About | Mohammed Zabeeh, Product Designer
Glad you came by
An idea I had to chase.
This site began as a question, and the answer was hiding in my name: zaBEEh. Once the bee surfaced, there was no unseeing it.
The shapes followed. Hexagons, not round bumblebee cartoons: a comb is architecture, the most structure for the least wax, and the metaphor had to be load-bearing too.
Ideas like this arrive when they please, and you chase them or you lose them. This one I chased as a story: a hive for the work, one bee flying the whole way through, drafted by hand in code. What better way to show a design journey than to fly you through one?
2The work
I don't know how to do just one thing.
Thoughts before doing, sketches before screens, and now design systems that ship as working code. The craft keeps changing, the reward never does.
6+ years across design and product, a studio of my own on the side, and still more left to learn than I have learned.
Days spent at Ofofo and Gupshup keep teaching me: designing for trust, earning a sceptic's yes, shipping work people depend on. The through line is simple: every decision starts with the person on the other side of the screen.
4What drives me
The simple things most people miss.
My inspiration is Masamune-san, the old Japanese swordsmith, who folded the same steel hundreds of times, burning away every impurity until the blade held nothing it did not need.
My fascination began young, with how swords are made: the patience, the discipline, the precision hiding in every part. That is what I love about designing anything: it asks for the very same things.
That patience is what I bring to my own work, and the reward is quiet: someone using what I made without ever having to think about it. I only wish the ideas came more often, the way the good ones always do, unannounced.
6The toolkit
From idea to everyday use.
Research that sometimes has to be smuggled into podcast gaps, because CISOs never sit for interviews.
Miro for the messy half, journeys and card sorts and everything that has not earned a frame yet. Figma for the half that has, with design systems built to be followed, by people and by AI.
Never in that order, though. The research comes back halfway through a flow, the system bends to what that flow actually needs, and a prototype in someone's hands sends me straight back to the board. Nothing quite answers the question until someone can open it and use it.
8Good work needs the right people
Let's build something.
The best work I have done came from people who cared about the thing itself, not the brief. Someone with a real problem, a real ambition, and enough trust to figure it out together.
I ask questions even when it gets uncomfortable, push back early when something feels off, and stay until it is right. If that sounds like your kind of team, the door is open.
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