Founding Designer

Fifteen years
designing products
people actually use.

First designer at Swvl, where I shipped a redesign that’s still in the deck that took Swvl to Nasdaq. Consumer craft, B2B SaaS, and the engineering to build it: React, Next.js, shipped to production.

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THE WORK

Live

Swvl Customer App redesign

Consumer · booking flow · still in the Nasdaq listing deck

92% of successful bookings ran through a workaround, not search. I rebuilt the flow around where people were actually going. In testing, the redesigned flow averaged 29 seconds against 1:20 for the old one.

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Swvl for Business (TASS)

B2B SaaS · 0-to-1 · 2020

Transportation-as-a-Service for enterprises, launched mid-pandemic. 100+ clients, ~115% net dollar retention.

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Building Swvl's design function

Leadership · 0→10 designers · 2018–22

First designer to a team of ten across Cairo and Dubai. Process, ladder, hiring bar, tools.

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nandbox messaging app

Consumer · sole designer · 2015–18

Privacy-first chat: one number, separate profiles for public, friends, family, work.

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SHOWREEL

I design how things move, not just how they look. Four interaction prototypes, playing in sequence.

SWVL · HOME & WHERE-TO SEARCH 01/04
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About

THE PERSON

I design products people use, and I build them too.

I joined Swvl as its first designer and left as a design manager, having grown the team from zero to ten across Cairo and Dubai. I shipped a consumer redesign that competitors went on to mirror and that still appears in Swvl’s public listing materials, and designed the B2B platform behind 100+ enterprise clients. More recently I went deep on engineering, CS50, production work in Next.js and React, because a designer who can build is a sharper designer.

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Always happy to talk product, design, and building things · Manchester / remote