--- title: "Jinson Johny: Design Engineer in Dubai, creator of Deck and .gui" description: "Jinson Johny is a Design Engineer in Dubai and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems at IBM iX. He created Deck (160k+ designers) and .gui, an open UI file format." url: https://jinson.me/ markdown: https://jinson.me/index.md type: ProfilePage author: Jinson Johny (https://jinson.me/#person) updated: 2026-11-01 --- # Jinson Johny I'm a Design Engineer in Dubai. At [IBM iX](https://www.ibm.com/consulting/ibmix) I set up design systems and the ways of working around them. On the side, I build tools for designers, starting with [Deck](https://jinson.me/products/deck.md), now used by 160,000+ designers, at companies like Nike, Mastercard and Accenture. Now: Riyadh Air for IBM iX by day, .gui and Blocks by night. [Deck](https://jinson.me/products/deck.md) is used by designers at ![Jinson Johny presenting at the Friends of Figma Dubai Figma Make showcase, holding a microphone behind a laptop.](https://jinson.me/images/about/jinson-johny-makeathon.webp) Friends of Figma Dubai, Oct 2025 ## Work Client work at IBM iX, Dubai · 2020–now Aviation · 2024–now ### [Riyadh Air](https://jinson.me/work/riyadh-air.md) Design System Manager Started on screens, took over the design system, and rebuilt it from December 2024 with a contribution model and automated reviews. Now making it AI-ready, and contributing to the coded components in Storybook. ![An open copy of the ADNOC design handbook, showing wireflow and mobile-screen pages.](https://jinson.me/images/work/adnoc-design-system-cover.webp) Energy · 2023–2024 ### [ADNOC (Design system)](https://jinson.me/work/adnoc-design-system.md) Design System Manager Audited a starter design system built for HR tools, then extended it for a data-heavy turnaround app with a modular table, page templates, a gatekept library and a design handbook. ![Screens from the ADNOC turnaround app laid out on a table around a tablet: dashboards, tables and charts.](https://jinson.me/images/work/adnoc-cover.webp) Energy · 2023–2024 ### [ADNOC (Product)](https://jinson.me/work/adnoc.md) Product Designer Designed an app that moves oil and gas turnaround planning off email and spreadsheets, from user workshops and IA for 30+ modules to the screens. ## Side projects Tools for designers, since 2017 ![Deck's plugin window in Figma.](https://jinson.me/images/products/deck-demo-poster.webp) Deck · since 2017 ### [Figma frames to fully editable PowerPoint](https://jinson.me/products/deck.md) I got tired of rebuilding my slides in PowerPoint. Designers make great slides in design tools, then lose hours rebuilding them because clients need an editable file. So I built **Deck**: select frames in Figma, get a real PowerPoint with editable text and shapes. - **Designers:** 160k - **Presentations:** 1M+ ![An abstract illustration of .gui: an interface card turns into structured markup, then into a layout any tool can read.](https://jinson.me/images/products/dotgui-abstract.webp) .gui · since 2026Experimental ### [The interface, finally a file](https://jinson.me/products/dotgui.md) Graphics have SVG. Why don’t interfaces have an open, public format? Interfaces live inside proprietary design files or get flattened into screenshots. So I started **.gui**: an open file format that people, tools and AI agents can all read, write, diff and render. - **Screens on gui.farm:** 185+ - **Licence:** MIT ![Blocks' heat map on a Cart component: each part coloured by what AI can change, with counts in a side panel.](https://jinson.me/images/products/blocks-heatmap.webp) Blocks · nowBeta ### [Make your Figma components AI ready](https://jinson.me/products/block.md) Why can’t AI fill my components with real data, and get the totals right? **Blocks** makes Figma components AI ready. Two skills for Figma's agent set a component up and fill it from a plain request, so totals, counts and states follow the content. The plugin shows a heat map of what AI can change. ![Figma Playback's year-in-review screen.](https://jinson.me/images/products/playback.webp) Playback · Dec 2025 ### [A “Spotify Wrapped” for your Figma files](https://jinson.me/products/playback.md) Born out of the #FigmaMakeathon, **Figma Playback** turns a Figma file's version history, comments and contributors into a “Spotify Wrapped”-style year in review. ## Writing and talks [All writing](https://jinson.me/writing.md) - [Oct 2026 · Teaching AI to understand design systems · Friends of Figma Dubai Show & Tell, Dubai · Talk](https://friends.figma.com/events/details/figma-dubai-presents-figma-design-agent-level-up-your-design-workflow/) - [Aug 2026 · AI is changing how we ideate, design, and build UIs · HackerNoon](https://jinson.me/writing/ai-changing-ui-design.md) - [Jul 2026 · We're still figuring out what an AI-native UI artifact looks like · Bootcamp](https://jinson.me/writing/ai-native-ui-artifact.md) - [Jun 2026 · Design engineering is the new product design · HackerNoon](https://jinson.me/writing/design-engineering-new-product-design.md) - [Jan 2026 · Why design systems need a "logic layer" · Bootcamp](https://jinson.me/writing/figma-components-logic-layer.md) [Everything since 2017 · A timeline of every launch, role, article and talk.](https://jinson.me/timeline.md) --- **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)