BILAL

PRODUCT DESIGNER
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I am a full-stack product designer based in Seattle, WA ⛰️

I help teams ship 📦 zero-to-one products. I have done this multiple times in my 11 years 👴🏻 of experience across startups⛺️ as well as small teams within bigger companies 🏢


Currently, building a new living room experience at

Bilal Mohammed

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Amazon
Freevee

Amazon
Freevee

Amazon
Freevee

Amazon
Academy

Flipkart

Blapp

revenue of $53M/mo and more than 65M MAUs

my recent big win at Amazon.. took the product to market in less than 4 months

been the first designer in 6 of my 8 gigs

In my 11 years of full-stack UX career, helped more than 8 startups go zero to one.

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2013

2024

Co-founded a UX studio

UX Designer

Two of the fastest-growing

startups in India

Designer,
Co-founder

Phase 1 → focussed on honing full-stack skills.

Phase 2 → learnt how to be a salesman for design

leveled up on interactive prototyping

Phase 3 → focussed on building cross-org relationships

led design charters involving

larger teams and ambiguous scope


✔️ Focus on leadership

✔️ Stronger as a researcher
✔️ Data-informed growth experiments


LEARN FROM USERS

FRAME THE

PROBLEM

MAKE BETS

FORM

ALIGNMENTS

MEASURE

SUCCESS

IMPLEMENT

  • A/B testing

  • Dogfooding

  • Voice of the customer (VOC)

  • hypothesis

  • user journey

  • visual design

  • primary, secondary research

  • user interviews

  • PR-FAQ

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My Process

My

Notes

Things I overheard

at work

  • Temporary solutions to temporary problems usually become permanent problems.

  • When designing, if you don’t feel the need to add 20% back, then you haven’t deleted enough.

  • The simplest solution already exists in our plain sight. We just have to remove all the over-engineering and over-solving.


    This can only happen when people with good judgement have conflicting ideas. Carving out the excess to uncover the insights that have been hidden in plain sight all along.

  • If you aren't embarrassed by your first version, you've probably launched too late.

  • You are not actually building.

    You are experimenting.

  • Don't pushback on ideas. 

    Pushback on assumptions

  • You get paid linearly for analyzing and solving problems.


    You get paid non-linearly for creating opportunities.

  • Stay stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details.

  • The distance between action and results shrinks with consistency.

  • A product’s complexity shouldn't be hidden under a layer of simplicity.

  • Every feature added is cognitive debt borrowed

    …unless the payback is an exponential curve of value delivered.

  • Most people optimize on things that should be deleted.

“Design systems hash out the easy problems, so products can focus on the hard ones”

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