# Tammy T. > Designing Gen AI @ Figma Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tammyt I’m Tammy Taabassum. I'm a product designer with software engineering and illustration chops who thrives on all things ambiguous and gnarly. With a strong focus on craft, systems thinking, storytelling, and high exploration output, I enjoy diving into the details, solving problems thoughtfully, and bringing order to chaos. I have been known to fix bugs in production once or twice. I have a deep love for learning and that leads me to wearing many hats. My journey has taken me from co-founding Octoshop (a project that scored a multi-million dollar acquisition) to designing at Meta, Microsoft, and IBM. I’m all about creating simple designs, collaborating across teams to bring visions to life, and sprinkling in some coding magic to speed things up. Currently designing Generative AI experiences at Figma ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Figma Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Designer on the AI team. Founding designer on prompt to edit. My contribution boils down to 3 areas. Product vision Pitched and secured funding for the project. Built early prototypes to define the feature’s potential and collaborated with PMs to architect the underlying system. Created a flexible roadmap outlining how to build toward the future vision, and partnered closely with PMs and EMs to scope, sprint, and lead the team. Quality Defined the evaluation set and testing plan, working with researchers to improve model quality. Investigated AI-generated code to identify key areas for engineering improvement. Collaborated with research scientists to refine prompts, prototype in code, and translate design principles into model behavior—helping the model develop “taste.” Contributed front-end polish and experience refinements through submitted PRs. Design Established the foundational framework, visual language, and interaction paradigms to support designers’ workflows. Brought designs to critique, built coded prototypes, and jammed with other designers to explore alternative solutions and refine the product experience. ### Senior Product Designer @ Figma Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design for Figma Make's Supabase integration that enables users to add a backend to their apps. Led design and informed technical development of Figma Make’s style context feature by prompt engineering and rapidly working with engineers to build prototypes Led design and fixed bugs for Figma Make's point and edit tool, including coding prototypes and submitting PRs in Github for polish. Built and maintained the eval system across different AI features. Partnered with engineers to improve AI quality through experiments, prompt engineering and rapid code tweaks. Redesigned the underlying design system of the post-config relaunch of First Draft, while also supporting the UI redesign of First Draft's flow. Leveraged dev skills to save engineering bandwidth. Collaborated with product, research and engineering to plan and lead an org-wide, AI focused, hackathon. ### Product Designer @ Figma Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Led building a new feature with limited PM support for enterprise focused collaboration while leveraging engineering skills to collaborate with engineers and ship faster. Led the design and shipped the Notifications redesign, which consists of an audit that continues to be foundational documentation for XFN. Collaborated with PMs on team direction, roadmaps and delivered supporting vision deck. Designed Figma’s PWA support for ChromeOS which was presented during Chrome’s keynote speech during Google I/O. ### Freelance Product Designer @ Unknown Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 Led the design and development of interfaces, 0-1 design systems, landing pages, pitch decks and promotional material for various companies such as Brightdrop, Rally.video, Webapp.io, Datafold and Saltwater, with a high focus on craft, story telling, product strategy and close design/PM/development partnership. ### Interaction Designer @ Punchcut Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Internship as part of the co-op portion of my masters degree. • Designed interactions and workflows for a Fortune 100, large-screen entertainment company • Planned a user research project for a Fortune 100 streaming company • Designed, planned, and built a framework for how to design for inclusion, including a pre-planned workshop, reading materials, design checklists, and an accompanying presentation deck. ### Product Design Intern @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States Internship as part of the co-op portion of my masters degree. • Intern on Facebook web’s Product Foundations (Design Systems) team. • Aligned with PMs, Engineers, and designers on cross teams to design 2 core unification projects and side projects. • Built a coded prototype with ReactJS and SASS. • Fixed and shipped 5 UI bugs in code, and updated 25 design system bugs in Figma. ### Product Designer @ Finary (YC W21) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 • Researched & and designed NFT displaying experiences for a FinTech start-up • Led a team of 5 through stages of discovery, design, and testing • Leveraged interviews to build an extensive customer journey map and persona • Built user flows and prototypes using Finary's