
Ihab Emil Shoukralla
A Product Designer (UX/UI) | UX researcher | UX/UI Design Mentor
Salary / Daily rate
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
About me
Intro
As a Product Designer with 12 years of experience in the field of UX/UI Design, I have successfully designed exceptional products and services for various brands: ▪︎Orange Egypt ▪︎Etisalat Egypt ▪︎Majid Al Futtaim Carrefour My experience spans over several industries such as Telecom, healthcare, retail e-commerce and SaaS serving customers (B2C) and corporates (SME & Enterprise) (B2B). About Me ▪︎ Designer ▪︎ UX/UI Design mentor ▪︎ Interim Scrum master ▪︎ Brand auditor ▪︎ Customer experience specialist My skills ▪︎Ideation workshops ▪︎UX research: usability testing, A/B testing, one-to-one interviews ▪︎Analytics tools such as: Google Analytics (certified) and Hotjar ▪︎User onboarding tools as as Userpilot ▪︎Industry top tools: Figma, sketch and Miro ▪︎Prototyping tools such as Figma, Protopie and Principle ▪︎Development tools such as Webflow ▪︎Project management tools such as JIRA ▪︎User experience Design (UXD) when it comes to creating low fidelity wireframes ▪︎User Interface design (UID) when it comes to creating appealing interfaces and creation of design systems I believe in giving back to the community: I am mentoring junior designers on adplist.org and happy to say I am a mentee myself, learning from more senior designers everyday. I believe in nourishing my soft skills especially when it comes to communications and storytelling. I had the privilege in participating heavily as a designer in 2 major design makeover while my work in Orange and Etisalat; the privilege of designing a full e-commerce platform for Majid Al Futtaim Carrefour services several countries in Asia and Africa mainly UAE, KSA and Egypt along with the support of an a amazing design team.
Work experience
Senior Manager UI
Aster DM Healthcare
Dec 2024 - Present
1 year 11 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
UX/UI Design mentor
adplist.org
Apr 2022 - Present
4 years 7 months
Staff Product Designer
Procurified
May 2023 - Dec 2024
1 year 8 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
Unifonic
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
1 year 6 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
As a member of the small Design team in Unifonic (2 members), my main role is to design and maintain Unifonic cPaSS platform. • Assessing product requirements, conducted research and competitive analysis to propose the most suitable solutions. • Leading ideation sessions with stakeholders to have a functional concept. • Designing sketches, flows and low fidelity wireframes to assess validity of proposed solution. • Building a design system from scratch and maintaining it. • Created functional prototypes to demonstrate the interactive part of the designs. • Co-owning the full onboarding experience on the platform (tool used Userpilot). • Moderating usability tests. • Designing user interfaces. • Performing a design quality assurance for developed ones.
Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)
Majid Al Futtaim
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
4 years 2 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
As a member of the UX/UI team in Carrefour, my main role is to create pleasant and simple user experiences from start to end for the e-commerce solutions on several platforms: web, mobile app and in-store apps as well as provide guidance for 3rd party vendor applications. • Assess product requirements, conduct research and benchmarks to propose the most suitable solutions. • Design sketches, flows and low fidelity wireframes to assess validity of proposed solution. • Conduct user testing with real users to validate proposed solutions. With the testing being done via an external entity, my responsibility is to create the scripts, testing scenarios and sometimes even moderate the testing myself. • Create remote user testing via tools such as usability Hub. • Create functional prototypes for testing and demonstration purposes. • Design user interfaces based on established design systems. • Work closely with Developers and other stakeholders to ensure final designs match intended ones and conduct quality control over the finalized designs. • Work on building a design system, supporting in strategy and implementation. • Regularly analyzing data via different Analytics tools mainly Google Analytics and Hot Jar. • For an interim period of time, I was managing the traffic of the team whereby I was assigning tasks to designers and following up with them and other stakeholders. • Work with finance to fulfill the UX/UI team financial requirements mainly the purchase of tools and hardware. • Support junior designers in their work and onboard new joiners.
Product Design Team leader (UX/UI)
Etisalat Misr
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
11 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Working within a team of two, including myself, in creating experiences for users of Etisalat platforms: web and mobile app for B2C and B2B products. • Assess product requirements, conduct research and benchmarks to propose the most suitable solutions and coordinate with stakeholders on delivery. • Design sketches, flows and low fidelity wireframes to assess validity of proposed solution. • Create functional prototypes to demonstrate the interactive part of the designs. • Participate in focus groups sessions. • Design user interfaces mainly for web and mobile app. • Regularly analyzing data via different Analytics tools mainly Google Analytics. • Manage junior designers.
Product Design Manager (UX/UI)
Vezeeta By DrBridge
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
8 months
Heliopolis, Al Matar, El Nozha, Cairo Governorate 4470351, Egypt
Working within a team of two, including myself, in establishing and building the first healthcare digital model in Egypt and the region available on web and mobile app. • Working alongside product team to come up with new features. • Audit and propose enhancements on different products. • Design sketches, flows and low fidelity wireframes to assess validity of proposed solution. • Planning, conducting A/B tests and analyzing results. • Design user interfaces. • Regularly analyzing data via different Analytics tools. • Manage junior designers.
Orange
Nov 2007 - Dec 2015
8 years 2 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
UX/UI & CX (Customer Experience) Designer
Nov 2012 - Dec 2015
3 years 2 months
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Proudly the first UX Designer in the company as the Customer Experience department was first established. Working on creating and enhancing experiences for online digital platforms and handling offline journeys as well. • Working alongside product team to come up with new features and enhancing exiting ones. • Design sketches, flows and low fidelity wireframes to assess validity of proposed solution. • Design user interfaces. • Work on customer experience projects and providing audit reports and proposed solutions to support customers using offline channels such as stores and call center.
Brand and Quality control Senior Specialist
Dec 2009 - Oct 2012
2 years 11 months
Nile City Towers - Cairo - Egypt
Working within a team acting as in-house agency for Orange Egypt, my role was to act as Brand Ambassador making sure our Brand implementation is correct and consistent in all the different touchpoints. • Validating all designs whether meant for online or offline channels. • Establish guidelines, instructions and templates to be followed to maintain brand consistency, • Communicating with 3rd parties and agencies about brand updates. • Support design team with printing materials design when needed.
Corporate Governance Specialist
Nov 2007 - Dec 2009
2 years 2 months
Nile City Towers - Cairo - Egypt
Within the governance, my role was facilitating the work of the Board of Directors and the General assembly. • Act as means of communication between 3rd parties and top management. • Prepare and organize meetings for both board members and members of the general assembly.
Administrative Officer
UNDP
Dec 2005 - May 2007
1 year 6 months
Maadid, Algeria
Assuming the role of administrating officer for an environmental project sponsored by UNDP. • Managing procurement tasks. • Work on the project budget and manage expenses and auditing. • Handle employment and payroll. • Handle communications with different stakeholders.
Trainee
Abn-Amro Delta - Brokerage firm
Jul 1998 - Aug 1998
2 months
1- Assisted in daily transactions 2- Monitored stock changes and reported them 3- Assisted in entry of data into computer system
Education
The American University in Cairo (AUC)
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science
2001 - 2005
4 years 1 month
The Holy Family School (Jesuites)
High School, Science
1987 - 2000
13 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
3000 Mentorship Minutes
Issued: Nov 2022
Introduction to Graphic Design: Concepts
Issued: Jul 2022