Fig. 01 — The designer at workInk on jet
I’m Sanya Munam — a UX Lead based in Doha with 7+ years of experience, shaping UX strategy and design direction for government, private and enterprise institutions across Qatar and Kuwait.
I didn’t arrive at UX through a job posting. I arrived through curiosity — three moments, spread across a few unremarkable months, that quietly rewired what I wanted to do with my life. They still shape how I work: observe closely, respect people’s time, and sweat the details nobody will ever consciously notice.
The basics
A two-week design thinking workshop at Broadcom — my first company — changed what I thought actually matters when building products: users, and the problems they need solving. Coming from an engineering background, I never saw it coming. That workshop was my foothold into the world of UX.
My father — a man who once asked me to "open the Google" — sent money on Google Pay on his first try. No manual, no fear, no phone call to me. I sat there quietly amazed. Great design doesn’t teach people technology; it makes technology irrelevant. That’s the standard I hold every product to.
Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs kept me up for two weeks. Not the genius mythology — the obsession. Fonts on a dropout’s calligraphy bench becoming the Mac’s typography. The idea that taste is a discipline, that technology alone is not enough — it has to marry the liberal arts. I never unread that.
