YARA SAMAD

I’m Yara Samad, a passionate storyteller, creative and strategist. My work in industrial and product design spans digital concept visualization, rendering components for execution and manufacturing, and hands-on prototyping. Underpinning all of it is a deep curiosity about the intersection of human memory, emotion, and behavior, but what excites me most is shaping the products and systems behind my inventions - identifying opportunities, defining solutions, and guiding concepts from early vision through implementation and beyond. Besides occasionally dipping my toe in an architecture or environmental design project, I’m all about product strategy, systems thinking, and the process of translating ideas into tangible experiences.

Whether the outcome takes the form of a physical product, digital experience, service, or environment, I enjoy integrating the right solution into the right medium and bringing it to life.

My capstone explores how emerging technologies, AI, and automation are reshaping the ways people interact with both digital and physical environments, envisioning how emerging technologies can be thoughtfully incorporated into contemporary products being revolutionized by the new age of automation.

Bachelor’s of Design in Product and Industrial Design (Honors) Carnegie Mellon University