Nihal Abdul Bari

Nihal Abdul Bari

I design and build products and brands with intention. Clear purpose, thoughtful details, and work that lasts.

I've worked with startups, studios, and enterprise teams, sometimes starting from zero and other times improving what already exists. I work across product design, brand identity, and frontend to turn ideas into real, usable things.

I'm driven by curiosity and craft. I like messy problems, solid systems, and making products people actually enjoy using.

Nihal is a phenomenal designer. He's extremely fast and gives great quality output. We're lucky to have found him.

Harini Raa, FleetPanda

Experience

Solo-founderCite App — Dubai, UAE
2025 - Present
Design EngineerLittlebird — Dubai, UAE (Remote)
2026 - Present
Founding DesignerHyper — Dubai, UAE (Remote)
2024 - 2026
Lead Product Designer100ms — Bengaluru, India
2021 - 2025
Senior Product DesignerUplittle — Calicut, India
2019 - 2021
Junior DesignerTridz — Bengaluru, India
2018 - 2019
Design InternAl Shehri Advertising — Jeddah, KSA
2017 - 2018

My Journey

My design journey started in 2008, when I spent hours tinkering with Corel Studio, Illustrator, and Photoshop—diving into graphic design, video editing, and animation as a kid.

Early design tools — Corel, Photoshop and video editing software

That curiosity grew into a career in brand design, and later into product design, where I could take on more strategic, user-centered challenges.

Today, I bring together product design, brand design, and frontend development—blending creativity with strategy to build products that work and resonate.