Saud Musaddiq Open to product design roles

Designing SaaS and AI products
people understand, trust, and return to.

7+ years building B2B and B2C products across research, UX strategy, and design systems,
with hands-on work in Generative AI and Agentic AI.

Previously worked with

Saud Musaddiq

I design the calm inside complex products, turning business logic into experiences that feel clear, useful, and human.

  • Partnered with founders and teams to turn rough ideas into usable products.
  • Improved existing products through clearer structure, hierarchy, and usability.
  • Built design systems that made products easier to scale, maintain, and improve over time.
7+ years experience
  • Designing B2B and consumer products end to end, from discovery to launch.
50+ projects shipped
  • From focused flow improvements to complete products across web, mobile, and internal tools.
2M+ users reached
  • Combined reach across products I’ve helped design and ship.
+40% task completion
  • Measured before and after redesigning core product flows.
faster handoff
  • After teams adopted tokens, components, and shared patterns.
How I work

A clear path from
product thinking to product impact.

01 / 06

Align Before Design

Before design begins, I align stakeholders on the problem, users, priorities, constraints, and success criteria.

Product Alignment Toolkit
  • Notion
  • FigJam
  • Claude
  • GPT

I consolidate research, requirements, and stakeholder input into a decision-ready foundation. Connected tools preserve evidence, surface conflicts, and maintain alignment as the product evolves.

Research & Synthesize

I examine user behavior, business context, market signals, and product evidence to separate reliable patterns from noise.

Research & Synthesis Toolkit
  • GPT Deep Research
  • Claude
  • FigJam
  • Perplexity

I combine interviews, product analytics, competitive intelligence, and market research in a traceable evidence base. AI accelerates analysis while product judgment determines what shapes direction.

Shape the System

I translate validated insights into clear journeys, roles, permissions, states, and the product rules that govern them.

Experience Architecture Toolkit
  • FigJam
  • Figma
  • Claude
  • GPT
  • MCPs

I map information structures, interaction logic, and dependencies, including AI behavior, human oversight, and failure recovery, so teams can evaluate the system before implementation.

Design & Prototype

I translate product logic into coherent interface systems, reusable patterns, and prototypes that make complex interactions clear and testable.

Design & Prototyping Toolkit
  • Figma
  • Figma Make
  • Lovable
  • Claude Code

I use high-fidelity prototypes and functional builds to evaluate hierarchy, interaction behavior, AI responses, and critical workflows, so teams can judge the experience before committing to implementation.

Build & Validate

I partner with engineering to translate design intent into robust, accessible experiences across devices, states, and real-world conditions.

Implementation & Validation Toolkit
  • Cursor
  • Figma
  • Claude Code
  • Codex

I evaluate working builds for responsive behavior, accessibility, interaction quality, edge-case coverage, and design fidelity, resolving implementation gaps with engineering before release.

Ship & Evolve

I establish success criteria before launch, monitor real-world product performance, and translate evidence into prioritized improvements.

Product Evolution Toolkit
  • Vercel
  • Analytics
  • Claude Code
  • Codex

I evaluate adoption, completion, retention, feedback, and product quality to identify meaningful patterns, validate outcomes against the original success criteria, and prioritize the next cycle of improvement.

  • Card rowsLayout

    A row reads as even only if the blocks above the text match in height.

  • Nav statesInteraction

    Mark the section the reader is in, not the link under their cursor.

  • Cover cropsImagery

    Contain letterboxes, cover crops. Decide per image, never per grid.

  • Section rhythmSpacing

    Pad sections on one side only and let the footer close the page.

  • The 12px floorTypography

    Nothing below 12px. If it has to shrink further, it is not needed.

Experience

A career spanning zero-to-one products, AI-powered experiences, complex redesigns, and scalable design systems.

Design Lead

Sparkleo · May 2026 – Present

Set design direction across client products, and own the system, standards, and reviews that keep delivery consistent.

Senior Product Designer

Veroke · Sep 2025 – Mar 2026

Designed enterprise and B2B platforms end to end, turning dense operational workflows into interfaces teams run daily.

Senior Product Designer

Beta Codes · Sep 2023 – Mar 2025

Owned product design from discovery to shipped UI across web and mobile builds, pairing with engineering through delivery.

Product Designer

Sparkleo · Sep 2021 – Aug 2023

Shipped 0→1 products and redesigns with founding teams, covering research, flows, interface, and the first design system.

UI/UX Designer

Exada LLC · Oct 2018 – Aug 2021

Where the craft started: UI and UX for web and internal tools, and the first systems thinking the later work is built on.