It's me, Sam!

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

EventTopicDate
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 InteractivePanelist, “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

TitlePublicationDate
Actually following through
on DEI
📘
Work Appropriate with Helen Ann PetersonSept 2023
Small Acts Can
Invite More Voices
📘
Indeed’s Design teamNov 2022
Inclusive Design
Communities 📘
ShopTalk ShowOct 2022
Design Education 📘Code & PixelsOct 2022
Creating inclusive places 📘Design to BeOctober 2022
Leading inclusively 📘Things Worth LearningSept 2021
Episode #355Shop Talk ShowOct 2018
Bootcamps Aim To Solve
Diversity Problem
NPR (KUT)Mar 2017
What Comes Next
Is The Future
Documentary2014
Episode #121ShopTalk ShowJune 2014

📘 denotes interviews related to my book, Inclusive Design Communities.

Select Articles

ArticlePublicationDate
The Communal Cycle
of Sharing
CSS TricksDec 2019
Get up to speed
with CSS Grid
net MagazineJan 2017
3 top tools for
testing web performance
net MagazineDec 2016
Creating web icons that
break the language barrier
net MagazineNov 2016
You've got thisThe Pastry Box ProjectDec 2015
Choosing NothingThe Pastry Box ProjectOct 2015
Design, Dinner, and A ShowThe Pastry Box ProjectAug 2015
Like fruit flies to a ripe mangoThe Pastry Box ProjectJun 2015
The World Wide VulnerabilityThe Pastry Box ProjectApr 2015
5 Lessons from the
responsive classroom
net MagazineJul 2014
Thinking in Systemsnet MagazineJun 2014