6+ years designing and building the comb. What drives me doesn’t fit on a shelf.
At Ofofo, I automated what always hurt. The gap between Figma and code. One shared library, one source for the team, and the design finally held, 95% of the time.
The hard part was never the idea. It was watching it become something you didn’t quite mean.
The gap I’d made peace with finally closed. Now it’s just me and the idea.
The tools took the busywork. What they can’t touch is the judgment, the taste, the hundred quiet decisions that make a thing feel right.
That’s the work worth leading.
A few ideas, some mine, some from work, that I started with from a rough sketch to something real.
Designed and built Investu, a personal Telegram bot that screens 100+ Indian large-caps, the S&P 500, mutual funds, SIPs, and live IPOs every morning. Seven build phases, five free APIs, AI-powered news research with real URL validation, and zero cost per month.
Designed and built a gesture-controlled Tetris game from scratch. Hand tracking via webcam, 3D playfield with physics, a public anti-cheat leaderboard, and a full audio system. No keyboard required.
Built Ofofo’s component library solo: used Claude to scaffold Figma variants, converted designs to code with Claude Code, deployed a live docs site, and published @ofofo/components to npm.
Born from watching freelancers get blindsided by tax season. It tells you what to set aside per invoice, and quietly keeps your receipts in order for the year-end scramble. Still rough, already useful.
Helps Indian factory owners run operations from WhatsApp. Orders, production, dispatch, GST invoices, and automatic payment reminders, all flowing into Tally. Nothing new to learn, nothing replaced. Fully live in three weeks.
What I can’t say about myself, said by the people who were there.
Zabeeh designed UX for humans and machines. That changed the course of research at Ofofo. He took time to lead us in design but started delivering killer UX. We closed deals because of the designs he created. He took ownership of talking to customers, designing flows, assets, code and made the entire team design conscious. Every collateral and asset of Ofofo today are from him. Grounded and decorated team member that I dearly miss.
“According to all aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly because its body weight is not in the right proportion to its wingspan. But ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.”~ old folklore