Salam Alaykoum,
I'm Aymen, a product designer based in Tangier, Morocco. I started teaching myself design at 14, learning by experimenting on my own before spending a year at Gobelins Paris to structure what I'd already built.
Today I'm 20, married, and based in Tangier, Morocco. Working fully remote with clients worldwide. I'm looking for complex problems that need both strong structure and strong aesthetics.
Who I look up to
Youcef Belabed
Youcef Belabed is the designer I'd want to become. Beyond mentoring me, his craft is what I try to reverse-engineer every time I'm stuck on a design decision.
Jakub Krehel
Jakub Krehel's writing is worth more than the €8/month I pay for it. His depth on interaction and product thinking is the kind of resource I recommend to anyone serious about this craft.
Emil Kowalski
Emil Kowalski is who I look at for motion design, the one skill I don't have yet and the next one I want to master to become a complete product designer.
Why
I've been building things for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I made functional Lego guns that fired bricks and elastics. I spent countless hours creating on LittleBigPlanet, then thousands more on Minecraft , easily 4,000 to 5,000 hours by now. Later, I designed skins for Rust.
Looking back, it was always the same instinct: something didn't feel right, so I wanted to fix it or build it better. I picked up whatever let me do that, photo editing, Illustrator, 3D, texturing.
Design is that same instinct, pointed at real problems for real people. That's why this is the path I'm on.
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