About Me.

© 2026

© 2026

I’m Mahtab — a product designer based in Amsterdam.

I started out as an architect in Copenhagen and Tehran, designing buildings and public spaces. That’s where I learned to think in environments rather than interfaces: how people move, decide and come back within a system. It’s still how I work. I care less about how one screen looks than about whether the whole product holds together across users, teams and touch-points.

Over the past six years I’ve applied this to digital products. I designed search and listings for a 50M-user platform, built style guides andf design systems that became a team’s single source of truth, and helped a pre-launch product succeed by cutting it down to what mattered. Some of my best work has been arguing for what not to build.

I’m most at home in complex, multi-stakeholder problems: messy workflows, competing needs, products that have grown faster than their structure. My job is to find the system underneath and make it feel effortless.

Outside work, I’m usually spotting patterns in how people behave, identifying plants on a walk, or having dinner with loved ones.

Experience

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Senior Workplace Service & UX Designer

BimeBazar, Tehran

2025 - 26

Built the workplace experience from scratch as the company grew from 200 to 500 people, and redesigned how teams meet, which cut interruptions by 23%.

Senior Workplace Service & UX Designer

BimeBazar, Tehran

2025 - 26

Built the workplace experience from scratch as the company grew from 200 to 500 people, and redesigned how teams meet, which cut interruptions by 23%.

Senior Product Designer

Melkino, Tehran

2024 - 25

First designer at a B2B platform for real-estate agents. I cut it down to its SaaS core to get it through incubation.

Senior Product Designer

Melkino, Tehran

2024 - 25

First designer at a B2B platform for real-estate agents. I cut it down to its SaaS core to get it through incubation.

Senior Product Designer

GSM, Tehran

2023 - 24

Designed the marketplace MVP from scratch for a mobile-tech media brand, and redesigned the product page to lift engagement by 16%.

Senior Product Designer

GSM, Tehran

2023 - 24

Designed the marketplace MVP from scratch for a mobile-tech media brand, and redesigned the product page to lift engagement by 16%.

UX Designer

Divar, Tehran

2021 - 23

Owned Real Estate listings and search on Iran’s largest classifieds platform (50M+ users) and cut duplicate ads from 10% to 4%.

UX Designer

Divar, Tehran

2021 - 23

Owned Real Estate listings and search on Iran’s largest classifieds platform (50M+ users) and cut duplicate ads from 10% to 4%.

Head of Design

Tehran Urban Innovation Center [TUIC], Tehran

2019 - 21

Solely designed the Circular Collection of Cases, a web product that turned a 97-variable urban workshop method into an interactive research tool.

Head of Design

Tehran Urban Innovation Center [TUIC], Tehran

2019 - 21

Solely designed the Circular Collection of Cases, a web product that turned a 97-variable urban workshop method into an interactive research tool.

Architect

Grøning Arkitekter, Copenhagen

2018 - 19

Designed the urban experience for the Sluseholmen Syd waterfront and mentored two interns.

Architect

Grøning Arkitekter, Copenhagen

2018 - 19

Designed the urban experience for the Sluseholmen Syd waterfront and mentored two interns.

Architectural Intern

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Copenhagen

2016

Contributed to the public-space design of Hästen 21 in Stockholm.

Architectural Intern

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Copenhagen

2016

Contributed to the public-space design of Hästen 21 in Stockholm.