Jawad Farooq Naik

Jawad Farooq Naik is a multidisciplinary designer, creative technologist, solutions architect, and aspiring educator whose work lives at the intersection of design, technology, and human connection. Driven by curiosity and a deep love for interaction and play, he builds tools, systems, and experiences that bring presence, warmth, and intent to the way people communicate, work, and care for one another.

His path began among the machines of his family's printing business, where he learned early that design shapes how we see, touch, and experience the world. That early spark grew into formal practice through his BFA in Visual Communication Design from the National College of Arts in Lahore, followed by his MFA in Dynamic Media from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), with extended graduate work alongside MIT's Responsive Environments group.

His MFA thesis, Tangible Tomorrow, grew from a deeply personal question: how do we bring presence back to long-distance relationships? The work explored intelligent companions and tangible interfaces designed to reduce emotional distance — not to replace human connection, but to hold it gently. That thesis continues to anchor his practice today, where code meets emotion and media becomes touch.

Jawad now designs intelligent systems and digital infrastructure across creative industries, healthcare, and small business — spanning empathetic AI integration, custom CRM and operational platforms, brand and visual identity, and human-centered automation. He believes the future belongs to creators who make technology more caring, intuitive, and alive, and that technology becomes meaningful only when it remembers the human at the center.

He serves as Marketing Director at Epic Home Healthcare, based in Plano, Texas, where he leads brand strategy, communications, and the design of empathetic AI and automation systems that bring warmth and clarity to home care operations. His work blends storytelling with intelligent technology — shaping how Epic's mission of compassionate, patient-centered care is communicated and experienced by the families and communities it serves.