A little bit about me, what I do and why I do it.

In a nutshell 🥜

In Years
9 years of experience as a Product Designer, with the last 4 years as a Design Manager
As a Design Manager
Grew product design teams in both numbers and skills. Build team/ individual OKRs
As a Design Manager
Created processes adapted by product teams.
As a Design Manager
Worked on high-level projects that impacted product NPS positively
As a Design Manager
Presented to stakeholders at various levels, ensuring their buy-in and involvement in the design process
As a Design Manager
Conducted UX workshops to gain user insights and create designs that aligned with user needs
As a Design Manager
Worked with remote teams
As an Individual contributor
Worked on individual projects demonstrating versatility and adaptability in design roles
As a Product designer
Received the UXC UX certificate from NN/G

My career so far

Pennylane
Product Design Manager
April 2022- April 2023
Mawdoo3 & MakanE
User Experience Manager
Aug 2019 - April 2022
Samsung R&D
User Experience Designer
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Plexable
User Experience Designer
Jun 2017- Nov 2017
Appslab
User Experience Designer
Mar 2013- May 2017

Education & Certification

NN/g NielsenNorman Group
UXC UX certificate UXC# 1041064
Nov 20- 2020
German Jordanian University
BA Architectural Engineering
Sep 2009- Feb 2015

More about me, if you're really bored

Born in Iraq in 1991 ( Yes, I am a war baby ) moved to Jordan because, you guessed it, war, in 2005. Struggled to find my identity while trying to fit in. So basically, just like the story of all high school movies. 

I decided to study Architecture because I have so much creativity locked inside and no way or idea on how to let it out ( I have no hobbies 😅 ). I worked in Germany for about a year as an architect and realized that this was not working for me; I was only told what to do and how to do it and not be creative. 

I took what I learned in Architecture on how to design better environments for humans to be happy and productive and started implementing it in my work as a UX/UI designer for a gaming company. ( Fun fact: I didn't know what UX really means at that point 😬 ) from then began my journey into learning and working as a UX designer.

As for my personal life ( don't worry, I am not going to overshare ), I am happily married to my best friend and have the cutest boy in the whole damn universe (undebatable). I love traveling, watching movies, documentaries, TV shows, basically all of the categories on Netflix, yes, even Standups.