prologue // march 2026

daniyal admaney: product designer, chronic over-thinker, occasional country-hopper.

designed solo at a YC-backed startup. moved countries twice in pursuit of understanding this craft better. now designing inside enterprise systems at Continental AG.

somewhere along the way I started seeing the parallel. Life and design both unfold in chapters. always evolving, never quite finished, no such thing as a perfect answer.

this website is an ongoing attempt to document that journey without making it look cleaner than it was.

introduction // march 2026

“you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
— Jobs, Stanford 2005

i was 17 when I first heard Steve Jobs' famous Stanford address. The modern-day guru of design. Held onto that quote ever since. not because I had it figured out, but because it made the mess feel intentional.

Continental AG

Continental AG · UX & Interaction Designer

continental hq // jan 2026

continental hq // jan 2026

quarterly pi planning // oct 2025

quarterly pi planning // oct 2025

feature design // aug 25 - feb 26

Pushing a feature in corporate: Vehicle & Tire Details

Enterprise SaaS · Fleet Management · Complex UI

fleet operators were staring at pages of dense vehicle data. horizontal scrolling, no hierarchy, cognitive overload everywhere. Not great. We redesigned the whole thing. New structure, new layout, interactions that follow the mental model of the operators that use this daily.

role: ux, ui, interaction designer impact: a new bird-view layout, standardized header component, progressive disclosure patterns, reduced cognitive load, higher accessibility. The works.

READ THE STORY
Pushing a feature in corporate: Vehicle & Tire Details

M.Sc. Usability Engineering

M.Sc. Usability Engineering · Hochschule Rhein-Waal

another design sprint // april 2025

another design sprint // april 2025

presenting again // dec 2024

presenting again // dec 2024

design sprint // oct 2024

design sprint // oct 2024

product concept // summer 2025

Swoosh: Community sports matchmaking app

Sports-tech · SaaS Mobile App · Student Project

finding people to play sports with locally is harder than it should be. Swoosh was a product design concept exploring how to make that easier. Casual matchmaking, local game organization, low friction.

role: team lead, ux, ui, interaction designer focus: building a design system, interaction design, user flows, product concept development

SEE WHAT WE DID
Swoosh: Community sports matchmaking app

product concept // summer 2025

Glint: A digital guidance platform for international students

EdTech · AI-integrated Web App · Student Project

applying to universities in Germany as an international student is a bureaucratic nightmare. Fragmented information everywhere, no clear process, zero hand-holding. We went in full scale. Interviews, surveys, focus groups, multiple rounds of usability testing, the whole shebang. To build something that the users wanted.

role: ux research, product design focus: design process, user research, usability testing, interaction design, prototyping

VIEW OUR DESIGN PROCESS
Glint: A digital guidance platform for international students

academic research // winter 24 — summer 25

Designing safer in-vehicle infotainment systems

Automotive · HCI Research

designed a research-backed in-car interface from scratch, then tested it in a driving simulator with 27 participants and eye-tracking glasses to see which input modality caused the least distraction. Touchscreen, voice, or multimodal: who wins?

role: team lead, ux researcher, interaction designer focus: academia, interface design, human factors research, driving simulation, eye-tracking

READ THE PAPER
Designing safer in-vehicle infotainment systems

MixRank (YC S11)

MixRank (YC S11) · Product Designer

working at home // nov 2022

working at home // nov 2022

remote life // july 2023

remote life // july 2023

working in bus // nov 2023

working in bus // nov 2023

new branding, new website // sometime in 23

Raising conversions by 11.5% through website redesign

B2B SaaS · Marketing

the website wasn't doing the platform justice. so outdated. Redesigned it to clearly communicate what MixRank does. To the right people, and in a way that made them want to stick around.

role: product / web designer impact: 11.5% increase in conversion rate · 9% increase in lead generation · 9.5% increase in user engagement · 8% increase in average time spent

VIEW THE IMPACT
Raising conversions by 11.5% through website redesign

fix the ux // ongoing throughout

Designing data-heavy interfaces for MixRank

B2B SaaS · Data Platform · Complex UI

massive datasets, dense tables, a lot of information fighting for attention. The job was to make all of that feel navigable and easy to understand.

role: product designer focus: complex UI, information hierarchy, interaction design

EXPLORE THE WORK
Designing data-heavy interfaces for MixRank

Tractus Technologies

Tractus Technologies · Product Designer/Developer

freezing in summers // june 2021

freezing in summers // june 2021

wdym i gotta code? // aug 2021

wdym i gotta code? // aug 2021

pizza fridays // nov 2021

pizza fridays // nov 2021

one of the several products // summers 21?

Augmented reality inspections app

Industrial Tech · AR · Product Design

designed an augmented-reality inspection interface for field technicians. To help them identify equipment issues faster without pulling them out of the physical task they're already doing.

role: product design, f.e dev impact: AR workflows, interaction design, field usability

VIEW CASE STUDY
Augmented reality inspections app

B.Sc. Information Systems and Technologies

B.Sc. Information Systems and Technologies · Bilkent University

cant score past me // nov 2019

cant score past me // nov 2019

mr president - international house  // 2020-21

mr president - international house // 2020-21

look ma i graduated // june 2021

look ma i graduated // june 2021

internship // summer 2020

Fleet platform UI/UX improvements: Mobiliz

Fleet-tech · SaaS Web App · Internship

my first real taste of ux and product work. Got introduced to Nielsen's heuristics for the first time. Five months running usability tests, flagging 20+ UX issues, and designing a full interactive high fidelity prototype for the company's iOS app. Also ended up writing automated API tests in Java. Not exactly in the job description, but that's internships for you.

role: product design & testing intern focus: usability evaluation, interaction design, mobile prototyping

Fleet platform UI/UX improvements: Mobiliz

internship // summer 2021

Healthcare UX research: Sehat Kahani

Health-tech · UX Research · Internship

joined as a general tech intern who would do graphic design, video editing, social media content, the usual. Eventually talked my way into interviewing users, sat down with around 50 doctors, documented what wasn't working, and put together a list of usability issues across their platforms. Only connected the dots to UX research much later.

role: technology intern focus: user research, usability testing, graphic design, video editing

Healthcare UX research: Sehat Kahani

Founder and CEO

Founder and CEO · iTees

invited to speak @ kaymu // 2015

invited to speak @ kaymu // 2015

young entrepreneurs summit //  2016

young entrepreneurs summit // 2016

some conference // 2016

some conference // 2016

the water ain't edited // baskochi, pakistan,

the water ain't edited // baskochi, pakistan,

wish that was my dog // fethiye, turkey

wish that was my dog // fethiye, turkey

cricket never stops // cologne, germany

cricket never stops // cologne, germany

actually dead inside // dusseldorf, germany

actually dead inside // dusseldorf, germany

always on the search // hannover, germany

always on the search // hannover, germany

that's a real skull // passu glacier, pakistan

that's a real skull // passu glacier, pakistan

quidditich is a real sport // izmir, turkey

quidditich is a real sport // izmir, turkey

Illustrated portrait of Steve Jobs

“Stay hungry, stay foolish”.

— some genius