI Designer & Graphic Designer
Startup Center of THI
Nov 2024 – Present
UX/UI Designer
OpenPack
March 2024 - July 2024
UX/UI Designer (Volunteer)
Car2x Laboratory
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Product and UX/UI Designer
Sib Sabz
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
UX/UI Designer & Graphic Designer
Startup Center of THI
Nov 2024 – Present
UX/UI Designer
OpenPack
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
UX/UI Designer (Volunteer)
Car2x Laboratory
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
Product and UX/UI Designer
Sib Sabz
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
