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  "title": "Umair Ali Khatri",
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  "description": "UX design leader, teacher and community organiser based in Karachi, Pakistan. Leads the user experience design function, teaches Interaction Design and Tech Product Management at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, runs the Friends of Figma Karachi chapter, and makes design systems readable by AI agents.",
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      "title": "Now — May 2026",
      "content_text": "# Now — What Umair Ali Khatri Is Working On\n\n> A now page, updated May 2026 from Karachi: leading UX across product and delivery, shipping skill-kit, running my whole operation through Claude.\n\nSource: https://umairalikhatri.com/now/\nAuthor: Umair Ali Khatri\nUpdated: 2026-05-01\n\n---\n\n# Now\n\nUpdated: May 2026, Karachi\n\n## Work\n\n- Leading UX across product, marketing, and delivery\n\n- Teaching my design team to think in systems, not screens\n\n- Simplifying things that got too complex\n\n## Building\n\n- Shipped [skill-kit](https://umairalikhatri.com/work/skill-kit/), a design-skills knowledge graph for AI agents. 577 files across 9 categories, concept-first, queryable, re-runnable.\n\n- Moved my entire ops to Claude. Chat for thinking, Code for building, Cowork for orchestrating. The AI isn't a tool I use sometimes. It's how I work now.\n\n- Writing specs and shipping features through Claude Code. Dil, my pixel heart mascot, was designed, prototyped, and documented entirely through this workflow.\n\n- Making agents that do the tedious parts so I can do the interesting parts.\n\n## Teaching\n\n- On sabbatical from IVS\n\n- Still showing up for guest sessions and mentoring\n\n- Rewriting my learning materials in the background\n\n## Community\n\n- Planning the next Friends of Figma Karachi meetup\n\n- Thinking about what AI actually changes for designers, and what it doesn't\n\n## Play\n\n- Padel tennis, left hand only\n\n- Blending perfumes\n\n- Remixing songs with AI tools\n\n- Tinkering with my personal site more than I probably should\n\n## Life\n\n- Protecting deep focus\n\n- Balancing social energy with quiet time\n\n- Saying yes to fewer things, but meaning it more\n\nPreviously:\n\n[→ What I was doing in February 2026](https://umairalikhatri.com/now/february-2026/)\n\nKeep going:\n\n[→ More about me](https://umairalikhatri.com/about/)\n\n[→ Things I'm writing about](https://umairalikhatri.com/writing/)\n\n[→ The rest of my life](https://umairalikhatri.com/life/)\n",
      "summary": "A now page, updated May 2026 from Karachi: leading UX across product and delivery, shipping skill-kit, running my whole operation through Claude.",
      "date_published": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+05:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://umairalikhatri.com/now/february-2026/",
      "url": "https://umairalikhatri.com/now/february-2026/",
      "title": "Now — February 2026",
      "content_text": "# Now, February 2026 — Archived Snapshot\n\n> An archived now page from February 2026: teaching a design team to think in systems, a sabbatical from IVS, Friends of Figma Karachi, and the first agents.\n\nSource: https://umairalikhatri.com/now/february-2026/\nAuthor: Umair Ali Khatri\nUpdated: 2026-02-01\n\n---\n\n# Now\n\nArchived snapshot · February 2026, Karachi\n\n## Work\n\n- Guiding my design team to think in systems\n\n- Making our products clearer and simpler\n\n- Helping designers make better decisions\n\n## Teaching\n\n- Paused formal teaching at IVS for a sabbatical\n\n- Staying in touch through guest sessions and mentoring\n\n- Updating learning materials in the background\n\n## Community\n\n- Planning upcoming Friends of Figma Karachi meetups\n\n- Exploring how AI is changing design workflows\n\n## Play\n\n- Padel tennis with my left hand\n\n- Experimenting with perfume blends\n\n- Remixing songs using AI tools\n\n## Agents I am building\n\n- Workflow agents that break tasks into steps\n\n- Execution agents that move tasks forward\n\n- Systems that update me only when I need to pay attention\n\n## Life\n\n- Balancing social energy with quiet time\n\n- Protecting deep focus\n\n- Saying yes to meaningful things\n\nKeep going:\n\n[→ What I'm doing now](https://umairalikhatri.com/now/)\n\n[→ More about me](https://umairalikhatri.com/about/)\n\n[→ The rest of my life](https://umairalikhatri.com/life/)\n",
      "summary": "An archived now page from February 2026: teaching a design team to think in systems, a sabbatical from IVS, Friends of Figma Karachi, and the first agents.",
      "date_published": "2026-02-01T00:00:00+05:00"
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