An AI first, growth obsessed hands-on product design leader and creative all rounder with a relentless passion for crafting exceptional user experiences.

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2004

Landed my first gig freelancing for Nvidia, aged 14.

2008

Got a job offer. Dropped out of college.

2012

Moved to Madrid, Spain. Joined hotel booking app. Acquired by Groupon.

2014

Moved back to London. Spent years contracting.

2017

Switched to luxury commerce. Started at FarFetch.

2018

Moved to Dubai. Joined Careem. Lead design for Food.

2020

Lead experience design for the region’s first Superapp.

2022

Head of Product Design at CAFU.

2026

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Careem

Platform transformation

Leading UX for the region’s first super app.

From rides to food delivery, payments, groceries, and more, I helped shape the experience behind one of the Middle East’s most ambitious product transformations.

StatusLive
Period2018 - 2022
RoleDesign Lead
Server Driven UI

Building the foundations for true personalization.

Back in 2020, server-driven UI was still emerging. I defined the personalization strategy and helped build the platform foundations that enabled dynamic experiences tailored to user context, behavior, and intent.

Growth engine

Turning signals into business outcomes.

By surfacing the right service to the right user at the right moment, personalization helped drive engagement, discovery, and cross-service adoption across the ecosystem.

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Cross service engagement

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Time to first action

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Home card interaction rate

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Higher CTR on widgets

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Food conversion from home

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Weekly multi service users

PayPalm

FINTECH

Designing a new category of payments.

As Head of Product Design, I led the UX strategy and experience design for PayPalm: a biometric payments platform that turns your palm into your wallet. My scope spanned the consumer app, identity systems, merchant experiences, and PalmOS - a bespoke operating system for POS devices.

StatusIn development
Period2025 - 2026
RoleHead of Product Design
ONBOARDING

Fast onboarding for a high-trust product.

I turned a complex fintech setup into a guided flow that feels simple: identity checks, selfie capture, account creation, and verification: all designed to reduce drop-off while satisfying the security and compliance demands of biometric payments.

ACCOUNT SETUP

Security without the friction.

Every step served a purpose. Recovery credentials, account security, and profile completion were carefully sequenced to keep momentum high while giving users confidence their account was protected from day one.

Core experience

Where identity becomes utility.

Financial products live or die on trust. Every interaction was crafted to provide clarity, transparency, and confidence — whether checking a balance, reviewing transactions, or making a payment.

AI WORKFLOW

Less time pushing pixels. More time solving problems.

Design systems, user flows, and front-end experiences are generated through a structured AI workflow, dramatically increasing output without compromising quality.

WINNRZ

SHOP & WIN

Building the next generation of prize-led commerce.

As part of Idealz Holding, creators of Dream Dubai and Winnrz, I helped evolve a platform where shopping meets entertainment. The challenge was balancing trust, excitement, and conversion to create an experience users genuinely enjoy returning to.

StatusLive
Period2026
RoleHead of UX + Digital Experiences
Personalization Strategy

The feed adapts. The strategy stays consistent.

Behind every screen sits a segmentation framework designed around conversion, engagement, and reactivation. Content modules dynamically adapt to each user’s behaviour and lifecycle stage.

Dynamic component engine

The experience changes. The goals don’t.

Behind the scenes, every homepage is assembled differently. Components expand, collapse, reposition, and change variant based on persona, behaviour, and business goals to ensure the most important experiences appear exactly where they matter most and to who.

Discovery

Three picks. Zero guesswork.

Your Lucky Three uses behavioural signals, past entries, favourites, and engagement history to surface three campaigns each user is most likely to love. Designed to drive discovery and repeat sessions, users can enter all three with a single tap.

AI WORKFLOW

From brief to browser in a single workflow.

I leverage Cursor and AI agents to operate across product strategy, UX, and front-end development. The result is a continuous workflow where ideas evolve into production-ready experiences without the delays and friction of traditional handoffs.

creative workflow

Scaling creativity without sacrificing quality.

A structured AI workflow transformed how marketing assets were produced. Brand systems, creative guardrails, and curated asset libraries enabled faster concept generation, rapid iteration, and consistent output across formats, markets, and languages.

Tomorrow

Healthtech

A better Tomorrow, Today.

Previously known as Two72, Tomorrow transforms complex health data into clear, actionable guidance. I led the end-to-end product experience, helping turn blood biomarkers, biological age, and diagnostic insights into personalized actions people can actually understand and follow.

StatusIn Beta
Period2025
RoleHead of Product Design
HEALTH INSIGHTS

Turning biomarkers into action.

Raw blood data means little without context. I designed an experience that translates biomarkers, trends, and clinical insights into clear explanations, meaningful progress tracking, and personalized actions users can actually follow.

WEARABLES

Turning data into better decisions.

Workout tracking, activity, sleep, and recovery are automatically integrated with blood diagnostics to deliver more intelligent insights and personalized action plans.

CAFU

MOBILITY

Building the team behind the growth.

Over three years, I grew the design organisation from 3 to 15 rockstars and expanded my remit from product experience into research, content, and creative leadership, supporting CAFU’s evolution from fuel delivery app to mobility platform.

StatusLive
Period2022 - 2024
RoleHead of Product Design & Creative
PLATFORM TRANSFORMATION

From fuel delivery to mobility platform.

I led the complete redesign of CAFU’s consumer experience as the platform evolved beyond fuel. Working alongside engineering and product leadership, we rebuilt the experience from the ground up transforming a single-service product into a multi-service platform for fuel, car wash, tyres, batteries, oil changes, and more.

GROWTH CHALLENGE

Sign-up was blocking discovery.

The platform optimized for registration instead of exploration. Users were asked to commit before understanding the product, creating unnecessary friction at the very start of the journey.

CONVERSION STRATEGY

Turning registration into a reward.

Instead of leading with registration, we introduced an immediate reward that users could claim upon sign-up. By creating a clear and tangible benefit upfront, account creation became part of the value proposition rather than a barrier to entry.

CONVERSION STRATEGY

Commitment first. Authentication second.

Users were allowed to explore, configure, and build intent before being asked to register. By delaying authentication until the point of commitment, we reduced friction without compromising account creation or verification requirements.

IMPACT

Design decisions backed by data.

Every change was grounded in a simple principle: reduce friction, increase intent. The result was measurable improvements across activation, account creation, engagement, and early-stage churn.

Activation Rate

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30 days after release

The gamified experience created a strong incentive to complete their first order.

Bounce Rate

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30 days after release

Users were more engaged after launch and less likely to close the app immediately.

Account Creation / Sessions

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30 days after release

Signup now feels natural – part of the flow, not forced upfront

Pre Account Creation Churn

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30 days after release

We only ask for their number when they're ready to act + intent is high.

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