Hi, I’m Sameera. I’m a product designer, speaker, and author based in Austin, TX.
My design experience includes: advertising, startups, private and public design education, DEI initiatives, executive leadership, advisory boards, consulting, and product design and development. These different experiences inform my writing and speaking.
I call Bombay, Curaçao, and Austin all “home” and I’m a staff product designer and interim manager at Netlify.
Select Talks
| Event | Topic | Date |
| Clarity 2020 | “Designing for Happiness” | Oct 2020 |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Design Week 2017 | “Making Design for Good a Part of Your Career” | Nov 2017 |
| FusionConf | “Diversity in Design” | Sept 2017 |
| Creative Mornings / Austin | “Equality” | July 2017 |
| SXSW Interactive | Panelist, “Announcing The #YesWeCode Fund” | March 2017 |
| Aggregate Conf | “Design Research leads to design decisions” | 2016 |
| Front End Design Conf | “Design Research” | June 2016 |
Select Interviews
| Title | Publication | Date |
| Actually following through on DEI 📘 | Work Appropriate with Helen Ann Peterson | Sept 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Small Acts Can Invite More Voices 📘 | Indeed’s Design team | Nov 2022 |
| Inclusive Design Communities 📘 | ShopTalk Show | Oct 2022 |
| Design Education 📘 | Code & Pixels | Oct 2022 |
| Creating inclusive places 📘 | Design to Be | October 2022 |
| Leading inclusively 📘 | Things Worth Learning | Sept 2021 |
| Episode #355 | Shop Talk Show | Oct 2018 |
| Bootcamps Aim To Solve Diversity Problem | NPR (KUT) | Mar 2017 |
| What Comes Next Is The Future | Documentary | 2014 |
| Episode #121 | ShopTalk Show | June 2014 |
📘 denotes interviews related to my book, Inclusive Design Communities.
Select Articles
| Article | Publication | Date |
| The Communal Cycle of Sharing | CSS Tricks | Dec 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| Get up to speed with CSS Grid | net Magazine | Jan 2017 |
| 3 top tools for testing web performance | net Magazine | Dec 2016 |
| Creating web icons that break the language barrier | net Magazine | Nov 2016 |
| You've got this | The Pastry Box Project | Dec 2015 |
| Choosing Nothing | The Pastry Box Project | Oct 2015 |
| Design, Dinner, and A Show | The Pastry Box Project | Aug 2015 |
| Like fruit flies to a ripe mango | The Pastry Box Project | Jun 2015 |
| The World Wide Vulnerability | The Pastry Box Project | Apr 2015 |
| 5 Lessons from the responsive classroom | net Magazine | Jul 2014 |
| Thinking in Systems | net Magazine | Jun 2014 |