About me

Developer by origin, designer by obsession, mentor by choice.

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Muhammad Saqlain Mirza · Senior UI/UX & Product Designer

I make complicated products feel obvious. Fewer “wait, where do I click?” moments, more people getting what they came for.

My career started in 2017 as a front-end developer at Nexthon Technologies. Building interfaces line by line taught me how design decisions survive (or don’t) once they meet real code, and by 2018 I had moved fully into UI/UX design for web and mobile apps.

Since then I’ve worked across agencies and product teams, delivering end-to-end projects for clients in the UK, a Dubai-based company with roots in the Czech Republic, and businesses closer to home. I’ve led platform redesigns, run user research, built design systems and taken products from first sketch to shipped.

Today I’m a Senior Consultant – UI/UX at Systems Limited, leading UX strategy and product design for enterprise solutions and mentoring junior designers to keep quality and consistency high.

  • 8+Years designing
  • 6Companies
  • 2Certifications
  • 100+Clients
  • 99%Client satisfaction

Principles

01

Clarity over cleverness

If a screen needs explaining, it needs redesigning. I strip interfaces back until the next step is obvious.

02

Research before pixels

Interviews, surveys, audits and usability tests come first, so design decisions rest on evidence, not taste.

03

Systems that scale

Consistent components and patterns keep big products coherent and let teams ship faster.

04

Design with engineering

My developer background means I design for how things are actually built and hand off work that holds up.

Skills

Core skills

  • User Experience (UX)
  • User Interface (UI)
  • Product Design
  • User Research
  • Information Architecture
  • Design Systems
  • App Design
  • Adaptive Web Design
  • Low-Fidelity Wireframes
  • High-Fidelity Prototypes
  • User Interviews
  • User Surveys
  • User Journey Maps
  • Usability Testing
  • Sitemaps
  • Competitive Audits
  • Mind Mapping
  • Graphic Design

Design tools

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Sketch
  • Adobe XD
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Balsamiq
  • Miro
  • Microsoft Office

Front-end & AI build

  • Design to code with AI
  • Responsive front-end
  • HTML & CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Figma to code
  • Interactive animation
  • Accessibility
  • Deploying to Vercel

AI tools

  • Figma Make
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude AI
  • Lovable

Credentials

Certification

Designing User Interfaces and Experiences (UI/UX)

IBM

Certification

User Interface Designer

California Institute of the Arts

Education

BSc Computer Science

NCBA&E · Oct 2016 – Aug 2020

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