Najma Dawood

Brooklyn-based multi‑hyphenate—designer, researcher, and teacher.

I design across product, emerging technology, accessibility, and learning experience—translating complex systems into human-centered work.

Brooklyn, NYAvailable Q2 2026Contact

Selected Work

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NYU VR Studio

2022 —

Designing NYU's undergraduate and graduate VR courses from scratch

Architectural wireframe of the Now app—a three-column personal operating system showing today's tasks, rituals with streak tracking, and an AI conversational assistant

A personal operating system

2025 —

An independent product, currently in design

Cover of 'Black Studies as the Study of the World—A PK-12 Black Studies Curriculum for New York City Public Schools,' yellow with photographs of Black students

Teachers College, Columbia

2024

Communications & digital architecture for a city-funded curriculum launch

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory × OPSLab × NYU—Mars surface with mission partner marks

UX for XR—NASA JPL

2018

Prototyping planetary exploration on the HoloLens

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Teaching

Curriculum is an ecosystem.

Since 2022 I've been designing and teaching NYU's undergraduate and graduate VR courses—alongside curriculum work at Teachers College, Platinum Edge Tutoring, and a K-5 literacy program. I treat curriculum as an ecosystem: information architecture, learner outcomes, accessibility, and iteration with feedback—never finished.

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