# Umair Ali Khatri

> UX design leader and teacher based in Karachi, Pakistan. Makes design systems agent-ready and builds AI agents that execute. Runs the Friends of Figma Karachi chapter. Creator of skill-kit and the Dil pixel-heart mascot.

Umair Ali Khatri leads a User Experience Design function and teaches Interaction Design and Tech Product Management at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture (currently on sabbatical). His current focus is making design systems consumable by AI agents via the SKILL.md and DESIGN.md standards, and building execution-focused AI agents. Contact: hello@umairalikhatri.com.

## Pages
- [Home](https://umairalikhatri.com/): Umair Ali Khatri is a UX design leader and teacher in Karachi who makes design systems agent-ready and builds AI agents that execute. UX, teaching, community.
- [About](https://umairalikhatri.com/about/): I'm Umair Ali Khatri, a UX design leader and teacher based in Karachi. Calm outside, many parallel threads inside. I lead UX, teach, run Friends of Figma Karachi, and build AI agents.
- [Dil](https://umairalikhatri.com/dil/): Dil is the pixel heart on this site. It blinks, follows your cursor, and falls asleep if you go quiet. Dil is Urdu for heart. A design-system character built from 6×6 pixel blocks.
- [Writing](https://umairalikhatri.com/writing/): Honest notes over perfect essays. Umair Ali Khatri writes to understand what he is learning — UX, design leadership, community, scent, sound, and the systems he builds for himself.
- [Now](https://umairalikhatri.com/now/): A now page. As of May 2026 in Karachi: leading UX across product, marketing and delivery; shipping skill-kit; moving ops to Claude; teaching on sabbatical; padel and perfume.
- [February 2026](https://umairalikhatri.com/now/february-2026/): An archived now-page snapshot from February 2026 in Karachi: guiding a design team to think in systems, sabbatical from IVS, Friends of Figma meetups, and building execution agents.
- [Work](https://umairalikhatri.com/work/): Umair Ali Khatri makes design systems agent-ready. Audit, workshop, or talk: turn your design system into SKILL.md and DESIGN.md files agents can actually act on.
- [skill-kit](https://umairalikhatri.com/work/skill-kit/): skill-kit is a concept-first knowledge graph of design skills for AI agents: 577 enriched files across 9 categories, distilled from 24 platforms. One concept, one file. Public and re-runnable.
- [Life](https://umairalikhatri.com/life/): The rest of Umair Ali Khatri: left-handed padel, perfumery inherited from his father, AI music experiments, and a life of calm outside with many threads running inside.

## Work
- [skill-kit on GitHub](https://github.com/Youmair/skill-kit): a concept-first knowledge graph of design skills for AI agents — 577 enriched files across 9 categories, distilled from 24 platforms. Public and re-runnable.
- Services: Audit (turn a design system into SKILL.md/DESIGN.md files), Workshop (hands-on SKILL.md draft), and Talks.

## Facts
- Name: Umair Ali Khatri
- Role: Head of User Experience Design
- Location: Karachi, Pakistan
- Community: Friends of Figma Karachi (one of the most active chapters in 2024)
- Interests: design systems, AI agents, interaction design, perfumery, padel tennis (left-handed)
- Contact: hello@umairalikhatri.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Youmair