Ahmed YoussefAvailable Immediately

Turningcomplex
productsinto
intuitiveexperiences.

Senior Product Designer, six years in — shaping enterprise SaaS, AI platforms, fintech and HR tech for teams from seed-stage startups to global banks. Currently leading design at Lumofy, previously with Wittify.ai, Billqode, Jobzella, Reno Systems and Catwalk21.

6+

Years

30+

Shipped

15+

Industries

$1.5M

Raised

Portrait of Ahmed Youssef

Currently

Lumofy

6+ yrs
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How I work

A process built
for enterprise reality.

Eight repeatable moves. Each one closes a specific risk before it reaches production.

01

Research

Interviews and audits to map the real problem.

02

Problem Definition

A sharp, testable problem and success metrics.

03

Information Architecture

Structure that makes complexity feel effortless.

04

Wireframes

Layout and logic locked early, at low fidelity.

05

Prototype

Interactive flows that feel like the product.

06

Usability Testing

Real users, real tasks, iterate until it clicks.

07

High-Fidelity UI

Pixel-crafted screens on a tokenised system.

08

Developer Handoff

Specs and tokens that survive production.

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Skills · Toolkit

What I bring
to the room.

Information Architecture

User Flows

Wireframing

Visual Design

Typography

Responsive

Accessibility

Motion & Micro-interactions

Product Strategy

Turning business goals into a focused product direction and roadmap.

UX Research

Qualitative interviews, usability tests and analytics that replace guesswork with evidence.

Design Systems

Tokens, components and documentation that keep teams aligned at scale.

Prototyping

High-fidelity flows in Figma, Framer and code — validated before build.

Product Analytics

Component Libraries

Discovery Workshops

Agile / Scrum

Product Discovery

Developer Handoff

AI-assisted Design

Figma

Framer

Notion

Linear

Jira

Miro · FigJam

HTML · CSS

Photoshop

Illustrator

Shopify

Leadership

UX Writing

Growth Design

Design Ops

A/B Testing

Customer Journey

Roadmapping

Experience

Six years,
six teams.

A quiet chronology of the products I've shaped and the teams I've shaped them with.

  1. Lumofy

    Aug 2025 — Present

    Senior Product Designer

    Leading design across ten interconnected modules of an AI talent management platform.

  2. Wittify.ai

    Jan 2024 — Aug 2025

    Senior Product Designer

    Shaped a no-code AI agent studio; design carried the pitch to a $1.5M pre-seed round.

  3. BillQode

    Dec 2024 — Nov 2025

    Product Designer · Part-time

    Restaurant management SaaS across mobile, tablet, smartwatch and web back-office.

  4. Jobzella

    Jan 2023 — Dec 2024

    Product Designer

    SaaS platforms, landing pages and a scalable design system for a talent marketplace.

  5. Reno Systems

    Apr 2022 — Nov 2023

    Product Designer

    End-to-end web & mobile design for enterprise HR products; built reusable systems.

  6. Catwalk21

    Mar 2020 — Mar 2022

    Product Designer

    E-commerce experience across web and mobile — discovery, shopping, checkout and campaigns.

Education

Foundations,
formally earned.

Where the vocabulary comes from — a computer science degree, a UX nanodegree, and a Google certification.

  • Google

    Jul 2022

    Course Certificate · Coursera

    Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

    Grade 91.06% · 12 hours

  • Udacity

    Udacity

    Apr 2021 — Aug 2021

    Nanodegree · FWD Initiative

    Advanced UX Design Nanodegree

    Attention to detail, presentation skills +9 more

  • El Shorouk Academy

    El Shorouk Academy

    2015 — 2019

    Bachelor's Degree · HCI Coursework

    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

    Cairo, Egypt

Global reach

Shipped with teams across seven countries.

  • Egypt flagEgypt
  • Saudi Arabia flagSaudi Arabia
  • UAE flagUAE
  • Bahrain flagBahrain
  • Belgium flagBelgium
  • Türkiye flagTürkiye
  • Germany flagGermany

Kind words

Ahmed is the kind of designer every product org hopes to have when they're building something from scratch. When we were shaping Lumofy's mobile experience and reimagining Skills 2.0, he didn't just execute — he challenged assumptions, sharpened ideas, and made the product feel alive. He understands the tension between user empathy and business outcomes, and consistently bridges that gap through design that moves metrics, not just moods.
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Shehab Beram

Product @ Lumofy · Ex-Founder · Building & Scaling AI Products

Contact

Reach out on
any of these.

Based in Cairo, working with teams across Egypt, KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Belgium, Türkiye and Germany. Typical response within 12 hours.