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title: "About Jinson Johny: Design Engineer and design systems lead in Dubai"
description: "Jinson Johny is a Design Engineer in Dubai and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems & Design Ops at IBM iX. Bio in three lengths, experience, education, and what he's a good fit for."
url: https://jinson.me/about
markdown: https://jinson.me/about.md
type: ProfilePage
author: Jinson Johny (https://jinson.me/#person)
updated: 2026-11-01
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# Hi, I'm Jinson. I make tools for people who make interfaces.

By [Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/about.md) · Updated Nov 2026

![Jinson Johny, in a grey sweatshirt against a plain light wall.](https://jinson.me/images/about/jinson-johny.webp)

## 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 – now · **IBM iX**, Dubai · Senior Product Designer, Design Systems & Design Ops
2. 2018 – 2020 · **Nagarro**, Dubai · UX/UI Designer
3. 2016 – 2018 · **Cocoalabs**, Kochi · UX/UI Designer
4. 2023 – 2024 · Master's in Design, University for the Creative Arts, London
5. 2013 – 2016 · BSc 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

For event pages, intros and articles. Copy whichever fits.

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

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinsoncjohny)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/jinsoncjohny)
- [X](https://x.com/jinsoncjohny)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@jinsoncjohny)
- [HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/u/jinsonjohny)
- [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/@jinsoncjohny)
- [Figma](https://www.figma.com/@jinson)
- [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/jinsoncjohny)
- [Behance](https://www.behance.net/JinsoncJohny)
- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/~jinsoncjohny)

More evidence: [numbers, publications and credentials](https://jinson.me/about/proof.md) · [what I'm doing now](https://jinson.me/now.md)

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**About the author.** Jinson Johny is a Dubai-based Design Engineer and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems and Design Ops at IBM iX. He is the creator of Deck (deck.is), a Figma-to-PowerPoint plugin used by 160,000+ designers since 2017, and .gui (dotgui.org), an open file format for user interfaces. Open to design engineering, design systems, DesignOps, AI design and product design roles in the UK (London) and remote. Contact: hello@jinson.me · [Open to work](https://jinson.me/hire.md) · [All pages](https://jinson.me/llms.txt)