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Turning complex systems into products people love using.
End to end, across fintech, Web3, automotive, enterprise SaaS and more.
25+
Built from scratch and from existing designs.
15+
A paid UI library, three free Figma Community releases and an open-source agent toolkit.
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English, Spanish, Arabic and Catalan, with RTL and LTR designed in from the start.
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Oumla
Financial Strategist
Three financial products, in English and Arabic RTL.
My contribution
Led product design across the suite and built its three design systems.
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AKASHA World
Systems Architect
Eight composable apps. One coherent social platform you own.
My contribution
Led the in-house design team across the apps, shared shell, wallet onboarding and moderation.
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Strands Labs
Financial Strategist
One white-label platform for banks. Four products, 20+ languages.
My contribution
Owned four connected products and the design system criteria behind them.
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AKASHA UI System
Systems Architect
An open-source component library for the AKASHA World apps.
My contribution
Led the design, from token architecture to documentation, working directly with engineers.
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World Builder
Systems Architect
A developer-only config file became a guided, no-code form.
My contribution
Led the design: information architecture, forms, validation and Build Preview.
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SEAT & CUPRA
Research Driver
Four automotive products, two brands, one bidirectional configurator.
My contribution
Owned Search and Aftersales. Collaborated on the Configurator and CUPRA Traveller.
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Etherlaken
Sprint Specialist
Concept, identity, IA, design and handoff. One two-week sprint.
For product leadership, ambitious projects and interesting collaborations.
Let's talk hey@basma.designFor product leadership, ambitious projects, and interesting collaborations.
Seven real projects, each a card. Open one for the whole story: the challenge, what I led and what shipped.
After the collection: The Purrcade
Lead Product Designer, 12+ years
12+ years of design experience across fintech, Web3 and blockchain, automotive, enterprise SaaS and more.
Read the dossierTokenized finance suite
Primary designer across a tokenized finance suite: three design systems, three products, English and Arabic RTL.
View case studyWeb3 social platform
Eight composable apps. One coherent social platform you own.
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One white-label platform for banks. Four products, 20+ languages.
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Open-source design system
An open-source component library for the AKASHA World apps.
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Deploy a decentralized world without writing a line of code.
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Four automotive products, two brands, one bidirectional configurator.
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Identity and website
Concept, identity, IA, design and handoff. One two-week sprint.
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Tiny games. Big meow energy.
A playful corner of my portfolio for things I build just because they're fun.
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Lead Product Designer with 12+ years turning complicated products into experiences people actually understand.
I've shipped white-label banking platforms, decentralized apps, car configurators, e-commerce, taxation tools, education platforms and travel apps. My strength is working through complex projects with many stakeholders and little documentation.
Generalist by nature, with deep design systems expertise. I lead end-to-end, from strategy to pixel, and I build and ship my own products on the side.
Primary designer across the product suite (TFM, Dashboard, Bahith) plus website pages, booth materials and decks: product UX, design systems, marketing material, in English and Arabic RTL. Three design systems built with AI and agents, one from scratch and two derived from existing designs; sales and key-partnership decks; templates for the business team: slides, documents and official documents.
End-to-end UX for a decentralized social platform, design team lead, design system ownership, foundation events.
Four white-label fintech products: PFM, Engager, BFM, ESG dashboard. Brandable, localizable, accessible component system.
Digital experiences for a global education platform.
Configurator (RTL and LTR), unified search, aftersales research, CUPRA Traveller.
Design systems, MVPs and investor proposals for startups across fintech, SaaS, Web3 and enterprise. Mentoring junior designers.
Taught JavaScript to master's students.
Design systems, plugins and AI workflows built to remove friction from making good products. Some save clicks. Some change the way I work.

For designers who want a shadcn-style neo-brutalist system with real tokens.

For teams building DeFi and Web3 finance products.

For design system owners migrating existing styles to Figma Variables.

For designers and writers editing copy across a frame.

Four specialized agents. One smarter design workflow.