About

Salam, I'm Yusuf — a product designer and builder. I love untangling complexity to create clarity, and increasingly I don't just design the solution, I build it.

For over a decade I've designed digital products — at eBay and Shopify in Berlin, at Tajawal in Dubai, and for companies across e-commerce, fintech and travel. I shipped native apps, Progressive Web Apps, and the occasional App Store rating turnaround.

Today I'm Associate Director of Design & UX Strategy at Contango, a consulting firm in Abu Dhabi, where I lead design and strategy for complex digital and AI-driven platforms — making sure they solve real problems, align the people who own them, and actually get used. A lot of that work is about decisions, not pixels: framing the right problem, choosing what to build, and designing AI features around how people really work.

On the side, I build my own products. The one I care most about is Rawi — an iOS app that identifies a Quranic ayah from live recitation, like Shazam for the Quran. I designed it, wrote the Swift, and trained the machine-learning models. I grew up reciting the Quran without always knowing which ayah I was hearing; Rawi closes that gap.

I'm a Muslim with Turkish roots, and a lot of what I make is shaped by that — building things with care, and with purpose behind them. I recently moved my family to Abu Dhabi. Away from the screen, you'll find me doing martial arts or playing basketball.

Get in touch

Email me at info@yusufalgan.com, or find me on LinkedIn and GitHub.