About
I’m Malaysian-American and a third culture kid. I’m currently a creative director and product designer at True Ventures, and lead design for an early-stage edtech stealth start-up. I live in San Francisco with my wife, Jen Schuetz, and our dog, a senior rescue Chihuahua named Barbara from Muttville.
Previously I founded the acclaimed design studio Weightshift, helped build the product design team at VSCO, and subsequently returned to independent consulting for early-stage and Series A companies such as Abstract (acquired by Adobe), Atoms (the shoe company), Honeycomb (co-parenting app), and TRASH (acquired by VSCO).
Notes at 45 details how I'm currently thinking about life at the moment.
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New Adventures
Diverse Design: How We Build for People
January 2019, Nottingham, United Kingdom -
CreativeWorks
Talk: Hard Work & Hard Living
Workshop: The Full-Stack Designer
October 2018, Memphis, Tennessee, USA -
Brooklyn Beta 5
Hard Work & Hard Living
October 2014, Brooklyn, New York, USA -
Designer Fund
The Space Between the Notes
October 2013, San Francisco, California, USA -
Asana & Designer Fund
Skeuomorphism vs. Simplicity: A Town Hall
October 2012, San Francisco, California, USA -
SXSW Interactive
Design from the Gut: Dangerous or Differentiator
March 2012, Austin, Texas, USA -
SXSW Interactive
Built: Online Communities, Offline Relationships
March 2011, Austin, Texas, USA -
AIGA Chicago
Tools of the Trade: Creative Content for the Web
April 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA -
SXSW Interactive
Design is in the Details
March 2008, Austin, Texas, USA -
Making Media Connections
Emerging Online News Outlets
July 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA - UnderConsideration’s Speak Up
SeriouSeries 3
April 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Speaking
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D806,740
United States Patent
Display screen with a transitional graphical user interface -
Ep. 76: Craft is a Journey
Presentable
A podcast by Jeff Veen -
Ep. 12: Our Tools Give Us Superpowers
Presentable
A podcast by Jeff Veen
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How They Got There
Interviews with digital designers about their careers
A book by Khoi Vinh
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Offscreen No. 5
Naz Hamid interview
A magazine by Kai Brach
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The Great Discontent
Jen Schuetz & Naz Hamid
An interview series by The Great Discontent
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Design Is In The Details
A List Apart
A web content magazine headed by Jeffrey Zeldman
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Naz Hamid vs. Chris Glass
Layer Tennis
A friendly design competition by Coudal Partners
Published
Colophon
The site is handcoded by me in Nova, and built with Eleventy. Typography is Söhne by Klim Type Foundry. Photographs are managed and edited in Adobe Lightroom for export. They are then optimized with ImageOptim, a tool I love dearly. The site is generated and served up via Netlify via a GitHub repo sync. This version was launched in November 2023.
I acknowledge that I live on the unceded lands of the Muwekma, Ohlone, and Ramaytush indigenous peoples.