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Arqum Usmani

About

I design for the version of the problem that's actually true.

Most product problems get solved twice: once for the version stakeholders describe, and once for the version the evidence actually supports. I try to spend as little time as possible on the first one. That’s most of what “opinionated” means when I say it about my own work.

I care about healthcare, AI, and SaaS specifically because they’re the domains where the constraints are real (regulatory, technical, organisational) and a design that ignores them doesn’t just look wrong, it doesn’t ship.

I grew up in Karachi and trained as a designer in Islamabad, where I still live and work. Every team I’ve shipped for since has been based in the US, which in practice mostly means my mornings start with someone else’s afternoon.

Portrait of Arqum Usmani

Career

2024–Present

Oak Street Technologies

Lead Product Designer

2023–2024

Hiibo

Lead Designer

2021–2023

Stella Technology

UI/UX Engineer

2019–2021

CloudFruit

Product Designer

2017–2019

Freelance

Design & front-end, Karachi

Tools

Design

  • Figma
  • FigJam
  • Illustrator
  • Principle

Build

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Motion