Asif Asharaf

Namaskaram, I'm Asif · Lead Product Designer at Factors.ai

I design products that actually work, and help designers get better at it.

Nine years building B2B SaaS from 0→1 to scale. I was the first designer at Factors.ai and now lead design across analytics, account intelligence, AI agents and automation. Before that, newsroom software at Quintype.

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9+

years designing products

#1

first designer at Factors.ai

3

Quintype products: Bold, Metype, Subtype

1→n

a design team grown from one

How I work

Clarity for products that carry a lot of weight.

  1. Start from the decision

    Data-heavy products fail when they show everything. I design backwards from the decision someone has to make, and cut what doesn’t serve it.

  2. Systems before screens

    A wide product built by a small team only holds together with a system underneath it: tokens, components, and patterns for the hard states.

  3. AI prepares, people decide

    In agents and AI features the craft is trust: show what the model saw, what it suggests and why, and make overriding it effortless.

⏱ The 60-second version

  • Lead Product Designer at Factors.ai. I joined in 2020 as the first designer and built the platform, design system, logo and first website from zero.
  • What I design now: analytics and attribution, account intelligence, real-time alerts, workflow automations, AI agents and Adpilot.
  • Before that, Quintype (2017–20): Bold CMS, Metype and Subtype for large digital newsrooms, plus their shared design system.
  • On the side: Nimo, an AI clinical-note system for Indian clinics, designed with Irfan; and Cull, an on-device photo culler.
  • I lead and mentor designers, and still write front-end code.