Mobina Tooranisama
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Mobina Tooranisama

Junior product designer Open to roles in the GTA: remote, hybrid or on-site

I like working out why a thing is annoying, then making it less annoying.

I'm a product designer in Newmarket, Ontario, with a Computer Science degree from Wilfrid Laurier. I work out who a thing is for and where it gets in their way, design the screens, and then build them, so I know what the design costs to make.

Cover story

The one to read first: the problem, the decisions and what I'd change.

Case study 01 / Product design / 2026

CityRoots

A directory is only useful if you can trust its order.

A directory of free and low-cost things to do across the GTA and Waterloo Region. Every listing shows its cost, free comes first, and nobody pays for placement.

Solo, product design and development

places to explore across 10 cities
672
dead links and dead domains found when I audited 400 listings, so those came out
72
category colours, each passing AA contrast in light and dark
11

Case studies

Three more, written up the same way.

More I built

Side projects, team work and coursework. Point at a sheet, or tab to it, to pull it out.

  1. Retrosnack ClothingE-commerce2026Every item exists once, so two people can never buy the same piece.
  2. Konfer landing pageWebsite2025Front-end help on the site of a Canadian events consultancy.
  3. Laurier Computing SocietyWeb app2021 to 2024About two and a half years of volunteer Django, bugs and deploys.
  4. System Programming and Operating Systems (CP367, CP386)Coursework2024C on Unix: processes, threads and deadlocks.
  5. The Mech KeyboardsClass project2023A class storefront I still think about.
  6. Ontario fuel price studyData analysis2024Ontario fuel prices from 1990 to 2023, cleaned and charted.
  7. VBA grade reporterClass project2022One click from Access records to a formatted Word report.
  8. Sam's Little WorldWebsite2026A pixel-art room, made as a memorial for a family's cat.
  9. Mother's Day tributeWebsite2026English and Persian, switching live.

Experience

5 roles since 2021, some at the same time.

I'm looking for a junior product designer role.