existing design system with Figma ### Co-founder & Head Of Design @ InStok Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Designed full branding and UX of a web extension to help users compare prices, get cash back from purchases, and set up alerts for out-of stock items. • Established and coded a Design System that saved engineer time by 30 hr/mo • Rebuilt the web extension with the new design system • Designed new systems, flows and features from scratch ### Xbox - UX Design Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Spearheaded exploratory northstar work for improving diversity & inclusion of Xbox’s suite of products for low-income women. Audited existing gaps in Xbox’s diversity and defined 3 solution areas for future exploration ### Product Designer @ Not Dev Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 NotDev is a design agency that focuses on product, brand and illustration. I collaborated with other designers to create user flows and design interfaces for clients such as Google, DocuSign, Figleaf and Toyota. ### Product Design Intern @ Wish Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 • Coordinated 10 projects for Marketplace, Consumer and Design Systems teams • Collaborated with stakeholders such as PMs, engineers, and lawyers. • Redefined the color tokens in the design system, received buy-in from stakeholders and converted colors to code for developers. • Delivered designs for product compliance workflows through an iterative process as the sole designer. ### Product Designer @ Saltwater Capital Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Working on Saltwater’s project management tool: Potluck. Conducted user research, collaborated with designers and engineers to iterate over user flows and interfaces that I user-tested. Presented findings to key stakeholders and fixed minor UI issues using Vue.js. ### HCI Research Assistant @ RiceLab Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Conducting a pilot study to understand the dissemination of health knowledge misinformation on WhatsApp between intergenerational immigrant families. • Synthesized existing literature to understand the problem space • Created a protocol for semi-structured interviews • Published to CHI 2021 ### User Experience Designer & Front End Engineer @ ParseHub Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area Worked on design strategy, of two products. Created personas, wireframes, prototypes, journey maps and visual designs. Reduced customer support dependency for new subscriptions by 50% for one product and improved user adoption of the other. Developed and coded live versions of the products using ReactJS and AngularJS. ### VP Communications @ UofTHacks Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area Led the Public Relations, Web Development and Graphic design teams. Designed branding of the event including logo, sponsorship package, T-shirt and all other promotional merchandise. Designed and developed the front end design of the hacker portal for users to update information. ### Research Intern @ University of Toronto Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area • Worked on a web application that makes it easier for researchers to organize papers to cite for a UX/UI lab using React and NodeJS ### UX Designer & Frontend Developer @ Walden International School Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Brampton Conducted user research and used card sorting to improve information architecture to increase time on page by 63% and decrease bounce rate by 30%. Redesigned and developed the new design using ReactJS and HTML/CSS. ### Software Engineering Intern @ IBM Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Markham, Canada Designed and developed an application to make it easier for users to use Db2 through a GUI by using electron, ReactJS, NodeJS and docker. App received 1500+ downloads as of Aug 2017, 50% of downloads were by new users of Db2. Created story board and scripts for promotional 2D animations for Db2 v11 using Illustrator and After Effects. ### Designer @ University of Toronto Students' Union Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area • Created multimedia and printed promotional material for the University of Toronto Student's Union ### Graphic Designer @ Ranomics Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada Area • Created promotional material to be handed out as well as large print material for displays, bags and banners. • Created a trifold brochure as well as an online PDF to showcase Ranomics’ Technology and information. • Created all images and designs from scratch. ### Design Intern @ SerindLabs Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | 73 Bathurst street Created web pages uses HTML/CSS, bootstrap, Javascript and Jquery ### Pedagogical Research Assistant @ University of Toronto Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Works in multiple areas such as video editing and photo manipulation ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Neuroscience, Computer science and Statistics University of Toronto ### Master's degree in Information (UX focus) University of Toronto ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/taamannae - Portfolio: https://taamannae.dev --- Source: https://flows.cv/tammyt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tammyt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30