Naxeem's Blog

My name is Naxeem and I'm a Graphic/UI Designer living and working in the capital of Maldives. This is where I share random thoughts from time to time.

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An exciting month, a few of my projects were launched

The first project is Roadha Menu, this project was assigned to me at Allied (where I work). It is a joint project by Allied and Eat.mv, where Eat.mv provides the content for the app and Allied makes the app. I worked as the designer and developer on this project. It is a available for both iOS and Android.

Download iOS

Download Android

The next project is Medianet Euro Challenge 2016. This was a freelance project that I did where I worked as the designer and developer. It was made using euro 2016 assets and based on the requirements by Medianet.

Check it out

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Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.

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If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER LIE TO YOURSELF

Paulo Coelho (via abdulhaqq-faaris)

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Sticking to one thing isn’t always the right way.

I decided to try something new. Not completely new though. I decided to move away from the Designer/developer thing that I have going on and study MBA. I finally realized that I am not meant to do just one thing. Learning a new field, expanding my horizon seems to be a good thing.

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Staring at the horizon where the sky fades in to the earth

I often ask myself what my passion is, what is it that defines me, what I like to do. The answer I give myself is that I am a designer and that I love to design. Over the years this is what I have been doing and I enjoy doing it. A designer... Some years ago I was proud to wear that label. I had a lot to show for, everyday I worked hard to improve my craft. But now, after working in a corporate job for over 2 years I ask myself the same question and I am left with no answer. I want to say I am still a designer, but I don't really have much to show for it. I set out to be a User Interface designer. At my job I end up doing more coding than design. Instead of learning a new technique in Photoshop or learning Affinity Photo that came out some months back, I ended up learning new javascript frameworks and some php. I learned how to use git. It was fun, I enjoyed learning all that too, but can I still call myself a designer? I don't remember the last time I opened Photoshop or Illustrator like I used to, to create something out of an idea.

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Out of new ideas... maybe

Lately it has come to my attention that all the website designs that I come up with are very similar to each other. Round corners, big hero images, bright colors, etc. When looking for inspiration around the web, everyone else is doing the more or less the same thing as well. I am bored of doing the same thing over and over again. Maybe I should try something new for a while, something other than web design. Don't even remember the last time I used Photoshop edit/create. I bought Affinity Photo a few months ago, to try it out. Maybe its time to give it a go.

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Today marks one year at Allied

One whole year at Allied Insurance Company of Maldives. Its been a great year. I got the chance to work with a great team. Sadly there was more development work than design. This year I learned front end development using Backbone.Marionette and started using Sass-lang. I also started using Git for version control. Got to work on Allied Intranet (Design and Development), Aasandha web app (UI design), Ayady Takaful website (Design and Development) and Allied Health Insurance portal (Interface design). Looking forward for next year.

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SASS my new best friend

For so long I have avoided CSS preprocessors... never gave it much thought until a few weeks ago. There is not much to learn it is all easy to understand how to use it. Using mixins and variables and all the goodies built in it saves a lot of time when working on a large scale web application. Me being a front and web designer + developer it is the perfect tool for me. If you haven't already, you should try it.

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got a new skin for my mac book pro.... I think red looks great on it :P

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Great experience taking part in the first hackathon in Maldives by Kickstart.mv

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Designer's block... A scary thing

Been a week since i felt like nothing is working, you’ve lost all my talent and everything I designed looked like garbage... It turned out my head was doing some background computing to solve a bug on something I was working on... Back to designing awesome interfaces again... Yeiii

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When you get to do Wot u love to do it doesn't feel like work...

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A new life a new job a new place

Working in the concrete jungle of Maldives is not what I dreamt of doing...but I get to do what I love... Let's see how this goes...

Life as a Designer in male begins....

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Two of my B.A. projects featured at AOD

Right side near Graphic Design. Oh yeah... Right out side where everyone can see... My Smiledives campaign and Ray event branding project. Near the entrance of AOD International Design campus

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What you know... I don't write much

After writing 8000 words I felt like I should write something. B.A. is going great, lost interest for a while there but I'm back on track..

Above are a series of posters I did for a project I'm working on...

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B.A. gonna start B.A. finally :P

Starting next Monday it's B.A. keke. Can't wait. Got nothing else to say... oh yeah.. I enjoyed the holidays in Maldives ^_^...

And look here is an interesting place to display your work... Dropr

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Long time huh?

It's the last few days of HND and have two more submissions to make. Hoping to get into BA. Below is a poster series I submitted this time for a project...