Galal Helany

Designing Complex
Digital Products
That Scale

For anyone
Recruiters
Product Designers
Product Managers
Engineers

Hello there
I’m a designer creating beautiful,
user-friendly digital experiences that truly help people every day

I’m a product designer with 6 years of experience delivering impactful designs for brands, products, and teams of all sizes

I turn strategy into
pixels, creating high-quality, user-focused experiences through careful, systems-driven design

I bring end-to-end product expertise, partnering from vision and strategy to discovery and delivery to create meaningful impact

tech-savvy designer with coding skills Understands full development workflow Communicates seamlessly with you Builds functional, scalable solutions

Welthungerhilfe RAK Awards for Educational Excellence Silver Stone Laffah Restaurants RAK Awards for Educational Excellence Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation Arab regional organization ABH Architectural Builders Hardware Saudi Energy Marwan Elkhatib Consultancy Bold Invest SIX Group

Selected projects

Practical

Thoughtful

Elegant

Crafted with Care

These are the guiding values I apply to every project. I focus on creating designs that address real needs with clarity and beauty, always aiming for excellence. I enjoy working closely with teams to achieve outcomes greater than individual efforts. My approach combines big-picture thinking, rapid execution, and meticulous attention to detail, while ensuring sustainable, long-term impact. I am committed to continuous growth, delivering work to the highest standards, and connecting every project to a larger purpose of making the world better. I also ensure all work aligns with Islamic principles, avoiding conflicts with my faith while maintaining professionalism.

Different Markets.
Shared Problems.

Syria
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Türkiye
Sweden
Czechia
United States
Canada
Germany

ICS / Innovation Consulting & Solutions

Product Designer

Designed end-to-end web and mobile experiences, translating business requirements into intuitive B2B products while collaborating with product managers and developers to ensure seamless delivery.

Digital Wink LTD

UI / UX Designer

Led the redesign of enterprise and government platforms for Saudi Business Machines (SBM). Designed scalable, user-centered experiences, streamlined complex workflows, and improved design systems and developer handoff to accelerate product delivery.

Variin

Product Designer

Delivered end-to-end UX/UI design by defining requirements, creating prototypes, conducting research and testing, maintaining design systems, ensuring accessibility, and collaborating with teams to align solutions with business goals and enhance usability.

Larsa

Product Designer

Skilled in user research, UX/UI and visual design, data-driven design, design system management, collaboration, and providing leadership and mentorship.

Data Masher

UI / UX Designer

user-centered design with expertise in intuitive interfaces, prototyping, wireframing, and design systems, skilled in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma, collaborative, problem-solving, and committed to continuous learning..

Workato

UX Designer

Design end-to-end interactive systems—from flows, prototypes, and real-time UIs to design systems—collaborating with PMs, engineers, and researchers to ensure usability, performance, scalability, and high-quality user experiences.

Digital Upgrade ME

UI / UX Designer

Collaborated with PMs and developers to design user-friendly interfaces across apps, websites, and software, conducting research to tailor designs that align with user needs and business objectives while enhancing overall experience.

Aktarr

UI / UX Designer

Developed concepts and designs for platform website and application

Agenda

Designer

Web Designer / Digital Designer / Digital Marketing

What I Bring to the Product

End-to-End Product Design

  • Discovery → delivery
  • Research, strategy & UX flows
  • Interaction design & high-fidelity UI
  • Prototyping, validation & handoff

Product & Systems Thinking

  • User needs × business goals
  • Complex workflows and product logic
  • Scalable patterns & structures
  • Decisions beyond individual screens

Complex UX, Made Clear

  • Information-heavy products
  • Multi-role & permission-based UX
  • Complex B2B/B2C workflows
  • Clarity without losing capability

Design Systems & Scalability

  • Components, variants & tokens
  • Reusable product patterns
  • Cross-platform consistency
  • Design-to-development alignment

Visual Design Expertise

  • 10+ years of visual craft
  • Typography, hierarchy & composition
  • Color, branding & visual storytelling
  • Clarity through strong visual systems

Design × Frontend

  • Responsive design behavior
  • HTML, CSS Tailwind JavaScript React Next.js TypeScript
  • Component-based thinking
  • Designing with feasibility in mind

Collaboration & Delivery

  • Product × design × engineering
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Developer-ready handoff
  • From decisions to shipped product

Before We Work Together

What kind of opportunities are you looking for?

I’m primarily interested in Senior Product Designer and Senior UX/UI Designer roles, particularly with teams building SaaS, enterprise, B2B/B2C, and complex digital products. I’m especially drawn to products where design can simplify complexity and influence how the product evolves—not just how it looks.

When can you start?

I’m currently open to new opportunities and can start immediately for the right role or project.

What types of products do you enjoy working on most?

I enjoy products with real complexity: multi-role platforms, SaaS products, dashboards, enterprise systems, operational tools, and experiences with dense workflows or information. The more there is to understand, structure, and simplify, the more interesting the design problem becomes.

What does working with you actually look like?

I like to be involved beyond the Figma file. I work closely with product managers, engineers, stakeholders, and users—from understanding the problem and shaping flows to validating decisions, handling edge cases, and supporting implementation.

Do you only design UI, or do you work on product strategy and UX too?

I work across the product lifecycle. Depending on the project, that can include discovery, research, UX strategy, information architecture, user flows, interaction design, UI, prototyping, testing, design systems, and developer handoff.

How do you work with developers?

Closely and early. My frontend background helps me understand responsive behavior, implementation constraints, component-based interfaces, and the realities behind production UI. I prefer discussing feasibility and edge cases during design rather than discovering problems after handoff.

Do you also work with frontend development?

Yes. I have hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with an understanding of modern frontend workflows and technologies such as React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS. My primary focus remains product design, but the technical background helps me design more realistically and communicate better with engineering teams.

How do you use AI in your design process?

I use AI as part of the workflow rather than as a substitute for design thinking. It can accelerate research synthesis, exploration, content and documentation, prototyping, and development—but product decisions still need to be grounded in users, context, constraints, and judgment.

I’m Galal Helany, a Senior Product Designer and UX/UI Designer from Syria with 6+ years of specialized experience in Product Design and UX/UI, alongside more than 10 years of experience in visual design and a strong background in front-end development. I first discovered computers at the age of 9 and became fascinated by design and curious about how user interfaces are created. That curiosity grew into a lifelong passion for building digital experiences and bridging the gap between design and development. I create interfaces that are visually engaging, functional, scalable, and focused on the people who use them. Branding and visual identity remain supporting strengths in my work, helping me create cohesive digital experiences that resonate with audiences and deliver meaningful results.

Your turn. Tell me what you’re building.

Let’s talk

by the end of September

available for a new opportunity

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