Nomaan Akram

UX and Product Designer · Bristol

I design products, then I build them.

4 years designing at Barclays, and since 2021 running NakoLabs, a small studio for design, dev and motion. Most recently I knocked doors for a sales team, then designed and built the app they now run on.

Work

Selected work

Barclays · 2022-2026

UX Designer

4 years across Business Banking, Customer Care and Transact & Pay. I led the Premier offers onboarding flow end to end, and redesigned a CHAPS outage banner that lifted link success by 90% in testing.

  • User research
  • UserZoom
  • Figma
  • Design systems

Client · Looptech

Shopify storefront

Ongoing Shopify work. I built the Brand New and Renewed toggle, product filtering and a Smart Pick recommendation, with prices and details updating as you choose.

  • Shopify
  • Liquid
  • TypeScript

About

A designer who builds

I'm a UX and Product Designer in Bristol. I spent 4 years on the UX team at Barclays through a degree apprenticeship with Manchester Metropolitan University, shipping 2 to 3 projects and dev handovers a month.

I've coded since I was 13, so I work close to developers. At Barclays I built a design-to-dev handover framework that two teams adopted, and I ran a weekly design crit for 30 to 40 people.

Since 2021 I've run NakoLabs, a small studio for design, dev and 3D motion, with 100+ projects for 30+ clients.