about najah
hey, i'm najah or mohamed najah and i am from pookkottur a village in Kerala, India. i'm a graphic designer and developer. i focus on creating lightweight, soulful, and performant web products by combining graphic design precision with front-end code.
background and approach
i comes from kerala in a house where there is an old hp laptop was , i learned to build with constraints. that constraint became my edge, forcing me to strip away fluff, prioritize speed, and make every single line of code and visual pixel count.
whether it's designing brand systems in illustrator or figma or writing modern react and next.js components, i treat design and code as two sides of the same coin.
toolkit and skills
ui/ux design, brutalist minimalism, typography systems, vector illustration, figma, illustrator, photoshop.
react, next.js, javascript, html5, vanilla css, tailwind, git, github api integration, fast prototyping.
author of breakdown by najah newsletter, writing on design systems, UI patterns, global politics, and independent software development.
get in touch
i am currently open for freelance projects, design consultations, and full-time engineering or design roles.