Good design speaks. I just help it find the words.
Waqar H. Syed - Creative Director and Visual Designer
Experience
successfully
Every great design begins with an even better story
I'm a Creative Director and UI/UX Designer with over 15 years of experience shipping visual systems at scale. My icon work for Freepik and other stock marketplaces has been used by millions around the world. I love character illustration, stylized 2D art, and building clean mobile-first interfaces. These days, I'm focused on game creative direction: character design, world building, and game UI systems.
Education & Experience
My Specializations
Art pipelines, style guides, design QA and team leadership across multi-designer studios.
Character sheets, environment art, game UI/HUD and progression visuals for mobile titles.
Figma & Adobe XD, mobile-first interfaces, usability testing and user-centered workflows.
My Advantages
Featured Work
Brand Identity
Websites
Web & Smart Phone Apps
Icon Packs
Gaming Assets
Achievements & Recognition
Winner, Vapur "Thirst for Design" International Competition (2010). Design "Shark Bait" selected from over 1,000 global submissions to become part of Vapur's limited edition Artist Series, sold across the US and Canada in 2011.
50+ design contest wins spanning logos, branding, print media, web, and mobile app design, working with startups across a wide range of industries
Runner-up in the Yahoo and eBay logo design contests.