About
Designer first. Now I build what I design.
Graphic design came first. Then I taught myself to code and tried to switch to web development. It didn't stick, but it led me to UX: the one job where both halves were useful.
Six years later, the timing is finally right. AI has made starting to code far easier, so I'm going back for the other half, on purpose this time, with a designer's eye for what's worth building and how it should feel.
What I believe
Three things I'd bring to any team.
Get the problem right first.
Most of UX is understanding the problem correctly. Beautifully styling the wrong solution is the expensive mistake.
Pretty is allowed. Confusing isn't.
Visual polish matters, right up until it gets in the way of something being simple to use.
The handoff shouldn't be a cliff.
Designs should arrive as tokens, components and specs a developer can use. Ideally, as working code. With AI, design and code are drifting closer together, and the line between them keeps blurring.
The path
Eight chapters, most recent first.
2026 —
Designer who builds
Open to work, Reutlingen
React, Next.js and TypeScript on top of six years of UX design. This site is the first thing I've shipped with them.
2024 — 26
UX Designer
CData Software, Remote, Germany
Set up a structured design review, started the design system with the frontend team, and worked on modernising a legacy product.
2022 — 24
UI/UX Designer
WAFIOS, Reutlingen
Moved to Reutlingen. Kept the design system running, wrote the user stories, led backlog refinement and covered product roles when the team needed it.
2019 — 22
Senior UI/UX Designer
QBXNet, Lahore
Designed web and mobile features and established the design system I'd go on to maintain for five years.
2019
Product Designer
Zameen.com, Lahore
User research, stakeholder interviews and design guidelines for Propforce, a property sales portal.
2016 — 17
Visiting Lecturer
COMSATS University, Islamabad
Taught design at the university I'd graduated from a year earlier.
2015 — 16
eLearning Designer
360eLearning, Islamabad
Interactive, self-paced courses for UNDP, UNSSC and Medbridge, where design is judged by whether people finish.
2011 — 15
Bachelor's in Design
COMSATS University, Islamabad
Graphic design, and a first, stubborn attempt at code.
Toolkit
What I work with.
Design
- User research
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Wireframing & prototyping
- Visual design
- Design systems
- Usability testing
Build
- HTML & CSS
- JavaScript & TypeScript
- React & Next.js
- Angular
- Design tokens
Process
- Agile & Scrum
- User stories & specs
- Backlog refinement
- Documentation
- AI-assisted research & prototyping
Tools
- Figma
- Protopie
- Framer
- Adobe XD
- After Effects
- Jira
- Confluence
Languages
English (Professional), German (A1, learning), Urdu (Native)