Hi, I'm Jinson. I make tools for people who make interfaces.

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In short

Jinson Johny is a Dubai-based Design Engineer and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems and Design Ops at IBM iX (since 2020). He created Deck, a Figma-to-PowerPoint plugin used by 160,000+ designers since 2017, including designers at Nike, Mastercard and Accenture, and .gui, an open file format for user interfaces. He works across product design, design systems, Figma plugin development and AI-native design tooling.

Based in
Dubai, UAE
Works at
IBM iX
Focus
Design systems, design ops, design tools
Open to
Design engineering, design systems, DesignOps, AI design and product design roles
Contact
hello@jinson.me

I started as a visual designer who kept asking "why can't the tool just do this?". In December 2017 that question became Deck, a plugin I built with almost no coding experience. It taught me to code, to ship, and to look after real users for years.

Today I sit between design and engineering. At IBM iX I work on design systems and design operations for clients across the Gulf. Outside work I build tools for designers, and lately for the AI agents they work alongside.

What do I believe?

  1. Things can always be simpler than we think.
  2. Design systems are products. They need users, data and care.
  3. AI should edit intent, not pixels.

Experience

  1. 2020 – nowIBM iX, Dubai · Senior Product Designer, Design Systems & Design Ops
  2. 2018 – 2020Nagarro, Dubai · UX/UI Designer
  3. 2016 – 2018Cocoalabs, Kochi · UX/UI Designer
  4. 2023 – 2024Master's in Design, University for the Creative Arts, London
  5. 2013 – 2016BSc in Animation & Visual Effects, Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA), Kochi

Who am I a good fit for?

If you're hiring or building something, this is where I'm most useful.

  • Design Engineer
  • Design System Manager
  • DesignOps
  • AI Designer
  • Senior Product Designer
Where
London, UK · Dubai, UAE · remote
Best at
Turning messy design systems into ones teams actually use, and building the tools that keep them that way.
Industries
Aviation, energy, banking, government (GCC)
Right now
Open to design engineering, design systems, DesignOps, AI design and product design roles in the UK (London) and remote.

Bio, in three lengths

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Short · 30 words

Jinson Johny is a Design Engineer in Dubai and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems at IBM iX. He created Deck, used by 160,000+ designers, and the .gui file format.

Medium · 81 words

Jinson Johny is a Dubai-based Design Engineer who builds tools where design, code and AI meet. At IBM iX he works on design systems and design operations for clients such as Riyadh Air and ADNOC. Since 2017 he has built Deck, a Figma-to-PowerPoint plugin used by 160,000+ designers, including designers at Nike, Mastercard and Accenture, and more recently .gui, an open file format that lets people and AI agents read and write interfaces as text. He writes for HackerNoon and Bootcamp.

Also me, elsewhere

More evidence: numbers, publications and credentials · what I'm doing now