How we work

The practice helps enterprise, healthcare, SaaS, and AI teams make complex products clearer to adopt.

  1. Start from the job the product has to do, and the place people get stuck.
  2. Make the next decision obvious before adding more interface.
  3. Leave the team with files they can build from, and stop when that scope is done.
  4. Work directly with the person who will do the work.
6+
Years of product design and strategy work
4
Product areas: enterprise, healthcare, SaaS, and AI
MHCID
Beginning at UC Irvine in Fall 2026
Newport Beach
Studio at 120 Newport Center Drive

Safa Badamchi is Founder & Principal of SapphireX. The practice helps enterprise, healthcare, SaaS, and AI teams make complex products clearer to adopt.

SapphireX

Why founder-led matters

You work with the person who makes the design decisions. There is no handoff to a junior team. Capacity stays limited to a few engagements so the work is not split across a bench.

Safa Badamchi, Founder and Principal of SapphireX
Safa BadamchiFounder & Principal

Role

Founder & Principal, SapphireX. Six or more years of product design and strategy work. The focus is enterprise, healthcare, SaaS, and AI products. Role titles and years at past employers are not published until they are confirmed.

Education

Safa is beginning a Master of HCI & Design (MHCID) at the University of California, Irvine, in Fall 2026. The degree is not completed.

Professional background

Selected professional experience of Safa Badamchi includes Amazon, Juniper Networks, and MDxHealth. Those organizations are prior professional context. They are not automatically SapphireX clients. Details are on the work page.

Safa is an experienced product strategist and designer working across enterprise, healthcare, SaaS, and AI products.

Safa’s broader design portfolio and selected professional work are available at safa.design. View Safa’s design portfolio (opens in a new tab)

Areas of expertise

  • Enterprise workflow and dashboard UX
  • Healthcare product clarity and operational usability
  • SaaS onboarding, activation, and adoption
  • AI product experience: trust, control, and human oversight
  • Design systems and governance

No medical, legal, or regulatory credentials are listed because they are not verified for publication on this site.

Field Notes

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Our studio

Newport Beach Studio

120 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660

(949) 524-2324 · hello@sapphirex.co

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