Maknessi®

About — Tunis, Tunisia

Designer,
instructor,founder.

Portrait of Ahmed Maknessi

Hello, I’m Ahmed, a UX/UI Designer.

I started in graphic design, which is probably why I still care about how a product looks at rest, not just how it behaves under a click. Five years in, I design and build digital products for fintech, SaaS, Web3, and e-commerce, as a full-time designer and as a freelancer.

Right now that means shipping TalentAI at Dar Blockchain, growing Karny.app on the side, and teaching the next generation of UX/UI designers at GOMYCODE. Three jobs, one obsession: products that people don’t have to think about to use.

“A well-rounded perspective fuels innovative solutions — staying curious matters as much as mastering the tools.”

Skills & tools

Research
User interviews, usability audits, journey mapping, personas
Design
Figma, design systems, atomic design, prototyping, wireframing
Brand
Identity systems, logos, visual guidelines, art direction
Communication
Content strategy, community, teaching, workshop facilitation
Languages
Arabic, French, English — with RTL design experience
Domains
AI SaaS, fintech, Web3, e-commerce, education

How I work

  1. Consulting

    Every project starts with a conversation, not a contract. I get to know the client's goals, audience, competitors, and what the project actually has to achieve, because a beautiful site solving the wrong problem is just expensive decoration.

  2. Designing

    I always start with the homepage. It sets the visual and structural language for everything that follows, like the first sentence of a good story. Once it's approved, I build out the rest of the site from that foundation, so every page feels like it belongs to the same world.

  3. Developing

    I build the final product myself, in code. No handing off a static design and hoping it survives contact with a browser. I stay involved through launch, so what ships is what we designed, pixel for pixel, decision for decision.

Where I’ve worked

I’m a UX/UI Designer and Communication Specialist based in Tunis. My work runs across SaaS, fintech, blockchain, and AI-powered platforms, from a next-gen bank ATM to an AI hiring platform. I’ve shipped end-to-end products at Dar Blockchain, Digit-U, and Quicktext, I teach UX/UI at GOMYCODE, and I build my own products on the side, like Karny and TalentAI. The pattern: I don’t stop at the mockup.

  1. Dar Blockchain

    UX/UI Designer

    Jan 2025Current

  2. GOMYCODE

    UX Instructor

    2026Current

  3. Digit-U

    UX/UI Designer

    10/202308/2024

  4. Quicktext

    UX/UI Designer

    03/202307/2023

  5. Inspire Group

    UX/UI Designer

    07/202202/2023

  6. groupado

    UX/UI Designer

    12/202007/2021

  7. FormaLab

    Community Manager

    03/201907/2019

Beyond Design

Outside of design, you’ll usually find me at the gym or a few hours deep into Red Dead Redemption. I also spend a lot of time in the Tunisian Web3 and startup scene, less a hobby than a habit at this point, but it’s where most of my best project ideas come from. Turns out the sharpest design insights rarely happen in Figma.

Next step

Currently taking on new projects, from Tunis and remote.

Let’s talk about
your project.