Naaz Kazemi
Product Designer
A Bit About Me
I'm a Product Designer with a background in Architecture and a passion for creating seamless, user-centered experiences. I began my professional journey at a data-rich commercial real estate company, where I worked with the Design and Product team to shape products that contributed to a billion-dollar revenue. I was deeply involved in building a design system from scratch, designing new products, and modernizing legacy platforms—an experience that sharpened my problem-solving skills and love for scalable, impactful design.
I’m always on the lookout for diverse, innovative, and fun teams that value collaboration and creativity. Let’s connect—I’d love to hear about your next big idea!
Work Experience
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
Summer 2022
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Product Design, CoStar Group
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Developed a cross-functional sharing feature enabling 180,000+ daily users to collaborate with non-subscribers, allowing them to share over 7 million properties with clients and seamlessly interact to expedite commercial leases and sales.
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Designed an intuitive experience that empowers users to import leases, track critical dates, monitor building trends, and use data insights to inform their negotiation strategy, leading the process from ideation to wire-framing and problem-solving. Developed global components for the CoStar design system that enhanced team efficiency, ensured consistency, improved accessibility, and enabled us to better serve international customers.
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Revamped the user interface of CoStar's most-visited pages, serving over 160,000 daily global users, which enhanced user engagement and provided valuable insights to industry professionals.
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Established design and functionality guidelines for user stories, providing clear direction to support designers, product managers, business analysts, and engineers.
UI/UX Associate Designer, CoStar Group
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Created a product that connects users to 1 million international commercial for-lease and for-sale listings, utilizing CoStar design principles and design library. This design accommodates multiple languages, metrics, and currencies across numerous countries, featuring responsive mocks for various screen sizes.
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Optimized the website's color palette and accessibility through in-depth research, enhancing the visual experience for all users, including those with color vision deficiencies, and aligning with accessibility guidelines.
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Created high-fidelity mockups on Figma that e􀆦ectively represented the user story, goals, and final product, clearly communicating design intentions to stakeholders.
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Developed and implemented a cross-functional naming convention system for mockups delivered to the tech team, which increases efficiency.
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Enhanced the UI experience of the search and filter features for CoStar News, which provides stories and analysis driven by insights from CoStar's market data.
UI/UX Design Intern, CoStar Group
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Redesigned website components using Figma.
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Established the first onboarding for UX design new hires and interns.
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Developed a file uploading feature for Homes.com employees through a process that included user research, the creation of detailed user personas, and the design of user flows.
UX Researcher, HIO (Project Mongoose)
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Consulted for a smart home startup and delivered recommendations for the onboarding process.
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Created multiple sign-up flows for the application, accommodating users with varying levels of technology comfort through email, text messages, pamphlets, and customer service support.
Social Media & Marketing Assistant, VCU da Vinci Center/ Shift Retail Lab
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Managed online media deliverables, including Instagram and LinkedIn posts, flyers, banners, and printable materials, for multiple work streams within the Center of Innovation at VCU.
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Developed creative content to promote the da Vinci Center’s programs and community.
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Analyzed user growth trends and implemented strategies that increased followers by +10.3%.
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Coordinated and spearheaded a partnership between VCUQatar and Shift Retail Lab to foster collaboration. As the ambassador, I presented the initiative to the VCUQ team, including the dean, during an international trip to Doha.
Customer Discovery/ UX Consultation, KBHealthTech LLC
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Co-led a team that consulted for a health tech startup utilizing Scrum methodology.
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Researched the current market landscape to assess competitors' products and identify pain points through interviews with o􀆦site and onsite end-users and subsequently presented a comprehensive recommendation package to the stakeholders.