# Jinson Johny

> 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.

Jinson Johny is a Dubai-based Design Engineer who builds tools where design, code and AI meet. Handle: @jinsoncjohny. Contact: hello@jinson.me.

## Open to work
- Open to design engineering, design systems, DesignOps, AI design and product design roles in the UK (London) and remote.
- Roles that fit: Design System Lead, Design System Manager, Design Systems Designer, Design Systems Engineer, Design Engineer, Design Technologist, UX Engineer, DesignOps Lead, AI Designer, AI Product Designer, Product Designer, Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
- Locations: 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.
- Expertise: Design systems, Design tokens, Component libraries, Design operations (DesignOps), Product design, Interaction design, Figma, Figma plugin development, Design tooling, AI-native design formats, Design-to-code, Vue / Nuxt, Rust / WebAssembly
- Details: https://jinson.me/hire.md

## Experience
- 2020–present: Senior Product Designer — Design Systems & Design Ops, IBM iX (IBM Studios Dubai) (Dubai, UAE)
- 2018–2020: UX/UI Designer, Nagarro (Dubai, UAE)
- 2016–2018: UX/UI Designer, Cocoalabs (Kochi, India)
- Design System Manager for Riyadh Air (Aviation), with IBM iX
- Design System Manager for ADNOC (Energy), with IBM iX
- Product Designer for ADNOC (Energy), with IBM iX

## Pages
- [Jinson Johny: Design Engineer in Dubai, creator of Deck and .gui](https://jinson.me/index.md): 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.
- [About Jinson Johny: Design Engineer and design systems lead in Dubai](https://jinson.me/about.md): 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.
- [Proof: numbers, publications, launches and credentials of Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/about/proof.md): Evidence for Jinson Johny's work: Deck's 160,000+ installs, articles in HackerNoon and Bootcamp, Product Hunt launches since 2018, open-source work on .gui, and certifications.
- [Hire Jinson Johny: design engineering, design systems, DesignOps and AI design roles (UK, remote)](https://jinson.me/hire.md): Jinson Johny is a Design Engineer and design systems specialist at IBM iX, open to Design Engineer, Design System Manager, DesignOps, AI Designer and Product Designer roles in the UK (London) and remote.
- [Now: what Jinson Johny is working on](https://jinson.me/now.md): What Jinson Johny, a Design Engineer in Dubai, is working on this month.
- [Resume: Jinson Johny, Design Engineer](https://jinson.me/resume.md): Résumé of Jinson Johny, Design Engineer in Dubai and Senior Product Designer for Design Systems & Design Ops at IBM iX: experience, products, writing, education and credentials.
- [Timeline: everything Jinson Johny has shipped since 2017](https://jinson.me/timeline.md): Every role, launch, product milestone, article and talk by Jinson Johny, a Design Engineer in Dubai, dated and linked, since 2016.

## Case studies
- [Work: case studies and products by Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/work.md): Client case studies from IBM iX in Dubai, and the design tools Jinson Johny has shipped since 2017: Deck, .gui, Blocks and Figma Playback.
- [ADNOC (Product) case study · Jinson Johny, IBM iX](https://jinson.me/work/adnoc.md): From January 2023 to July 2024, Jinson Johny designed ADNOC's turnaround and shutdown management app at IBM iX in Dubai: user workshops, information architecture across 30+ modules, wireframes, product screens and the team's design handbook.
- [ADNOC (Design system) case study · Jinson Johny, IBM iX](https://jinson.me/work/adnoc-design-system.md): At IBM iX in Dubai, Jinson Johny ran the design system for ADNOC's turnaround and shutdown management app in 2023–2024. He audited the starter system the client used for internal HR tools and extended it with a modular table, page templates, shared patterns, a gatekept library file and a design handbook.
- [Riyadh Air case study · Jinson Johny, IBM iX](https://jinson.me/work/riyadh-air.md): Jinson Johny joined Riyadh Air's app team at IBM iX in 2024 as a product designer, took over its design system, rebuilt it from December 2024 with a contribution model and automated reviews, and is now making it AI-ready while moving into design engineering.

