# Mehdi Mirzaie > Mehdi Mirzaie, Product Designer ## Pages - [Free Tools & Games](https://mehdiandme.com/tools-and-games/) - [Clients](https://mehdiandme.com/clients/) - [Contact](https://mehdiandme.com/contact/) - [Homepage](https://mehdiandme.com/) - [Blog](https://mehdiandme.com/blog/) ## Posts - [How Product Managers Use AI to 10x Productivity: Tools, Prompts & Workflows](https://mehdiandme.com/blog/how-product-managers-use-ai-10x-productivity/) - [Common Mistakes When Building Products with AI (And How to Avoid Them)](https://mehdiandme.com/blog/common-mistakes-building-ai-products/) - [Best AI Note-Takers 2026](https://mehdiandme.com/blog/best-ai-note-takers-2026-top-tools-features/) - [Does abstract art have meaning? why is it popular?](https://mehdiandme.com/blog/abstract-art-meaning/) - [Minimalism or Maximalism?](https://mehdiandme.com/blog/minimalism-vs-maximalism/) # # Detailed Content ## Pages A growing collection of free tools and games I make for fun, simple utilities and playable classics, free in your browser with no signup. Tool MiM Color Picker Free fullscreen color picker. Explore, pin favorites and copy HEX, RGB, HSL in one click. Open tool Tool MiM BG Remover Free background remover. Drop in JPG, PNG or WebP and get a clean transparent PNG in seconds. No signup. Open tool Game Tetris Game Free online Tetris with 10 levels, 3 lives, hold piece and power-ups. No download. Play now Game Breakout Game Free Breakout arcade with 20 levels, perks, lasers and combo up to x8. Play in browser. Play now Product Design & Management Companies I've worked with. Deep dives into end-to-end user experience, multi-role data dashboards, and automation-first product design systems. WINaTALENT Senior Product Design & Development Manager Nova Voya Product Lead Atisaz Bazar Senior Product Designer Codylex Design Consultant Farabi Brokerage Senior Product Designer BimeBazar Art Director / UX Researcher Kanata Clinics Design Consultant Design, Innovate, Elevate – Your Journey with Me Begins Here! Let's Create Together! Say Hello or Book a Meeting Linkedin. Dribbble. Behance. Unsplash. Instagram. Based in Tehran, Iran GMT+3:30 CET +2:30 In my role as a , I’m dedicated to creating meaningful and user-centered experiences by designing unique and intuitive interfaces and aligning teams around shared goals. I'm convinced that the key to memorable design lies in shared objectives, clear communication, and a deep understanding of user needs. What can I cover some of the things I can do but are not limited to User Interface Design User Experience Design User Research Product Strategy Landing Page Design Web Application Design Dashboard Design Mobile App Design E-commerce Design Companies I've worked with. Nova Voya WINaTALENT Bimebazar Jibimo KhorshidLab Atisaz Bazar Farabi Brokerage Divar Karnameh Zeg Solutions Kanata Clinics Codylex ACOFirm Financial DrFaridOrtho Long Life Unique 3D Illustrations on Unsplash With more than 4. 5 Million views, my 3D artworks on Unsplash are a must-see. Check them out and get inspired! What I listen to now? Ali Eskandarian - Black and Blue Linkedin. Dribbble. Behance. Unsplash. Instagram. Get my CV in PDF Download Product, Design & Beyond ## Posts - Categories: Blog - Tags: AI, Product, Tools Most product teams have AI somewhere in the building. Far fewer have rebuilt their workflow around it. In the 2026 State of Product Management survey, 36. 9% of PM teams said they're using AI for a handful of limited workflows, while just 18. 9% have it embedded across most of what they do and 6. 1% call it a core strategic capability (Product-Led Alliance & ProductPlan, 2026). That gap between "we use AI sometimes" and "AI changed how we work" is where the real productivity gains sit. This piece covers what's actually working: the tools PMs use for each stage of the job, prompts you can copy and adapt today, and the workflow changes that separate teams saving four hours a week from teams saving twenty. Key Takeaways 62% of product professionals report saving at least 4 hours a week using AI, and 59. 8% say the biggest win is time saved on repetitive tasks (Product-Led Alliance / Lenny's Newsletter, 2026). The winning tool stack is usually 2-3 tools, not twelve: one for writing (Claude, ChatGPT, or ChatPRD), one for research synthesis (Dovetail or a general LLM), and one for meetings or roadmapping. Bolting AI onto your existing process caps the upside. McKinsey found that redesigning the workflow itself, not just adding a tool to it, has the strongest link to real business impact. Only 4. 1% of teams currently let AI touch prioritization scoring directly, which tells you where PMs still draw the line between "help me think" and... - Categories: Blog - Tags: AI, Product AI products are everywhere right now, and most of them don't work. Teams rush to ship features with large language models, vector databases, and complex prompt chains, only to find users abandoning the product within weeks. The technology works in demos. It fails in production. This post covers the mistakes I've seen teams make over and over, and the fixes that actually hold up when real users show up. Key Takeaways 60% of AI projects without AI-ready data will be abandoned by 2026 (Gartner, 2025)The biggest failure points are unclear problem definition, poor data quality, and missing feedback loopsStarting with a non-AI baseline before adding AI avoids most of the expensive mistakes What happens when teams build AI products without clear problem definition? A 2025 Gartner press release found that 60% of AI projects lacking AI-ready data will be abandoned by 