Karim Mansour
Product designer & creative technologist
( 01 ) — Introduction
Based inCasablanca, MA
Experience10 years
CurrentlyIndependent
LanguagesAR · FR · EN
I design calm, legible products for teams who ship complicated things: payments, transport, energy and the news.
For ten years I have helped product teams find the one sentence their product should say, then removed everything that contradicts it. I work across research, interface design, design systems and the occasional line of front-end code.
I design in Arabic and French as often as in English, so every system I build works in both directions from the first sketch.
( 02 ) — Credential
Pick me up. Swing me.
An access badge on a strap. Drag it and let go, or just move your pointer over it. It is also a business card: save my details straight to your phone.
( 03 ) — Selected work
Work, mostly quiet.
( 04 ) — Toolkit
What I bring to the table.
Scroll and the wheel turns. Every discipline I practise, in roughly the order clients ask for them.
Figma · Framer · Rive · After Effects · React · Notion
- 01Product design
- 02Design systems
- 03Prototyping
- 04Arabic interfaces
- 05Motion
- 06Research
- 07Front-end
- 08Workshops
( 05 ) — Experience
Ten years, five rooms.
2024 — Now
Independent product designer
Studio Mansour
Product and design-system work for fintech, mobility and editorial teams, usually embedded for three to six months.
Casablanca
2021 — 2024
Design systems lead
Tarik Mobility
Built and ran a 40-component system across app, web and bus-stop displays. Grew the team from two to seven.
Rabat
2018 — 2021
Senior product designer
Shabaka Grid
Led the redesign of the live grid dashboard used by 300 operators, from research to rollout.
Casablanca
2016 — 2018
Product designer
Fieldwork Rabat
Shipped apps and sites for publishers and cultural institutions. Learned that the brief is a first draft.
Rabat
2015
Design intern
Atelier Zellige
Typography, print and a lot of mint tea. Still the best crash course I ever took.
Fès
10+
Years in product27+
Products shipped6+
Design systems built1.4M
People using my work( 06 ) — Kind words
People I have shipped with.
The cards stack as you scroll.
Karim can make a room of stakeholders agree by showing them something simpler than what they asked for.
Youssef AlamiVP Product, Dinar PayHe designed our brand as if he were going to run the shop himself. Sales doubled; my inbox halved.
Salma BennaniFounder, Fakhar StudioThe system Karim left behind is still the thing new hires praise first. That is the whole review.
Mehdi TaziHead of Design, Tarik( 07 ) — Journal