## Products
- [Products by Jinson Johny: Deck, .gui, Blocks, Figma Playback](https://jinson.me/products.md): Design tools Jinson Johny has built and shipped since 2017, from Deck (Figma to PowerPoint, 160k designers) to .gui, an open file format for user interfaces.
- [Blocks: Make your Figma components AI ready, by Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/products/block.md): Blocks is a Figma plugin by Jinson Johny, with two skills for Figma's agent, that makes design-system components AI ready. AI fills them with real data, and totals, counts and states follow. Beta at blocks.is.
- [Deck: Figma frames to fully editable PowerPoint, by Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/products/deck.md): Deck is a Figma plugin by Jinson Johny that turns design frames into fully editable PowerPoint. Used by 160,000+ designers since 2017, with 1M+ presentations converted.
- [.gui: The interface, finally a file, by Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/products/dotgui.md): .gui (dotgui) is an open file format for user interfaces created by Jinson Johny, with a v1.0 spec, Rust/WebAssembly renderer, CLI, agent skills and the gui.farm library.
- [Playback: A “Spotify Wrapped” for your Figma files, by Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/products/playback.md): Figma Playback by Jinson Johny is a “Spotify Wrapped” for your Figma files. It turns a file's versions, comments and contributors into an interactive year in review. Started at Figma's

## Writing
- [Writing: Jinson Johny on design systems, design tools and AI](https://jinson.me/writing.md): Articles by Jinson Johny on AI-native UI formats, design systems, Figma plugins and dynamic colour, published in HackerNoon and on Medium (Bootcamp, Sketch App Sources, Barrel).
- [AI Is Changing How We Ideate, Design, and Build User Interfaces · HackerNoon · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/ai-changing-ui-design.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's HackerNoon article on how AI is changing the way interfaces are ideated, designed and built, and what a portable UI artifact needs.
- [We're still figuring out what an AI-native UI artifact looks like · Bootcamp · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/ai-native-ui-artifact.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's Bootcamp essay on why today's AI design tools disagree on the UI artifact (HTML, images, design files) and how .gui explores an AI-native one.
- [Color formula: A practical framework for UI designers and developers working with dynamic colors · Bootcamp · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/color-formula.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's Bootcamp article proposing Color Formula, a shared standard for picking dynamic colours from images by rule rather than hex value.
- [Meet Compiler for Sketch, the sassy plugin to manage your exports · Barrel · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/compiler-for-sketch.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's 2019 launch post for Compiler, a Sketch plugin for managing exports from a single interface.
- [Design Engineering is the New Product Design · HackerNoon · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/design-engineering-new-product-design.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's HackerNoon article arguing that design engineering is becoming central again as AI lowers the cost of building, and how his enterprise team moved designers into Storybook.
- [Time to design presentations right in Sketch and convert them to .ppt or .key · Barrel · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/design-presentations-in-sketch.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's first Medium post (2018), introducing Barrel Herd: convert a .sketch file into a PowerPoint deck with editable text. Deck grew out of it.
- [Making Figma Components Smart: Why Design Systems Need a "Logic Layer" · Bootcamp · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/figma-components-logic-layer.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's Bootcamp article on why Figma design systems need a logic layer, introducing Block: scripted logic and data for components.
- [Your Year in Pixels: Get your Figma Playback for 2025 · Medium · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/figma-playback-2025.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's launch post for Figma Playback, a Year-in-Review for Figma files built from version history, comments and contributors.
- [Introducing Deck 1.0 — The Sketch to PowerPoint converter · Sketch App Sources · Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/writing/introducing-deck-1-0.md): Summary of Jinson Johny's 2020 launch post for Deck 1.0, the Sketch plugin that converts artboards into editable PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides files.

## Optional
- [llms-full.txt](https://jinson.me/llms-full.txt): every page above as markdown, in one file
- [resume.json](https://jinson.me/resume.json): JSON Resume
- [person.jsonld](https://jinson.me/person.jsonld): schema.org Person (https://jinson.me/#person)
- [sitemap.xml](https://jinson.me/sitemap.xml)

Every page on jinson.me has a markdown twin at its path plus `.md` (the home page is /index.md). Writing summaries link to the original publications (HackerNoon, Medium), which are the canonical versions.