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I help founders and product teams decide what to build, design it, and launch it.

From new consumer products to onboarding and marketplace experiences, I connect product strategy with hands-on design and AI-assisted development.

Work with me on a focused project, through ongoing design support, or in a long-term role.

Fixed scope

Product Direction Sprint

Decide what to build next, with a prototype that makes the direction tangible.

What you leave with

A defined problem, a recommended direction, a prototype, and a plan for testing the assumptions behind it.

Monthly

Embedded Product Design

Hands-on design support for a team with work to move from discovery through implementation.

What I take on

Product definition, user flows, interface design, and prototypes, with close engineering collaboration through launch.

Long-term

Join Your Team

A product design role with responsibility for the experience and how it develops over time.

What I take on

Help shape product direction, lead design across connected journeys, and stay accountable for what happens after launch.

How I approach design

Understand what needs to change

I start with what people need to accomplish and what the business needs to achieve. I map where people get stuck, which teams and systems are involved, and what we still need to learn.

Test the direction

With product and engineering, I explore options and test the assumptions most likely to change our direction. I carry that thinking into the flows, language, and interactions.

Follow through after launch

I use research and product data to understand what changed for users and the business. That helps us decide what to improve, where to expand, and what to rethink.

From people I’ve worked with

“Nisa’s work is thorough and proactive, she’s highly collaborative across functions, and she puts in the extra hours to elevate the entire group.”
Joe CrosbyBrand & Content Marketing, REI
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Nisa is smart, focused and collaborative -- an extremely gifted UX and product designer, who I had the pleasure of working closely with building marketing and ecommerce websites for Fortune 150 brands. In addition to a deep understanding of user-experience principles, Nisa has both an intuitive and tactical sense of related disciplines, including creative design, content strategy, and technology, and their interrelationship when developing best-in-class marketing and ecomm experiences. This manifests in thorough and proactive individual work, highly collaborative (and helpful!) cross-functional brainstorming and strategy sessions, and putting in additional hours and work to elevate the entire group. She does all of this with a great attitude and easy demeanor, making her not just an effective team member, but a pleasure to work with throughout the project lifecycle. I gladly recommend Nisa and her multi-tool skill set for any UX or product design role and would jump at the chance to work with her again.
Worked with Nisa on the same team
“Nisa consistently demonstrated a unique blend of creativity and technical skill, transforming complex ideas into visually stunning and effective designs.”
Nora NguyenProduct, TestBox
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I had the pleasure of working with Nisa over multiple projects, and her design expertise is truly exceptional. Nisa consistently demonstrated a unique blend of creativity and technical skill, transforming complex ideas into visually stunning and effective designs. Her customer-obsessed approach ensures that every project not only meets but exceeds customer expectations. Nisa’s dedication, innovative mindset, and keen eye for detail make her an invaluable asset to any team.
Nora was Nisa’s client
“Nisa’s work directly impacted the successful global expansion of contextual educational experiences for Uber Drivers.”
Andrew DinhProduct Marketing, Uber
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I worked with Nisa to develop and scale Uber’s global driver loyalty program, Uber Pro. Nisa is an exceptionally creative user designer who thinks about the end-to-end customer experience to design product that people love to use. Nisa played a key role in developing contextual educational experiences to drive program comprehension to drivers in with low tech literacy and low language skills. Her work directly impacted the successful global expansion of the program. Nisa is a deeply empathetic person, good friend, and a great person to be around.
Worked with Nisa on the same team
“Nisa truly embodies the “partner” in “design partner” and constructively challenges you to think outside the box and defend your positions, ultimately making 1+1=3.”
Ryan CunninghamCo-Founder, SHACK15 Ventures
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Nisa is hands-down one of the most thoughtful designers I’ve ever worked with. A specialist in human-computer interaction, she continuously breaks the mold and is unafraid to challenge long-held assumptions about what is possible and how things should work. She truly embodies the “partner” in “design partner” and constructively challenges you to think outside the box and defend your positions, ultimately making 1+1=3. If you want a logo, go to Fiverr, but if you want a design leader, there’s no one better!
Worked with Nisa on the same team
“Nisa is not only one of the most talented data-driven designers I’ve worked with, but she can also provide critical feedback that embodies the user’s needs.”
Barney GarzaProduct Designer, Spin
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I am genuinely grateful to have worked with Nisa at Spin and have collaborated with her on Spin’s website redesign. Nisa is not only one of the most talented data-driven designers I’ve worked with, but she can also provide critical feedback that embodies the user’s needs. Most importantly, Nisa brings a positive attitude that makes product design collaboration fun. I can’t wait to see the global impact she will have during her career.
Worked with Nisa on the same team
“Nisa does a great job of breaking down complex problems and designing elegant solutions.”
Garrett SpitzerProduct Lead, Uber
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It was an absolute pleasure working with Nisa. Nisa does a great job of breaking down complex problems and designing elegant solutions. Hopefully our work paths will cross in the near future!
Worked with Nisa on the same team
“Nisa’s feedback and hard work helped our team deliver quality work on tight timelines.”
Tiffany McKinleySr. UX Researcher, Juul Inc.
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Nisa is a dream to work with and helped our team deliver a great user experience. She collaborates cross functionally and always provided great insights to improve our processes and designs. Her feedback and hard work helped our team deliver quality work on tight timelines. Nisa will be very missed at Spin!
Worked with Nisa on the same team
“If I had to describe Nisa I would say hungry...in a great way. Hungry for knowledge, for challenges, for skills.”
Sarah Stritter MurgelExperience Design Leader
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I had the pleasure of working with Nisa at Razorfish, where she was hired as an Associate Experience Designer to join our School of Fish program. Nisa impressed me immediately by taking complete ownership over her career objectives and growth. She wanted to make a change professionally, did her due diligence, established some amazing skills and started as a designer without a ton of experience in the field, but it did not matter. Her process for filling a blank canvas and learning as she went confidently made her ideas and contributions fresh, creative, and always on trend. If I had to describe her I would say hungry...in a great way. Hungry for knowledge, for challenges, for skills. It was a true pleasure working with Nisa and I have no doubt that she will be a very successful Experience Design leader.
Sarah was senior to Nisa but didn’t manage Nisa directly
“Nisa is passionate about user experience and web design, and full of great ideas.”
Kathrine HuangSr. Product Designer, Poshmark
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Nisa is passionate about user experience and web design, and full of great ideas. I had the great time to working with her for the internal projects, and she did the great job for problem solving and had great user experience for our internal tool. She is friendly and easy to work with, it was my pleasure to working with her.
Worked with Nisa on the same team

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I help founders and product teams decide what to build, design it, and launch it.

Product Direction Sprint

What you leave with

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Embedded Product Design

What I take on

Best for

Format

Join Your Team

What I take on

Best for

Format

How I approach design

Understand what needs to change

Test the direction

Follow through after launch

From people I’ve worked with

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