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UX Design, Web Design Engineering, and UX Audits.

A photo of Ahmad speaking at CSS Day Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

I bridge the gap between design and development.

I'm Ahmad, a senior UX Designer and front-end engineer (AKA design engineer, or a designer who codes, etc) known for fast, creative problem-solving and solid CSS/layout systems.

I help teams ship modern, responsive, easy to use user interfaces with speed and clarity.

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Build any web layout, with confidence. A written course on how to think about CSS layouts, so you can build them from scratch or fix the ones AI gets wrong.

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Tuhoon

Better mental health for Arabic speakers.

Accounting app

UX design for a complex accounting app.

Beyond the viewport: Introducing Site Seeing

Nov 5, 2026

Fit height to background pattern size with calc-size()

Oct 15, 2026

Detect when elements overlap with CSS

Sep 24, 2026

Better Icon and Label Alignment

Sep 15, 2026

Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance

Aug 25, 2026

The CSS lh unit

Jul 31, 2026

Debugging CSS isn’t only about adding an outline to all elements.

* {

outline: solid 1px red;

}

I wrote a book that will help you improve your debugging CSS skills and reduce the time you spend on bugs by showing proven methods and techniques.

Defensive CSS

It's a term I coined that is about writing future-proof CSS to reduce broken UIs.

RTL Styling 101

The most detailed guide on writing CSS for RTL layouts on the internet.

iShadeed Lab

A corner where I share my cutting-edge CSS experiments.

Headers CSS

The blueprint HTML and CSS for 17+ website headers.

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Make you learn something new, or at least to remind you of it.

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