A good mix of user interface design, and development skills.
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Sufiyan Yusuf
@sufiyanyusuf
User interface designer, engineer, indie developer.
United Arab EmiratesWhat I'm looking for
Worked on a series of projects at the world's largest airline
Founding designer at a Softbank funded EU based logistics scaleup - conceived, designed and scaled the company design system across different tools, stacks, and teams over many years
Indie iOS/MacOS developer - currently building a Mac app to write down thoughts
Dropped out of one of the top design schools in the US
Passionate about solving tough interaction design problems, and actual implementation details of the solution
Designed quite a few brand identities for some startups
Ran a restaurant a few years back
Experience
PAUser Interface Designer
Paack
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 2 months)
Involved from day one in building and scaling the design system (Sketch, Figma)
Contributing tiny QA fixes to the Paack-UI library (Elm)
Built full fledged, high fidelity prototypes for the courier app (SwiftUI, Firebase)
Involved in the initial stages of the design of tools used by couriers and fleet management teams
Designed tools used by warehouse operatives in their day to day operations
IDPrinciple Designer
ICCA Dubai
Aug 2018 - Apr 2022 (3 years 8 months)
A comprehensive brand refresh, involving multiple physical & digital assets
Redesigning the existing website with a focus on immersive storytelling
Rebuilding the website (in Webflow) - massive increase in performance, SEO, UX & visual design
DEDesigner & engineer
DealMeow
May 2021 - Jan 2022 (8 months)
- Rewrote the backend in Rust, and the frontend in Elm.
- Used CoreML to train a couple of ML models to perform object detection for flyers
- Developed an iPad/MacOS(Catalyst) tool for the human in the loop service, for the ML pipeline involving object detection, annotations & OCR to extract pricing and product information from supermarket flyers.
- Setup a Kubernetes cluster with AWS EKS
EADesigner
Emirates Airlines
Mar 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 5 months)
Ideation and design of loyalty solutions for frequent flyer members of the airline
User research for a project, to improve communication between HR & 15K+ ground staff members
Research & design for a VR based project for a local tourism arm of the airline
Design & development of an iOS app to share travel memories
Availability
Open to opportunities
Location
United Arab EmiratesAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
80k-100k USD
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