Design, code, and AI in one head. I take healthcare and AI founders from idea to a product that ships, in weeks. And I run my own products too, so I've sat in the founder's seat, not just the designer's.
Fixed scope, fixed price. Prototype, workflow automation, or a full build.
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Anyone can ship a prototype now. The hard part was never the code, it's making something people actually get excited about, fund, and come back to. That's a design problem, and it's the one that decides whether your idea becomes a company.
Most people you'd hire for this are career designers. I'm a designer who's also shipped and run my own products, priced them, watched the signup graph stay flat, killed the features nobody used, felt every consequence of getting the experience wrong.
So I don't hand you a Figma file and walk away. I design and build for the outcome you actually need: board sign-off, the investment, a user who comes back. I've had to earn those exact yeses with my own money on the line.
Engineers come at it from the backend. PMs from the spec. I come at it from the experience, the part that gets people to say yes.
clickable, real, live
One core flow on a live URL, to show a board, test with users, or pitch before you build the whole thing.
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02 · 2 weekscustom tool · AI · deployed
A custom internal tool or AI workflow that kills a painful, repetitive process, in your team's hands.
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Most popular 03 · 3 weeksauth · db · core loop · live
A real product users can sign up for, deployed, and the code is yours to keep.
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Plus Build Partner, an ongoing retainer after launch. See full offers & how it works →
idea → shipped product
An AI journaling app for IFS therapy, designed, built and shipped end to end.
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Lightswitchidea → soft launch
Designed the onboarding, design system and checkout for a monetization platform.
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Practice with Joyclinics' marketing run
An AI marketing engine, brand, sites and content for a network of clinics.
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Humayun is the rare designer who can take a fuzzy, high-stakes problem and turn it into something clean and shippable. He led the design of our COVID-19 assessment platform under real deadline pressure and made it look easy. Any team would be lucky to have him.
Humayun took our MVP functionality and updated brand guidelines to create a design system and product experience we could be proud of, while keeping the mothers we work with firmly in mind. He'd be a valuable addition to any early-stage start-up.
Humayun is one of those rare people who can design and build the whole thing.
Not as a side hustle, as a way to stay honest. Running my own products means I'm not theorizing about what founders face. I'm living it this week: the pricing call, the distribution grind, the question of whether anyone will use the thing.
An AI journaling app inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy.
Every lesson from these goes straight into your product.
I'm Humayun, a product designer and builder based in Montreal, working remotely since 2020. Shopify, ClassDojo, and a string of healthcare and AI startups before going independent.
Now I run Studio Maya: I take founders from idea to a shipped product, and I build my own. The name is from Raymond Loewy's principle, Most Advanced Yet Acceptable, the line between novel and familiar, which is exactly where good products live.
I take one new build at a time. If the timing's right, let's talk.