2026. The number one reason wasn't the model. It was that teams couldn't explain what problem the AI was supposed to solve. They started with the technology and worked backward to find a use case. That approach burns months of engineering time and almost always ends the same way. Clear problem definition sounds obvious, but it gets skipped constantly. Product managers hear "AI can do X" and immediately write a spec around X, without asking whether users actually need X done by AI. The result is a feature nobody asked for, built on infrastructure that costs real money to maintain. The fix is straightforward: write a one-sentence problem statement... - Categories: Blog - Tags: AI, Review Picking a meeting note-taker used to come down to price and integrations. In 2026, the real dividing line is language support. Some tools still work in a handful of languages. Others quietly cover more than a hundred. That gap matters a lot if your team isn't purely English-speaking. Here's a short, practical rundown of five popular options: Otter, Fireflies, Google Meet's built-in Gemini notes, Granola, and Atlassian's meeting notes feature inside Loom and Confluence. Quick summary Otter covers just six languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese Simplified) — no Farsi/Persian support. Fireflies transcribes 100+ languages and can even auto-detect several languages spoken in the same call. Google Meet's "Take notes for me" works in 8 languages and needs a paid Workspace or Google AI plan. Granola supports around 10-17 languages depending on platform (desktop vs. mobile). Atlassian's Loom transcribes 50+ languages, but the AI-written recap itself is currently English only. Otter: solid for English teams, thin everywhere else Otter built its name on fast, accurate English transcription, and it's still good at that. But its language list is short. As of its latest documentation, Otter transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified). That's it, one language at a time, no mixing languages in a single meeting. So if your team speaks Farsi (Persian), Arabic, Hindi, or most other languages, Otter simply won't transcribe the call correctly. Beyond transcription, Otter offers automated summaries, speaker labels, and integrations with Zoom, Google Meet, and Slack. It's a reasonable pick for... - Categories: Blog - Tags: Art & Design Abstract art is a term used to describe art that typically does not depict any specific subject or figure. The idea was developed in the early 20th century, and the term "abstract" has been in use since at least 1917, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Abstract paintings are usually stylized with flat areas of color, lines, and shapes instead of realistic images. Rather than focusing on exact visual representation, abstract art emphasizes aesthetic quality and mood, expressing emotions through universal forms rather than direct interpretation. For this reason, many people enjoy exploring abstract painting without having any specific outcome in mind. The Rise of Abstract Expressionism The style of Abstract Expressionism was developed by artists working in New York during the 1940s and 1950s. This movement redefined modern art and brought global attention to several influential figures, including: Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Franz Kline Robert Motherwell Mark Rothko How to Interpret Abstract Art Because abstract art is often simplified to the point of unrecognizability, it leaves room for widely varied interpretations. No fixed meaning: Some viewers believe abstract paintings carry no inherent meaning, serving purely as visual experiments. Emotional connection: Others argue that abstract art has a direct relationship with reality, reflecting the artist's personal emotional experience. In the documentary Abstract Art: An Extreme Close Up, David Hockney compares the formal properties of abstract painting with other forms of visual communication. He challenges the idea that abstract art is strictly nonfigurative, explaining that abstraction can actually evoke deeply... - Categories: Blog - Tags: Art & Design Minimalism and maximalism sit on opposite ends of the same question: how much stuff do you actually need to live well? Minimalists say less. Maximalists say more. Neither side is short on opinions about it. What is minimalism? Minimalism is the practice of keeping only what you need and cutting the rest. People who live this way often describe it as a kind of freedom, a way to stop being weighed down by possessions that don't add anything to their lives. The idea isn't just about having fewer things. It's about making room, physically and mentally, for what actually matters to you. What is maximalism? Maximalism is the opposite bet: more is better, and you should use whatever helps you live a fuller life. People who lean this way tend to value their belongings and see little point in giving up things that make life easier or more enjoyable. Where minimalism is about subtraction, maximalism is about addition. It treats possessions as tools for living well, not clutter to be managed. Why people choose minimalism A lot of people, especially younger adults, take up minimalism because it gives them more control over their own lives. Instead of accumulating things on autopilot, they decide deliberately what stays and what goes. That deliberateness carries into daily habits too. Someone who isn't sure how they want their morning to go might use minimalist thinking to plan the night before instead of scrambling in the moment. The appeal isn't the absence of stuff so...