--- title: "Resume: Jinson Johny, Design Engineer" description: "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." url: https://jinson.me/resume markdown: https://jinson.me/resume.md type: ProfilePage author: Jinson Johny (https://jinson.me/#person) updated: 2026-11-01 --- # Jinson Johny Design Engineer · Senior Product Designer, Design Systems & Design Ops, IBM iX Dubai, UAE · · [jinson.me](https://jinson.me) · [linkedin.com/in/jinsoncjohny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinsoncjohny) · [github.com/jinsoncjohny](https://github.com/jinsoncjohny) [Download PDF](https://jinson.me/jinson-johny-resume.pdf) · [resume.json](https://jinson.me/resume.json) ## In short 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. By [Jinson Johny](https://jinson.me/about.md) · Updated Nov 2026 ## Experience ### **Senior Product Designer, Design Systems & Design Ops**, IBM iX (IBM Studios Dubai) 2020 – present · Dubai, UAE - 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) Clients include ADNOC, Riyadh Air. ### **UX/UI Designer**, Nagarro 2018 – 2020 · Dubai, UAE ### **UX/UI Designer**, Cocoalabs 2016 – 2018 · Kochi, India ## Products ### **[Deck](https://jinson.me/products/deck.md)** · [deck.is](https://deck.is) since Dec 2017 Deck is a Figma plugin by Jinson Johny that converts design frames into editable PowerPoint (PPTX) files with real text, shapes and images. He started it in December 2017 as a Sketch plugin; it has since been installed by 160,000+ designers and converted more than one million presentations. Designers at Accenture, Mastercard, Nike, Amazon, Apple and SAP have used it. ### **[.gui](https://jinson.me/products/dotgui.md)** · [dotgui.org](https://dotgui.org) since May 2026 .gui (dotgui) is an open file format for user interfaces, created by Jinson Johny in 2026. The way SVG made graphics text, .gui makes interfaces text: a portable package that designers, developers and AI agents can all read, write, diff and render. ### **[Blocks](https://jinson.me/products/block.md)** · [blocks.is](https://blocks.is) since Jan 2026 Blocks is a Figma plugin by Jinson Johny that makes design-system components AI ready. It ships with two skills for Figma's agent: block-create sets up a component or a whole screen so its data, totals and states follow the content, and block-update fills copies with new content from a plain request. The plugin shows a heat map of what AI can change in each component and logs every change. He started it in January 2026 as Block, a logic layer for Figma components; version 0.2.0 (November 2026) renamed it Blocks and added the agent skills. ### **[Playback](https://jinson.me/products/playback.md)** · [playback.design](https://playback.design) since Dec 2025 Figma Playback is a web app by Jinson Johny that turns a Figma file's version history, comments and contributors into a “Spotify Wrapped”-style year in review: eight interactive slides, each pairing a mini-game with a data insight. Born out of the #FigmaMakeathon, it launched in December 2025 at playback.design and on Product Hunt. It reads only metadata through the official Figma API, in the browser, and saves nothing to a server. ## Writing - [AI Is Changing How We Ideate, Design, and Build User Interfaces](https://hackernoon.com/ai-is-changing-how-we-ideate-design-and-build-user-interfaces) · HackerNoon, Aug 2026 - [We're still figuring out what an AI-native UI artifact looks like](https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/were-still-figuring-out-what-an-ai-native-ui-artifact-looks-like-7b763bbf34f5) · Bootcamp, Jul 2026 - [Design Engineering is the New Product Design](https://hackernoon.com/design-engineering-is-the-new-product-design) · HackerNoon, Jun 2026 - [Making Figma Components Smart: Why Design Systems Need a "Logic Layer"](https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/making-figma-components-functional-why-design-systems-need-a-logic-layer-933837fa6e17) · Bootcamp, Jan 2026 - [Your Year in Pixels: Get your Figma Playback for 2025](https://medium.com/@jinsoncjohny/your-year-in-pixels-get-your-figma-playback-for-2025-b4e0e37dbc16) · Medium, Dec 2025 - [Color formula: A practical framework for UI designers and developers working with dynamic colors](https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/color-formula-a-practical-framework-for-ui-designers-and-developers-working-with-dynamic-colors-f1e6b2ef41d2) · Bootcamp, Jul 2025 - [Introducing Deck 1.0 — The Sketch to PowerPoint converter](https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/introducing-deck-1-0-for-sketch-a-plugin-to-convert-your-designs-into-editable-ppts-dea463294f86) · Sketch App Sources, Jun 2020 - [Meet Compiler for Sketch, the sassy plugin to manage your exports](https://medium.com/barreldotim/meet-compiler-for-sketch-the-sassy-plugin-to-manage-your-exports-aa982519a898) · Barrel, Apr 2019 - [Time to design presentations right in Sketch and convert them to .ppt or .key](https://medium.com/barreldotim/time-to-design-presentations-right-in-sketch-and-convert-it-to-a-ppt-bbafdf80ac40) · Barrel, Jan 2018 ## Education & credentials - Master's in Design, University for the Creative Arts, London, UK · 2023–2024 - BSc in Animation & Visual Effects, Zee Institute of Creative Art (ZICA), Kochi, India · 2013–2016 - Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification · Nielsen Norman Group, 2024 - Adobe Certified Associate — Photoshop · Adobe, 2014 - IBM Generative & Agentic AI Expert – Designer · IBM, 2026 - IBM Garage Essentials · IBM, 2023 - Design & User Experience (D\&UX) Essentials · IBM, 2021 - Enterprise Design Thinking – Team Essentials for AI · IBM, 2021 - Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner · IBM, 2021 ## Skills 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 --- **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)