Abdelrhman Mohamed Ahmed

Product & UX Designer

Cairo, Egypt+20 106 018 6622 hi@theshaaer.com theshaaer.com

Summary

Product & UX Designer with 4 years of experience turning ambiguous 0-to-1 problems into build-ready web and mobile products. I work across research, complex workflows, Arabic-first UX, accessibility, and design systems: frame the real decision, make the trade-off visible, and give product and engineering teams a clear path to ship. Computer Science background; experience spans EdTech, AI, HealthTech, travel, SaaS, and bilingual products across 8 client markets.

Experience

UX/UI Designer · Luftborn

Feb 2025 – Present

Copenhagen, Denmark · Full-time

Turn ambiguous client requirements into clear product decisions, accessible flows, and build-ready responsive interfaces.
Partner with product, engineering, and client stakeholders to balance user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints.

Product Designer · Tutoruu

Jul 2024 – Feb 2025

Heliopolis, Cairo · Full-time

Owned product design across Ruu AI, B2B and B2C journeys, payment flows, onboarding, and partner portals.
Redesigned Ruu AI's experience, contributing to a 20% lift in user engagement.
Used research, product data, and usability testing to address prompting, payment, and dashboard friction.

UI/UX Designer · Independent Freelancer

Jul 2023 – Jan 2025

Remote · Remote

Led 0-to-1 product design for 14+ EdTech, SaaS, and startup engagements, turning early questions into usable flows, prototypes, and systems.
Designed Arabic-first and bilingual experiences across 8 client markets, balancing localization, responsive behavior, and handoff constraints.

UX Design Intern · Kerning Cultures Network

Apr – May 2023

Dubai, UAE

Conducted 50+ user interviews and usability tests to identify where the website and its flows were losing people.
Translated research into clearer structure, user flows, and high-fidelity prototypes for the company website.

Web Designer · Xtreme Digital Agency

Jul 2022 – Apr 2023

Heliopolis, Cairo · Full-time

Designed 43+ responsive WordPress websites and implemented interactive front-end features with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Balanced client goals, brand requirements, and delivery constraints to ship polished work on tight timelines.

Selected projects

Tutoruu · AI learning platform

Product Design · AI · EdTech

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Solo Product Designer across B2C and B2B: split landing paths, redesigned AI prompting, and added two payment rails; engagement rose 20%.
Built a variables-based multi-brand design system, exported to JSON and validated in Storybook for three university partner portals.

Taa Marbuta · Women's health platform

HealthTech · 0-to-1 · RTL-first

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Led two iOS-first apps from zero: 265+ patient and clinic screens, with RTL-native trust and booking flows for Arab women.
Designed separate patient and clinic experiences around their distinct mental models, including verification, credentials, and review signals.

Islam Online · Arabic knowledge platform

Platform Redesign · Design System

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Modernized a 25-year Arabic platform with 95M+ views through a mobile-first system and four-layer tokens shipped as JSON and CSS.
Prioritized search and accessibility with a 3-person team; shipped documented patterns that earned a 4.22 / 5 UX rating and NPS 8.05 / 10.

Wandr · Travel marketplace platform

Marketplace · 0-to-1 · Travel

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Designed both sides of a travel marketplace after 200+ surveys, agency interviews, and six personas identified group booking as the core friction.
Reframed group booking so each traveler owns their documents and preferences; designed an agency trip-creation wizard that lowered the barrier to go digital.

Skills

Product

0-to-1 Product DesignUX StrategyBilingual UXDesign SystemsAI-assisted Workflows

Research

User ResearchUsability TestingHeuristic EvaluationInformation ArchitectureAccessibility

Design

Interaction DesignWireframingPrototypingResponsive DesignRTL Design

Tools

FigmaFramerAdobe XDWebflowMiroPhotoshop

Engineering

HTML5CSS3JavaScriptBootstrapWordPress

Education

Cairo University, Faculty of Computers & AI

B.Sc. Computer Science & AI, Information Systems

Giza, Egypt · Sep 2020 – Jul 2024

Graduation project: A+, scored 196 / 200.
Coursework: Web Development, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analysis.

Community

Host & Producer · Figmawya Podcast

Sep 2024 – Present

Produce 5 UX-focused shows and 80+ episodes that turn complex product decisions into practical, MENA-grounded learning for Arabic designers.
Translate advanced product and UX concepts into clear, story-driven lessons built for the realities of working in MENA.

Certifications