Design you can touch, wear, walk through.

• 01 CloveA cluttered seller dashboard, rebuilt around the one decision that matters and verified with eye-tracking. B2B E-commerce · SaaS Eye-tracking validated →
• 02 NovaidTurning a panicked bystander into a guided first responder, completely hands-free. AI × AR · Health-tech Hands-free first aid →
• 03 LemonadaTeaching kids real business skills through a sales tool they actually want to open. Mobile App · Kids Gamified entrepreneurship →
• 04 3D Modeling UIPro-grade CAD reimagined for the browser, researched and shipped in one week. SaaS · CAD One-week challenge →
• 05 Glimpses from PalestineReturning a demolished village to the people who remember it, in VR. Published at ACM. VR · Master Thesis Research → Prototype →
• 06 BabylonA watch that teaches you a new language every time you check the time. Wearable Language learning →
• 07 Castle DefenderA historic site nobody visited, turned into a game played on its own walls. Interactive Installation Kinect · Projection →
• 08 AthenaOne conversation, two products: a chatbot residents barely type into, and the dashboard it feeds. Conversational UI Chatbot + Dashboard →
• 09 MeTooCutting the flat-share search down to only the conversations worth having. Mobile App Flatmate matching →
• 10 Shared CanvasA shared surface where artists and biologists finally draw on the same page. Collaborative Platform Artists × Biologists →
• 11 FILOA private message left on the most public object in the home. Smart Furniture Tangible messaging →
• 12 Sensory BoxTwo devices, one quiet object, shipped to full production. Industrial Design Shipped to production →
• 13 Religious RobotA robot that helps refugees keep their rituals, designed across two continents. Robotics · Research Siegen × Waseda →

Implement ⟲ iterates back to Ideate. The loop closes as many times as the users demand.

I have had the chance to work with Samer through multiple projects and community initiatives, where he has always been a model for innovation and collaboration. Samer is a leader by nature, with great understanding of technologies and how we interact with them in our daily lives.

Dr. Hanna KreitemCollaborator, technology & community projects

Working with him has always been successful, fun and instructive. He is very competent, motivated, innovative and organized, with huge knowledge about technology, history and the current problems in the world. He is able to figure out new and feasible solutions to urgent challenges.

Lisa HartbergerProject partner, HCI master studies

Samer has been an active member of the Global Innovation Gathering since the early days of the community’s existence. He has helped shape and grow the GIG network, designing workshops and learning experiences for GIG events such as Maker Faires, re:publica, and GIG Impact Gatherings.

Geraldine de BastionFounder, Global Innovation Gathering

I’ve collaborated with Samer on several projects. He was an enthusiastic team member, very well coordinated to work on specific strategies and systems. He is a problem solver and an innovative thinker.

Mohammed YaseenLead designer, project collaborator

“Design is the last line of defense between technology and the user.” This quote hit differently today during a session I attended titled “UX and AI: Designing for the Intelligence Age” with the insightful Samer Shawar.

Jihan A.UI/UX designer, UX & AI workshop

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise in design thinking. I am truly grateful for the transformative impact it has had on my problem-solving approach, and I am excited to apply these principles in my future endeavors.

Siham ShnaweB.Sc. Data Science, Design Thinking workshop

Selected clients & partners: CloveGoethe-InstitutInstitut Français Global Innovation GatheringJHF

Certified: “How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality.” Daily companions: Figma · Unity · Fusion 360 · Arduino · Processing · MAXQDA · Adobe CC, but the toolkit always follows the problem, never the other way around.

• Universität Siegen
  Germany

  M.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction

  Graduate training in user-centered research methods, qualitative analysis, and the design of interactive systems. Thesis: a VR application that reconstructs demolished Palestinian villages from archival photographs and maps. Researched, designed, built, and usability-tested end to end, then published at ACM with Aal & Wulf.

  Read the thesis case study →
• Siegen × Waseda
  Germany / Tokyo

  Joint research, robots for religious & cultural identity

  A cross-university research project exploring how robots can help immigrants and refugees integrate into new societies while preserving religious and cultural identity. I designed the 3D model and interaction of the third robot in the collection.

  Read the research case study →
• Workshops
  & Facilitation

  Design thinking, brainstorming, interactivity, critical thinking

  I conduct workshops that move teams from divergent to convergent thinking, the same facilitation practice that opens most of my projects, from Babylon’s psychological-needs session to Novaid’s ideation sprints.

• Community
  Ramallah → Berlin

  Vecbox & the Global Innovation Gathering

  Founder of Vecbox, the first hackerspace in Palestine, built to empower communities through technology. Active member of the Global Innovation Gathering, a network of grassroots innovators, social entrepreneurs, and makerspace founders.