Karim Soliman

Karim Soliman

Senior Product Designer in Riyadh

A Product Designer who creates digital products that are intuitive, seamless and easy to use experiences by humans.

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2024 — Now
2024 — 2024
Riyadh

Awaed is the first Saudi licensed platform that allows access to all investment products such as investment funds and stock markets through one place and one portfolio.

Awaed platform is the first Saudi licensed platform that allows access to all investment products such as investment funds and stock markets through one place and one portfolio, for all types of users, from investors to non-investors, by empowering them through an easy and flexible user experience.

2022 — 2024
Cairo

Sllr is a free All-in-One E-Commerce Solution, helps SMEs effortlessly kickstart their business, launch online store and start selling in minutes.

  • Built the features and the tools that will help Sellers to grow, build their brands, and drive more sales

  • Helped shape the product vision, features backlog and roadmap.

  • Designed the transfer journey for Bosta users transitioning to Sllr, facilitating a seamless and user-friendly experience. This resulted in a smooth transition for a large number of users, leading to increased online stores created and sales orders volume.

  • Reported bi-weakly product pulse check report briefing to stakeholders and PMs, by watching hotjar recordings of how users interact with the product, and observing any experience issues, pain, rooms of improvements or opportunities for new features, which had a huge impact on the conversion rate and

  • Contributed to improving the overall Sllr design by actively participating in branding, visual design, and design system development. Introduced new elements and components to address unique challenges and ensure a cohesive and user-centric design experience.

  • Assisted Sllr in the process of creating the brand direction with the external agencies for branding and marketing initiatives, actively involved in the entire process. Collaborated with external partners, ensuring alignment with the company's vision and goals.

  • Managed the hiring and onboarding process of the design team.

  • Developed a comprehensive design system, ensuring consistent aesthetics and user experience across products. Modernized the main product, improving usability and design standards.

2021 — 2024
Cairo

Bosta is a leading logistics-tech company founded in Egypt with the aim to expand and empower the logistics industry in the MENA region.

  • Unified the design language across the designers and engineers by introducing "The Red Box" Bosta's design system, setting a unified design framework across products. Developed guidelines and components to improve user experience and brand identity.

  • Revamped UI and enhanced user-centered experience of Bosta's front facing platforms 'web dashboard and mobile applications', and applying the new design system across the pages and new features to deliver a unified cohesive user experience.

  • Oversaw Bosta rebranding, by aligning with Brand Designers and marketing teams and made sure the rebranding capture the product essence, look and feel.

  • Led the new design system creation process:
    - Creating a UI Inventory (Patterns/Components, Colors, Typography, Icons and illustrations)
    - Mapping each common inconsistent elements to a new unified and consistent ones
    - aligned and planed with engineers the rolling out and applying of design system changes timeline\

  • Revamped the core function of Bosta dashboard which is shipment order creation experience,


    Unified the design language across Bosta products platforms with our frontend team and engineers, revamped the business dashboard that our users use to add orders, request pickups, track their shipments, monitor their performance through reports and analytics, check their revenue through their wallet and seek support and help.

As a Solo designer in the customer facing products at Bosta, i was responsible of designing, revamping and enhancing the Bussiness Dashboard, i work closely with the PMs, Data team, engineers and stakeholders.

2019 — 2021
Cairo
  • Led UI/UX design efforts at WMCA, or 'We Make Cool Apps,' resulting in the delivery of outstanding client solutions encompassing UI/UX, visual design, and interactive experiences.

  • Helped big names in various industries like Paymob, Emaar, Juhyna, Pepsi, Elgouna Palm Hills and more creating user-centered design experiences through mobile applications, websites, landing pages and special edition website related to a marketing campaigns.

  • Revamped design processes resulted in a substantial boost to WMCA's revenue and expanded client base.

  • Led the design process from interviewing stakeholders to get a clear problem statement and layout requirement proposed solutions

2018 — 2019
  • Defined, improved, and launched consumer mobile and web platforms / products / features at scale.
2024
Framer Expert from Framer & Contra

i've recently became a Framer expert on Contra

Projects

2021

Redesigned the app overall experience, fixed the usability issues and introduced new features.

Writing

2022

The story of how a game 'Buy the feature" help us shape and crafting a user-driven product roadmap.