Umair Yahya

Founded and licensed a UAE-registered digital wellness platform connecting urban professionals with certified fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle coaches. Leading a small founding team, currently designing and building the product ahead of launch.

Mentored designers globally, delivering 510+ minutes across 18 sessions with mentees in 3 countries. Helped mentees strengthen portfolios, design skills, and job search strategy for the UAE market.

Own design end to end as sole designer on Zaam, a subscription service for accessing the latest tech on low monthly payments. Lead a cross-functional team of 5 to 6 to deliver customized Zaam journeys for partners including Emirates NBD, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, RAK Bank, Noon, Samsung, and Jarir.

Designed a complete white-labelled travel platform as sole designer, covering flights, hotels, car rentals, and experiences. Built two full design systems from scratch, one for mobile and one for desktop, and delivered 140+ screens across the desktop product.

Engaged directly by the ClubHub founding team to design their vacation club management platform from the ground up. Led 2 junior designers while owning the design system and the wallet, home, search, and property details experiences.

Led design as Team Lead across a complete redesign of Integry's Flow Builder, embed, and form builder, running the process end to end with a product manager and supporting a junior designer. Built the design system and delivered 40+ screens per module across a platform serving 50,000+ users and 1 billion+ monthly API calls.

Joined as Sendoso's first designer, working solo across versions 1.0 and 2.0 before the team grew to 12+ designers. Designed the company's full design system and 300+ screens across sends, navigation, campaigns, marketplace, touches, and contacts.

Led design as sole designer on KnowMe, a privacy-first contacts app for iOS and Android. Delivered 250+ screens from research through to development handoff.

Progressed from Junior to Lead UI/UX Designer over four years, managing a team of 2. Designed and ran print campaigns for DBS Bank across a 3-year engagement, and designed Circles Asia and Viaesys across web and mobile.

Delivered UI/UX, print design, and illustrations across a range of digital and print projects.

Designed and delivered websites and mobile apps for US-based clients in a fully remote capacity.

Completed the UX Strategy Master Class with Jaime Levy in 2019.

Completed intermediate studies at Punjab College from 2011 to 2013.

Completed matriculation at LGGS.

Completed the Identity Design: For a Personal Cause course with -ing Creatives in 2019.