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Basma Gh

Lead Product Designer 12+ years

I lead complex digital products from strategy to shipping: platforms, fintech, design systems and zero-to-one work, with AI in the workflow and craft intact.

  1. 12+Years designing and leading digital products
  2. 0 to 1From product strategy to shipped experiences
  3. SystemsDesign systems and complex product ecosystems at scale
  4. BuilderIndependent tools, products and AI-native workflows
Current roleSince March 2026

Lead Product Designer, Oumla

Primary designer across Oumla's tokenized finance suite on a part-time contract: product UX, design systems and marketing material, delivered bilingually in English and Arabic RTL.

  • Three design systems from scratch, built with AI and the agents I created; Dashboard and Bahith derived from inconsistent designs that had no system
  • Three products: TFM trading, approval and settlement flows; Dashboard role-based access control; the Bahith explorer
  • Arabic/RTL as a first-class deliverable across products and documentation
  • Website pages, booth materials, sales and key-partnership decks, and templates for the business team: slides, documents and official documents
  • A repeatable AI-assisted production process (Read, Decide, Write, Publish) with design decisions kept in my hands
What can be shared today

Selected expertise

Product leadership and strategy
Led AKASHA's design team and external agencies across 8 apps; investor proposals and MVPs for 20+ clients.
Complex systems UX
Decentralized platforms, tokenized finance, white-label banking, car configurators.
Design systems
AKASHA UI (open source), the Strands white-label system, three systems from scratch at Oumla built with AI and agents.
Zero-to-one product creation
Forge, Galley, Neo Brutalism UI Library and NeonFi, from idea to published.
AI-native design and development workflows
Claude through the Figma MCP and Claude Code for production work; a Read, Decide, Write, Publish process that keeps decisions mine; Galley and Forge coded solo.

Career history

  1. 2026 to now
    OumlaLead Product Designer, part-time contract

    Primary designer across the product suite: three design systems, three products, English and Arabic RTL.

    More

    TFM (trading, approval and settlement flows, TFM Design System), Oumla Dashboard (role-based access control, Dashboard Design System), Bahith (blockchain explorer, design system rebuilt from tokens up). Website pages for the revamp, booth materials, sales deck, investor deck, SAB booth deck, NHC/Sakani presentations, DDQ responses, and templates for the business team (slides, documents, official documents).

  2. 2021 to 2026
    AKASHA FoundationLead Product Designer

    Led design across 8 composable apps and the open-source AKASHA UI.

    More

    Design team lead, external agencies, design system ownership, four foundation events (ETHBucharest, ETHCluj, ETHDam, ETHWarsaw). World Builder and Etherlaken shipped from the same seat.

  3. 2021
    Strands Labs (now Strands by CRIF)Lead Principal Designer

    Four white-label fintech products for banks, 20+ languages, LTR and RTL.

    More

    PFM, Engager, BFM and the ESG dashboard on one brandable, localizable, accessible component system. Insight campaigns launched in about 2 minutes instead of weeks.

  4. 2020
    ESL EducationProduct Designer

    Digital experiences for a global education platform.

  5. 2019 to 2020
    C14 (SEAT & CUPRA, VW Group)Product Designer

    Bidirectional car configurator, unified search, aftersales research, CUPRA Traveller.

  6. 2014 to now
    FreelanceLead Product Designer, 20+ clients

    Design systems, MVPs and investor proposals across fintech, SaaS, Web3 and enterprise.

  7. 4+ years
    SHIFTA by ELISAVAJavaScript teacher, master's level

    Taught JavaScript to master's students.

Education

  • Master's in Web Design and Internet Projects ManagementELISAVA Barcelona, 2018
  • Bachelor of IT in Graphics and MultimediaUniversiti Tenaga Nasional, 2014

Languages

English, Spanish, Arabic, Catalan

Based in

Spain, working worldwide, remote-first. Open to full-time roles and contracts.

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