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    "name": "Jinson Johny",
    "label": "Design Engineer · Senior Product Designer — Design Systems & Design Ops",
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    "summary": "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.",
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      "name": "IBM iX (IBM Studios Dubai)",
      "position": "Senior Product Designer — Design Systems & Design Ops",
      "location": "Dubai, UAE",
      "startDate": "2020",
      "highlights": [
        "Design systems and design operations for enterprise clients across the GCC",
        "ADNOC: designed a turnaround and shutdown management app (user workshops, IA for 30+ modules, screens) that replaced email- and spreadsheet-based planning",
        "ADNOC: as Design System Manager, audited and extended the client's starter design system (modular table, page templates, gatekept library, design handbook) for a team of up to 10 designers",
        "Riyadh Air: started as product designer on the guest app, then took over and rebuilt the design system as Design System Manager (contribution model, design check-ins, review plugins, Figma variables and modes)",
        "Riyadh Air: making the design system AI-ready (templates, slots, markdown specs, AI review and audit skills) and contributing to coded components in Storybook",
        "Redesigned a banking app (visual design + design system)"
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    {
      "name": "Nagarro",
      "position": "UX/UI Designer",
      "location": "Dubai, UAE",
      "startDate": "2018",
      "endDate": "2020",
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    {
      "name": "Cocoalabs",
      "position": "UX/UI Designer",
      "location": "Kochi, India",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2018",
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      "institution": "University for the Creative Arts",
      "area": "Master's in Design",
      "location": "London, UK",
      "startDate": "2023",
      "endDate": "2024"
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      "institution": "Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA)",
      "area": "BSc in Animation & Visual Effects",
      "location": "Kochi, India",
      "startDate": "2013",
      "endDate": "2016"
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      "name": "Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification",
      "issuer": "Nielsen Norman Group",
      "date": "2024"
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    {
      "name": "Adobe Certified Associate — Photoshop",
      "issuer": "Adobe",
      "date": "2014"
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    {
      "name": "IBM Generative & Agentic AI Expert – Designer",
      "issuer": "IBM",
      "date": "2026"
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    {
      "name": "IBM Garage Essentials",
      "issuer": "IBM",
      "date": "2023"
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    {
      "name": "Design & User Experience (D&UX) Essentials",
      "issuer": "IBM",
      "date": "2021"
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      "name": "Enterprise Design Thinking – Team Essentials for AI",
      "issuer": "IBM",
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      "date": "2021"
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      "description": "Figma to fully editable PowerPoint — create presentations inside your design tool.",
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      "name": ".gui",
      "url": "https://dotgui.org",
      "description": "An open file format for user interfaces — the way SVG made graphics text, .gui makes interfaces text.",
      "startDate": "2026-05"
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      "name": "Blocks",
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      "description": "Make your Figma components AI ready — a Figma plugin and two skills for Figma's agent.",
      "startDate": "2026-01"
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      "name": "Playback",
      "url": "https://playback.design",
      "description": "A \"Spotify Wrapped\" for your Figma files.",
      "startDate": "2025-12"
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      "name": "Design Engineering is the New Product Design",
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      "releaseDate": "2026-06-04",
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      "name": "We're still figuring out what an AI-native UI artifact looks like",
      "publisher": "Bootcamp",
      "releaseDate": "2026-07-30",
      "url": "https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/were-still-figuring-out-what-an-ai-native-ui-artifact-looks-like-7b763bbf34f5"
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      "name": "AI Is Changing How We Ideate, Design, and Build User Interfaces",
      "publisher": "HackerNoon",
      "releaseDate": "2026-08-04",
      "url": "https://hackernoon.com/ai-is-changing-how-we-ideate-design-and-build-user-interfaces"
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    {
      "name": "Making Figma Components Smart: Why Design Systems Need a \"Logic Layer\"",
      "publisher": "Bootcamp",
      "releaseDate": "2026-01-13",
      "url": "https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/making-figma-components-functional-why-design-systems-need-a-logic-layer-933837fa6e17"
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    {
      "name": "Your Year in Pixels: Get your Figma Playback for 2025",
      "publisher": "Medium",
      "releaseDate": "2025-12-29",
      "url": "https://medium.com/@jinsoncjohny/your-year-in-pixels-get-your-figma-playback-for-2025-b4e0e37dbc16"
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      "name": "Color formula: A practical framework for UI designers and developers working with dynamic colors",
      "publisher": "Bootcamp",
      "releaseDate": "2025-07-16",
      "url": "https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/color-formula-a-practical-framework-for-ui-designers-and-developers-working-with-dynamic-colors-f1e6b2ef41d2"
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      "name": "Introducing Deck 1.0 — The Sketch to PowerPoint converter",
      "publisher": "Sketch App Sources",
      "releaseDate": "2020-06-03",
      "url": "https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/introducing-deck-1-0-for-sketch-a-plugin-to-convert-your-designs-into-editable-ppts-dea463294f86"
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    {
      "name": "Meet Compiler for Sketch, the sassy plugin to manage your exports",
      "publisher": "Barrel",
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      "name": "Time to design presentations right in Sketch and convert them to .ppt or .key",
      "publisher": "Barrel",
      "releaseDate": "2018-01-22",
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