Nour Malaeb Design Engineer

I'm a designer who builds. I have over a decade of experience across industrial, interaction, brand, and web design.

I currently lead product design at Cloverly, a startup providing software solutions for carbon credit project developers.

I'm currently building a simple, mobile-focused protein tracking web app .

My master’s thesis work exploring robotic adaptations for homes for disabled people won an award from Fast Company's Innovation by Design in 2018.

Experience

Lead Product Designer

Cloverly 2022 – Present

Roles
  • Product Design
  • Product Management
  • Frontend Dev
Tools & Technologies
  • Figma
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Retool

Cloverly provides software for managing carbon credits throughout their lifecycle: forecasting, production, sales, and retirement.

I’ve been Cloverly’s product designer since mid-2022, working to improve existing products and create new products. The work includes:

  • Set up a design system with components and tokens.
  • Launched Catalyst, a new product vertical targeting carbon credit producers and sellers.
  • Created prototypes in Retool that were commercialized and sold to prospective customers as betas for upcoming features in the main product.

Freelance Design & Web Development

Self-employed 2016 – Present

Roles
  • Product Design
  • User research
  • Brand design
  • Frontend Dev
  • Full stack dev
  • Creative Technologist
Tools & Technologies
  • Figma
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Three.js
  • React-three-fiber
  • Motion.dev
  • Svelte
  • Blender
  • Sanity.io

I’ve maintained a freelance practice for most of my professional career, wearing many hats depending on what my clients needed.

Projects include:

  • Design and build a portfolio website for BAFTA-winning composer Firas Abou Fakher
  • Designing and building a website for a non-profit providing emerging tech education to underserved communities for Whose Future?
  • Developing a marketing site for viewing and booking a stay on sustainable regenerative farms for Sagra
  • Working with a major pharmaceutical to explore digital solutions for cancer patients
  • Redesigning a platform for managing open innovation challenges for Luminary Labs
  • Product and web design for a new kind of therapeutic device

Founder & Principal Design Technologist

Superliminal 2020 – 2021

Roles
  • Product Design
  • User research
  • Brand design
  • Frontend Dev
  • Full stack dev
  • Creative Technologist
Tools & Technologies
  • Figma
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Gatsby
  • Next.js
  • Three.js
  • Prismic
  • WebGL

Part of a small and nimble team of generalists designing brands, products, and websites for early-stage startups.

In addition to research, brand, and product design, I developed web apps with React, HTML, CSS, WebGL, Next.js, Three.js, and GSAP, for clients such as:

Director of Design

Redesign Health 2019 – 2020

Roles
  • User research
  • Product Design
  • Brand design
Tools & Technologies
  • Figma

Redesign Health is a venture studio dedicated to addressing healthcare challenges in the United States through technology driven innovation.

As Director of Design, I was responsible for evaluating, validating, and developing new concepts with users through rapid prototyping and qualitative research.

Additionally, I led brand and product design for existing ventures, with a focus on accessibility, usability, and trust.

Projects

Daily Protein

dailyprotein.club

Roles
  • Product Design
  • Frontend
  • Backend
Tools & Technologies
  • Figma
  • Next.js
  • React
  • motion.dev
  • Supabase
  • Postgres

A simple protein tracker.

The goal of this project was to make it easy for me to track my daily protein consumption and try to hit my goals.

The experience is optimized for mobile and can be saved as a PWA.

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About this page

Hand coded with HTML, CSS, and JS.

Animations powered by GSAP.

Instrument Sans Variable font from Google Fonts, served by FontSource .

Departure Mono font by Helena Zhang.

(I've always wanted a colophon.)

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