Mohamed Arafa, UI/UX Design Team Leader

Mohamed Arafa

UI/UX Design Team Leader

Abou Ghaly Motors

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Web Design
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

UI/UX Design Team Leader at Abou Ghaly Motors
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since July 2017

- Create, implement, and approve the final designs output.
- Liaise between the team and management in order to assure the proper design and taste.
- Allocate assignments to appropriately qualified designers.
- Ensure assignments are produced according to the agreed timescales.
- Update and implement corporate visual identity and guidelines.
- Design and implement layouts for websites.
- Design e-publications, advertisements for the web.
- Updates websites while maintaining look and feel.
- Present mock-ups for review and approval prior to publishing.
- Design in-house publications such as stationery, posters, flyers, business forms and applications.

Senior UI/UX Designer at Abou Ghaly Motors
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2016 to June 2017

- Work with internal online team, marketing team and external creative agencies to drive the look and feel of client sites.
- Ability to translate business requirements into intuitive user interfaces.
- Develop wireframes and design comps for new Web initiatives and implement them.
- Discussing website features and participating in final output.
- Converting technical and aesthetic website requirements into a sequence of wireframes, taking into account efficient user flow and smooth usability.
- Producing attractive design for the website in addition to producing attractive, logical layout for every webpage.
- Responsible for full front-end implementation that includes using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
- Handling cross browser compatibility issues.
- Customizing & Styling Web Applications and CMS to meet the Clients needs.
- Information Architecture.
- Turn PSD mock-ups into pixel perfect web pages across all major browsers.

Senior UI / UX Designer at Hindawi Publishing Corporation
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2013 to December 2015

- Experience in creating intuitive & inspiring designs for Web | Mobile | Print | UX | UI.

- Managing design direction of an external production vendor, providing & taking design feedback, coaching & oversight, to produce effective ads within established design standards.

- Flesh out & implement well thought-out designs, presentations & documentation for new advertising products while continuing to optimize existing ones.

- Researching & driving design based on advertising industry standards, processes and associated technology.

- Establishing creative vision & influencing strategic design direction while meeting business needs.

- Collaborative & pragmatic who’s all about solving visual design problems.

- Design e-publications, & advertisements for the web and print.

- Consulting with salespeople & external clients to help optimize media campaigns & proposals.

- Strong sense of aesthetics and design elements such as: color, balance and typography

- Update websites while maintaining look and feel.

- Possess a passion for internet standards and keep them in mind while designing.

- Good communication skills, strong attention to details, team work, time management, multi-tasking, & creativity.

- Design in-house publications such as stationery, business forms and applications.

- Experience in Adobe Creative suite.

- Experience in Wireframe Tools & Sketch.

- Knowledge of the .Net framework applications and Web 2.0.

- Experience with usability testing and user research.

- Knowledge of web accessibility.

- Working knowledge of PHP, ASPX, SEO, & Javascript.

- Print design (InDesign & Print production).

Senior UI Designer at doctoruna
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2014 to June 2014

#. Creating Website Pages.
#. Creating Mobile Application
#. Prints Design.
#. Ads Design.

Senior Web Designer at IT Value
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2013 to October 2013

#. Creating Website Pages.
#. Wope for Mobile App.
#. Prints Design.
#. Ads Design.
#. Wireframes & Prototype.

Senior Web Designer at Spot Layer
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2013 to April 2013

#. Creating Website Pages.
#. Creating Web Application Pages.
#. Prints Design.
#. Ads Design.
#. Wireframes & Prototype.

Senior Web Designer at QITNetwork
  • Egypt - Damietta
  • August 2010 to January 2013

#. Creating Website Pages.
#. Creating Web Application Pages.
#. Prints Design.

Web Designer at Fekra Soft
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2009 to July 2010

#. Creating Website Pages.
#. Creating Web Application Pages.
#. Prints Design.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Web Design
  • at KIT
  • January 2008

Learning Web Design

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Sohag University
  • July 2006

BSC of Commerce

Specialties & Skills

Graphic Design
Advertising
Responsive Web Design
Photoshop - CSS3 - HTML5 - Dreamweaver - Illustrator - InDesign- Ads - Bootstrap - Less - Responsive

Languages

English
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Web Design (Training)
Training Institute:
KIT
Date Attended:
May 2008

Hobbies

  • Football - Art - Swimming
    Championship pool