Kebria Sabouri

Kebria Sabouri

Kebria Sabouri

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Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designer

How I work

A product designer who builds shared understanding before building interfaces. Five years in Australian government digital services taught me that good design lives or dies in the spaces between teams, in policy constraints, cross-squad dependencies, and the gap between what gets designed and what gets built.

That gap is what I'm most focused on closing. I work with engineers from the start, not at the end. I prototype early, spec precisely, and increasingly use AI to compress the distance between a design decision and a working product. I'm also learning to code with Cursor and Claude, not to become a developer, but to speak the language fluently enough that handoff becomes collaboration.

I pick up new tools fast and take that seriously as a skill in itself.

featured projects

Spec as a design language: "Aligned, not handed off."

A US learning tech company needed a fraction practice tool for struggling high school students. The real problem wasn't the maths; it was shame. I reframed the experience around what students could do, wrote a behavioural spec instead of wireframes, and used AI to build a working prototype from it. Every decision traced back to the research.

Spec as a design language: "Aligned, not handed off."

A US learning tech company needed a fraction practice tool for struggling high school students. The real problem wasn't the maths; it was shame. I reframed the experience around what students could do, wrote a behavioural spec instead of wireframes, and used AI to build a working prototype from it. Every decision traced back to the research.

Blueprint: "The UX problem was a system problem"

Hundreds of thousands of NSW drivers use Online Licence Renewal each year. Many completed the entire flow only to learn at the final step that they still needed to visit a service centre. The issue wasn’t the UI. It was the architecture. I reverse engineered the service, identified where it was failing, and set a new direction before the redesign began.

Blueprint: "The UX problem was a system problem"

Hundreds of thousands of NSW drivers use Online Licence Renewal each year. Many completed the entire flow only to learn at the final step that they still needed to visit a service centre. The issue wasn’t the UI. It was the architecture. I reverse engineered the service, identified where it was failing, and set a new direction before the redesign began.

Accessibility: "Built in, not bolted on"

Accessibility is usually treated as a checklist you run at the end. I had the chance to make it the starting point. Working with different teams and roles, I embedded inclusive design into the components and page templates themselves, so every transaction built on top of them would inherit accessible behaviour by default, not by accident.

Accessibility: "Built in, not bolted on"

Accessibility is usually treated as a checklist you run at the end. I had the chance to make it the starting point. Working with different teams and roles, I embedded inclusive design into the components and page templates themselves, so every transaction built on top of them would inherit accessible behaviour by default, not by accident.

skills

End-to-end design — discovery through delivery, with prototypes that engineers can build from, not just hand off from.

Accessibility — WCAG 2.2, VoiceOver, Microsoft Accessibility Insights. I annotate for engineers, not just for audits.

Service design — blueprinting front-stage experience against back-end process and policy, particularly in complex government contexts.

Design systems — building and extending component libraries with accessibility and scalability baked in, not retrofitted.

Spec-driven development — behavioural specifications that replace ambiguous wireframe handoff and give engineers and AI a single source of truth.

AI-augmented workflow — using AI to compress research synthesis, prototype generation, and design iteration. Currently learning to code with Cursor and Claude to close the design-to-build gap further.

Tools — Figma, Framer, Cursor, Claude. Comfortable moving between design and build environments.