Maknessi

About — Tunis, Tunisia

Designer,
lecturer,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 project management at ESEN, University of Manouba. 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 project management at ESEN, 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 2025 — Current

  2. ESEN

    Adjunct Lecturer, Project Management

    Sep 2026 — Current

  3. GOMYCODE

    UX Instructor

    Feb 2026 — Jul 2026

  4. Digit-U

    UX/UI Designer

    Oct 2023 — Aug 2024

  5. Quicktext

    UX/UI Designer

    Mar 2023 — Jul 2023

  6. Inspire Group

    UX/UI Designer

    Jul 2022 — Feb 2023

  7. groupado

    UX/UI Designer

    Dec 2020 — Jul 2021

  8. FormaLab

    Community Manager

    Mar 2019 — Jul 2019

Beyond Design

Outside of work, I’m at the gym or a few hours into Red Dead Redemption. Both are good at the same thing: switching my head off so the design problems can sort themselves out in the background.

Next step

Currently taking on new projects, from Tunis and remote.

Let’s talk about
your project.