Abdulla Alshaikh, Designer in London, United Kingdom
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Abdulla Alshaikh

Verified Expert  in Design

Designer

Location
London, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
March 15, 2017

Abdulla is an award-winning design and product management leader, an ambassador of circular design principles, and a concept-driven designer who operates at the intersection of art, design, technology, and culture. With more than ten years of industry experience, Abdulla has built agnostic experiences that bridge the gap between the physical and digital for some of the biggest brands in the world.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Experience and Innovation | GM

2019 - PRESENT
Mobily
  • Spearheaded a design-led approach for Mobily that resulted in us building an omnichannel digital ecosystem for more than ten million customers across B2C, B2B, and B2E.
  • Built new uniform experiences across products, services, systems, and spaces for internal and external customers by establishing a cohesive brand system, design system, and multi-language content guidelines.
  • Worked towards positioning Mobily as a global telco design leader, rolling out an award-winning solution that goes beyond telco and adjacent spaces such as fintech.
  • Collaborated in transforming the company digitally and improving its score in terms of digital maturity.
  • Increasing Mobily’s digital revenue from a few thousand SAR in 2019 to 2B SAR in 2021.
  • Designed and rolled out an OKR framework organization wide.
  • Built an internally centralized multidisciplinary design studio, research lab, and product management team while adopting the SAFE framework.
Technologies: ResearchOps, DevOps, DesignOps

Senior Advisor | Customer Experience

2016 - PRESENT
Toptal
  • Designed multiple custom agnostic experiences (both physical and digital) for brands across Europe and the Middle East for GM Georgia as their Chief Experience Officer.
  • Built an invoicing app for the Middle East that got acquired by Amazon.
  • Engaged as the interim creative and product management leader at a strategic, tactical, and operational level for various brands across Europe and the Middle East to help set up, operate, and optimize their digital capabilities and teams.
  • Worked as an interim creative and product management leader at a strategic, tactical, and operational level for various brands across Europe and the Middle East to help set up, operate, and optimize their digital capabilities and teams.
  • Wrote and worked on the executive production of a traditional 2D animated fantasy feature film which is a commentary on our relationship with nature, in collaboration with a production studio that has worked on features for Netflix.
  • Built a recruitment AI assistant to streamline the sourcing and screening stages of the recruitment process that connects to preexisting HR workflows, including recruitment tools, social channels, and career sites.
  • Created an implementation-ready modern escrow service that is currently in pre-launch.
Technologies: Filmmaking, DesignOps, ResearchOps, DevOps

Design Director (Middle East)

2018 - 2019
Deloitte Digital | MENA
  • Led the establishment of Deloitte Digital’s delivery studio in both the UAE and KSA.
  • Served as a design director and regional design ambassador, carrying out client advisory for digital disruption and transformation.
  • Worked with the global and local Deloitte digital and technology teams to develop end-to-end, large-scale, cutting-edge digital-physical experiences, from wearables and VR to spatial design for both the public and private sectors.
  • Carried out complex multi-level and multi-modal service design projects.
  • Supported clients looking to be design-led by carrying out design thinking workshops and PI planning events with internal and external stakeholders while also applying HCD across their products, services, systems, and spaces.
Technologies: DevOps, DesignOps, ResearchOps

Chief Design Officer

2010 - 2016
GM
  • Built and led a full-stack design and research team of 40 across two international offices for a full-service digital agency in Norway and Stockholm until we exited the studio to a large production studio.
  • Received over 100 digital design awards from Awwwards, Webbys, FWA, and CSS Design Awards.
  • Made beautiful and elegant products using cutting-edge technologies for iOS, Android, web, installations, SmartWatches, AR, VR, and TV.
  • Created apps that reached the top spot in their respective App Store and Google Play categories.
  • Built beautiful, cohesive, platform-agnostic experiences for products, services, systems, and spaces leveraging sensory design for world-leading brands like Microsoft and Coca-Cola.
Technologies: DevOps, ResearchOps, DesignOps
JANUARY 2020 - PRESENT

CPM | Certified Product Manager

AIPMM

APRIL 2019 - PRESENT

UX Master Certification

Nielsen Norman Group

APRIL 2019 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

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