Umar Farooq

Product Designer and Design Engineer

Portfolio '26

I’m a Product Designer who turns complex problems into intuitive, impactful products, helping companies across AI, fintech and enterprise SaaS bring their vision to life. From research and strategy to prototypes, code and launch, I connect user needs with business goals and deliver measurable results.

Currently at S&P GlobalBased in Netherlands

Selected Work

S&P Global: CIQ PRO Dashboard

  • Web
  • Financial Intelligence
  • Protected

Clutter out, personalisation in

2024 to Present

A redesign of CIQ Pro's dashboard: less clutter, the information analysts need up front, and Add widgets and Manage lists so each analyst can personalise it, with every widget redesigned.

S&P Global: CIQ PRO Dashboard

  • Web
  • Financial Intelligence
  • Protected

Clutter out, personalisation in

2024 to Present

A redesign of CIQ Pro's dashboard: less clutter, the information analysts need up front, and Add widgets and Manage lists so each analyst can personalise it, with every widget redesigned.

S&P Global: Chart Explainer

  • Web
  • Financial Intelligence
  • Protected

71% faster chart → explanation

2026

An AI-powered panel inside S&P Capital IQ that explains what's moving a stock, turning a dense price chart into a clear, readable narrative of the events behind every swing.

Vodafone Qatar: Agent Platform

  • Web
  • Enterprise
  • Telecom

~40% faster handling time

6 months

A six-month, six-designer revamp of Vodafone Qatar's branch agent platform, rebuilding the entire in-store workspace around agents' real workflows and a new CRM, from plan activation to SIM management and BPO operations, fully responsive across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Etisalat: e&money

  • Mobile
  • FinTech
  • Digital Wallet

Everyday money, one app

2023

A digital wallet and financial super-app for the UAE, hold money, send abroad, pay bills, top up, and manage cards, all under one bold e& brand.

Allied Bank: myABL

  • Mobile
  • Digital Banking

17M+ transactions / year

2023 to 2024

A full UX/UI revamp of Allied Bank's digital banking app, modernizing every core journey on a new, scalable atomic design system, for an app serving 1M+ users and 17M+ transactions a year.

Sarmaaya

  • Mobile
  • FinTech
  • Investing

82% would invest with guidance

2023

A research-backed mobile app that turns hesitant first-timers into confident investors, combining financial literacy, research, and mutual-fund investing in one approachable product.

TransRe: Reserve Study

  • Web
  • Insurance
  • Reinsurance

~80% faster data retrieval

2023 to 2024

An internal CRM that replaced TransRe's spreadsheet-driven reserve workflow with a structured, data-heavy platform built around powerful advanced filtering.

Harvard Law School: SHARIAsource

  • Web
  • Digital Library
  • Legal Research

Search across ~700K records

2022

A digital research portal for Islamic law from Harvard Law School, bringing authenticated primary sources, expert commentary, and a global scholarly community into one navigable platform.

NBF: Design System

  • Design System
  • Banking

2 brands, 1 system

Feb 2024 (v1.0)

The National Bank of Fujairah Design System: foundations, atomic components, templates, two brand families on one set of tokens and journey maps, documented in Figma and carried into Storybook.

AllpdfTools: PDF Workspace

  • Vibe coded
  • Productivity

Tools free, workspace paid

2026

A full-stack PDF workspace built with AI coding agents: 31 working tools across organising, optimising, converting, editing, security and AI, plus a signature workspace with templates, contacts, teams and workflows.

Recognition & talks

  • Design Patent · S&P Global2026
  • AI Summit Lahore · Speaker2026
  • UX Pakistan · Speaker2025
  • Friends of Figma Lahore · Panelist2024
  • Star of the Quarter · Systems Limited2023
  • Hackathon Winner · Mobilink Bank2022

My strengths

I specialise in three things

01Product design

From research and user journeys to shipped interfaces, I design products that make complicated workflows feel obvious, and I stay with them after launch.

02Design engineering

I take designs past the handoff, building production-ready interfaces and AI-powered tools myself, so what ships is what was designed.

03Design systems

I build the foundations teams scale on: tokens, components and documentation that keep many designers and developers describing the same thing.

My process

  1. 01Understand
  2. 02Define
  3. 03Sketch
  4. 04Wireframe
  5. 05Design & iteration
  6. 06Design engineering
  7. 07Test & refine
  1. 01Understand
  2. 02Define
  3. 03Sketch
  4. 04Wireframe
  5. 05Design & iteration
  6. 06Design engineering
  7. 07Test & refine

Companies & clients

Have a project or a role in mind?

I’m always happy to talk about design, products and teams. Tell me what you’re working on.