Design Technologist · Founder, DFSG
Who designed the world?
Saad is a designer rethinking the human experience around how we live, learn, and work. How the products, services, and systems around us are designed is influencing us and the human condition — he believes it is the responsibility of a designer to understand our world, leverage design to create shared understanding and to leave the world better than we have found it.
At the d.school, Saad teaches undergraduate courses on human values in design and human-computer interaction. With a background at the intersection of computer science, design, and architecture, he encourages learners to take creative leaps with the interplay of distinct ideologies across disciplines. He believes the d.school is a place for rebels and misfits and mentions, "the d.school feels like home to me".
Inspired by the d.school’s mission and a graduate of its MS Design Program, he founded DFSG, a global design school x design studio, built to help people reach their full potential whilst solving the most pressing challenges our world is facing. His focus is on improving social mobility and education access while reducing the opportunity costs adults face when learning.
Saad has designed products and services across commercial, government, and public sectors, working with organizations such as Disney, Perkins&Will, MIT, the FDA, the CDC, and higher education boards. His expertise spans across building federal and state-level healthcare, patent law, edtech, and consumer good systems and technologies.