About me
Trained in code. Working in design.
I'm a Kuwait-born, Toronto-based product designer with over five years of experience. I studied computer science while working in game art, until clients who trusted my art hired me for UI/UX design.
That grew into product design, where years of watching builds drift from my designs made me learn to build. I now use AI workflows to build what I design, down to the small details.
Career
Product Designer
Freelance
Aug 2023 – Present
Designed a map-based planning product for U.S. road agencies, from a one-screen brief to a live product.
Upwork
Remote
Product & UX/UI Designer
Freelance
Oct 2021 – Present
Designed 30+ web and mobile projects as Top Rated Plus, the top 3% of the marketplace.
Value & Growth Advisory
Kuwait City, KW
Hybrid
Senior UX/UI Designer
Full-time
Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
Rebuilt a two-sided fitness product at a Kuwait design agency: a member app and a seller dashboard.
Crowdbotics
Berkeley, US
Remote
UX/UI Designer
Contract
Oct 2021 – Dec 2024
Designed B2B web and mobile interfaces for low-code and AI tools, through a platform that staffs product teams.
Product Designer
Freelance
Nov 2023 – Mar 2024
Rebuilt a journaling app on its own design system: 47 components and about 400 screens in five months.
TechGrowth
Kuwait City, KW
Onsite
UX/UI Designer
Full-time
Aug 2022 – Jan 2023
Designed web and mobile products for fintech, healthcare, retail and hospitality clients at a Kuwait agency.
Education
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador, CA
M.Sc. Computer Science
GPA 3.7 / 4.0
Jan 2025
University of Central Punjab
Lahore, PK
B.Sc. Computer Science
GPA 3.66 / 4.0
Jul 2022
This site
I designed and engineered this site and everything in it, using Claude, and every choice was made in the site itself, at every screen size, in light and dark. I built the system before any of the pages: twelve greys, seven text sizes, three surface roles and five animation speeds.
I spent the next five months building on that system.The products in the case studies are rebuilt as working screens measured against the design files, I set the timing for every demo that drives them, and I checked what each page downloads and what it does on a keyboard.
Apr to Oct
6,686 commits
160 of 180 days
April
A design system, before any page.
Twelve greys, seven text sizes and five animation speeds, each with a written rule for when to use it.
May
InfraHub, on a real map.
The first case study, with live maps instead of screenshots, and the navigation every later page reused.
June
A shared library for the diagrams and demos.
The diagrams and demos from the first case study became shared parts, so the next two did not start over.
July
MyAutoBio, and a writing guide.
The second case study, plus the rules every page's writing follows, drawn from 1,495 screens of the products.
August
BeFT, and an iPhone drawn in CSS.
The third case study. The phone its screens sit in is not a photograph, it is built from one, measured part by part.
September
A whole product, rebuilt in the browser.
BeFT's app as working screens, thirteen demos on one shared engine, and the heaviest page down from 8.6MB to 1.5MB.
I am in Toronto, Canada and eligible to work here. I am looking for a product design role, with a growing focus on design engineering. I work best on teams where designers ship their own front end. I take contract work too, and I am open to remote.
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