Kareem Rasheed — Product Designer

I've been making things since before I had a word for it.

I'm a product designer and researcher from Jordan. I work across the full shape of a product — from the fuzzy early questions of what it is and who it's for, through to the fine detail of how it feels to use.

Arabic and English, natively.

Portrait of Kareem Rasheed

CAD and SketchUp at 7, the Adobe suite at 13. I went into Computer Science because I love creating, then found my way into design and never looked back. CS didn't leave though. It became a layer underneath everything: how I think, how I collaborate with engineers, how I read constraints.

What I do

I help shape, design, and position products from the ground up. The part I care about most is figuring out what makes a product genuinely distinct — not different on a feature list, but built around something competitors can't easily copy because it comes from a deeper read of the user and the problem.

Early on that's research, reframing, and making hard calls about what something actually is. Later it's systems, interactions, and making sure the detail work earns what the strategy promised.

01 Education
  1. Design and Visual Communication, B.Sc Jordan University of Science and Technology 2021 – 2026 · GPA 3.6 · Dean's Honor List ×2
  2. Animation and Game Design, B.A Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany Feb – Sep 2025 · Erasmus+ · German GPA 1.5
  3. Digitalization of Cultural Heritage TH Brandenburg, Germany 2023 – 2024 · DAAD Funded · German GPA 1.5

* Originally a Computer Science B.Sc (2019 – 2021, GPA 3.84, Dean's Honor List) at JUST, transferred into design. The CS didn't leave.

02 Experience
  1. Design Mentor & Private Tutor (Freelance) Independent 2022 – 2026
    • One-on-one mentorship across 5 years
    • 12+ students
    • 0 drop-offs
  2. DAAD — Digitalization of Cultural Heritage TH Brandenburg, Germany 2023 – 2024 · Team Lead · Researcher · 3D Technical Artist · UI/UX Designer
    • Led a team of 6
    • 1:1 LiDAR reconstruction of a 9-metre Roman structure (0.2 cm margin of error)
    • 2 co-authored academic papers
    • Presented across Jordan and Germany
03 Toolkit
Design & Prototyping

Figma · Illustrator · Photoshop · Affinity · v0 · Claude Design

3D & Game

Maya · AutoCAD · ZBrush · Substance Painter · Unreal Engine

Workflow & Dev

Cursor · VSCode · Git · Obsidian · Miro · FigJam · Claude Code

04 Skills
Design

Interaction Design · Information Architecture · Design Systems · Motion & Micro-interaction · Component-based Design · Prototyping · Wireframing · Accessibility (WCAG) · Data Visualization · Design Tokens

Research

User Research · Usability Testing · Scientific Writing · Photogrammetry · LiDAR Documentation

Soft

Systems Thinking · Stakeholder Communication · Cross-functional Collaboration · Translating Ambiguity into Structure · Visual Storytelling · Intercultural Communication · Ownership

Want to make something? Say hello.

hello@kareemrasheed.xyz