# Now — What Umair Ali Khatri Is Working On

> A now page, updated May 2026 from Karachi: leading UX across product and delivery, shipping skill-kit, running my whole operation through Claude.

Source: https://umairalikhatri.com/now/
Author: Umair Ali Khatri
Updated: 2026-05-01

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# Now

Updated: May 2026, Karachi

## Work

- Leading UX across product, marketing, and delivery

- Teaching my design team to think in systems, not screens

- Simplifying things that got too complex

## Building

- 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.

- 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.

- Writing specs and shipping features through Claude Code. Dil, my pixel heart mascot, was designed, prototyped, and documented entirely through this workflow.

- Making agents that do the tedious parts so I can do the interesting parts.

## Teaching

- On sabbatical from IVS

- Still showing up for guest sessions and mentoring

- Rewriting my learning materials in the background

## Community

- Planning the next Friends of Figma Karachi meetup

- Thinking about what AI actually changes for designers, and what it doesn't

## Play

- Padel tennis, left hand only

- Blending perfumes

- Remixing songs with AI tools

- Tinkering with my personal site more than I probably should

## Life

- Protecting deep focus

- Balancing social energy with quiet time

- Saying yes to fewer things, but meaning it more

Previously:

[→ What I was doing in February 2026](https://umairalikhatri.com/now/february-2026/)

Keep going:

[→ More about me](https://umairalikhatri.com/about/)

[→ Things I'm writing about](https://umairalikhatri.com/writing/)

[→ The rest of my life](https://umairalikhatri.com/life/)