About

Hello! I'm Ghaffar
Let's build a better tomorrow

• Manager Creative Services Unit (CSU) at kfupm.edu.sa
• Interaction Design Specialization at UC San Diego
• BS in Information Technology at University of Sindh

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a career, where I can pursue for the next 20 years, in an industry where the user experience is critical to a product’s success.

SUMMARY

User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) professional, with more than 9 years of experience in the User Interface and more than 2 years experience in User Experience Design. I am holding a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Sindh University, Jamshoro Sindh.

Currently, I am working with the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals as a User Experience and User Interface Professional (Team Lead) in the Information Technology Center (ITC). Engaged in doing user research, testing, and designing of the e-services. Have designed more than 500 websites/web applications. My experience helped develop my leadership, project management, and user’s need understanding. Beyond my skills and professionalism, I am very much interested in making people's lives easy by implement User Experience Design (UX) techniques. I have voluntarily helped SAMASOURCE, RARRE, and CPCS in Print Design, Website Design, Website Development and User Experience Design.

I am a design lover, love to solve problems, play squash, meet different people and learn new languages.

SNAPSHOT

Keen in User research.
Having years of experience in Visual design helps me when trying to understand people’s experiences, behaviors, and emotions towards products. User research and data analytics help me understand user's insights, needs, and expectations.


Passion for UI.
I produce attractive UI Designs which reflect the current design trends. This way, I come close to satisfying the users from the beginning of their journey and I often arrive at this from conducting research, brainstorming and creating wireframes.

- "View some of my UI Designs on Behanace"


Love sketching, Wireframing and Prototyping.
I take my designs to a higher level by creating them into a working prototype for user testing and demonstrating screen-to-screen flow. With the various kinds of tools out there, I love to explore what I can do with them.


Interested in front-end development.
Yes. I’m a designer who is enthusiastic about writing code. I believe in the power of understanding code when working not only with the engineers and product managers but also in expressing my creative ideas in a different way.
- "This portfolio website was hand-coded"


Love to Share knowledge.
In order to expand my knowledge about the field which I feel so passionate about, I regularly publish articles online. Not only I'm practicing how to communicate with many other professionals and students around the world but also, I'm enhancing my writing skills and knowledge.
- "View some of my articles on Medium"