I prototype so teams can decide faster.

Senior Product Designer
10+ years of solving product logic through experience strategy, prototyping, and coaching teams to align early in the product cycle.

End the debate.

Designing for banter between football gamers

Mobile App (iOS & Android)2023 – Ongoing

Kickd came out of university FIFA arguments — the result screen gets skipped and all you're left with is he-said-she-said. I designed and shipped it to both app stores: the score read off the post-match screen by OCR or typed in, confirmed by your opponent before it counts, with the banter landing on the result itself. The dev partners built from Figma, so I handed them running prototypes of the interactions rather than annotated stills — the specificity Figma can't carry.

Role
  • Founder · Design & interaction craft
Team
  • Myself (Design)
  • David (Tech)
  • Talal (Ops)
Outcome
  • Out on iOS and Android in open beta, with around half of logged results now carrying a reaction. An AI-native setup — Claude wired to Supabase, Mixpanel and Granola over MCP — keeps usage data beside the workflow.
Run the business, not the invoice.

Bringing structure to Pakistan's informal creator economy

Mobile App (iOS & Android)2025 – Ongoing

Creators run a business out of WhatsApp and a spreadsheet, and wait 60–120 days to be paid. I took it from first conversation to build-ready in five months, structured around the business rather than the invoice — clients, agreements, milestones that can be refused as well as approved, and a running ledger underneath. Getting that model right early meant no architectural rebuild months post-launch. Not a job tracker; the admin layer a freelance business actually runs on.

Role
  • Head of Product Experience
Team
  • Founder
  • Myself (Product Experience)
  • Junior Product Designer
Outcome
  • In closed beta, with the brand platform — the flip side of the same marketplace — now in prototype.
  • A prototype-first build aligned investors and the first beta users in five months.
What if a community could breathe together?

Designing an air quality system for communities

Air Quality Ecosystem2023 – Ongoing

Most air purifiers in Pakistan are ugly plastic boxes people hide in cupboards — and out of sight, the problem stops existing, in a city with some of the worst air in the world. Kair is the first product out of Phir/Se, the studio I co-founded: I designed the purifier, set the app's structure and core UX, and designed the storefront it sells through. Five builds from cardboard to walnut — aligning hardware constraints like single-sheet plywood yield along the way — with 100 units now in production.

Role
  • Founding Designer — purifier, app & storefront
Team
  • Myself & Co-founder
  • Design engineer
  • Hardware & software partners
Outcome
  • 100 purifiers in production, with pre-orders open on the live storefront.
Current role · Confidential
Caught before the rollout.

Prototype-first design inside a logistics startup

Web2025 – Ongoing

The platform was modelled around a single account view, and merchants operate across several — the job they actually came for was comparing between them. I built that view as a working prototype: what aggregates, what compares, what stays separate, argued out in the room instead of in a spec. The rework landed before mass rollout rather than after it.

Role
  • Head of Design
Focus
  • Prototyping
  • Experience Design
  • Culture Change
Outcome
  • A core data model corrected before rollout, not after. Prototyping is now part of the workflow rather than something I bring.

I've been working across the design industry for over 10 years, mostly at the early stages — product strategy, wireframing, and setting up the fundamental experience while it's still cheap to change. The best part of any project is the early stretch where the fundamentals are still open — when a working prototype can still change what gets built.

Learn more about me
Salman Chaudhri

Teams I've worked with

ITC
Barclays
London Borough of Hackney
Harvest London
Smartlane
Vieweet
You're particularly good at mentoring: clear, actionable feedback that helps designers improve without feeling discouraged. Your decisions connect design work with the bigger product and business goals.
Ameer Designer, Create
You were always mindful of pulling the team out of pixel pushing. Taking a step back and thinking of the product through low-fidelity wireframes and experimentation.
Haris Former colleague
Salman's expertise in product development ensured that our vision for the sports score app was well-executed. He has a strong grasp of structured processes while keeping the flexibility to adapt to evolving project needs.
Uzair Collaborator, Kickd
You're great at grasping complex, abstract ideas and finding the right fit — balancing our requirements with a smooth user experience, and keeping the project on track.
Fatima Creative Director, Zamana Studio

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