Brief to coded prototype. Seven days.

16 years of senior design judgment — applied to your exact brief, accelerated by AI. Not a template. Not something your team can replicate with a tool. Bespoke craft, delivered fast.

Senior-led. Fixed price. Done in 7 days.

Used by founders building for fintech, lottery, and consumer tech.

7 days
Brief to prototype. Every sprint, guaranteed.
Fixed
Price agreed upfront. No hourly billing, ever.
16yrs+
Senior design experience applied directly to your product.
How it works

Seven days.
No hand-offs. No surprises.

01
Submit your brief

Tell us what you're building, who it's for, and what outcome you need. We'll confirm fit and scope within 24 hours.

02
Strategy and direction

Day one is senior-led. We align on problem framing, user flows, and the design direction before a pixel is placed.

03
AI-accelerated design

Days two to six. Senior design + AI tooling in parallel. Rapid iteration without compromising craft or detail.

04
Delivery on day seven

Final Figma files, prototype, and handoff specs. Ready for investors, engineers, or your next funding conversation.

What we do

Three sprints.
One clear outcome each.

01
Investor Demo Sprint

A high-fidelity prototype and polished deck-ready screens, designed to close your next round. Built for founders going into a fundraise.

Fundraise
Who it's for
Pre-seed and seed founders preparing for investor meetings. You have the idea and the deck. You need the product to look and feel like the real thing.
What's included
UX strategy and user flow mapping. High-fidelity UI screens. Interactive prototype. Investor-ready presentation assets. Delivered in 7 days.
Outcome
A prototype that makes investors believe in your vision. Something you can demo live in a pitch, not describe from a slide.
02
Developer Handoff Sprint

Production-ready designs your engineering team can build from immediately. Full specs, edge cases, and component structure included.

Engineering
Who it's for
Founders with engineers ready to build. You've validated the idea. You need designs that remove ambiguity and let your team ship fast without constant back-and-forth.
What's included
End-to-end screen design. Component structure. Interaction states and edge cases. Figma dev mode annotations. Handoff documentation. Delivered in 7 days.
Outcome
Designs your engineers can open in Figma and build from today. No design debt baked in from day one.
03
Validation Sprint

A testable prototype built to validate core assumptions with real users before you commit budget to development.

Research
Who it's for
Founders who want to test before they build. You have a hypothesis about what users want — this sprint gives you something real to put in front of them within a week.
What's included
Core flow design. Clickable prototype. Test scenarios and script. Usability session facilitation guidance. Insight summary. Delivered in 7 days.
Outcome
Validated direction before a line of code is written. Spend confidently, build the right thing first.
What's included

Every sprint.
Fixed scope, fixed timeline.

Scope is agreed before work starts. Pricing is discussed on the call — it depends on what you need, not a fixed menu.

Investor Demo Sprint
High-fidelity UI screens
Interactive Figma prototype
Investor-ready presentation assets
Delivered in 7 days
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Developer Handoff Sprint
End-to-end screen design
Full user flows + edge cases
Dev-ready Figma handoff specs
Delivered in 7 days
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Validation Sprint
Core flow design
Clickable prototype for user testing
Test scenarios + insight summary
Delivered in 7 days
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Selected work

Outcomes,
not just outputs.

Fintech 0→1
Krak

Designed the full consumer neobank experience from zero — card UX, onboarding, account flows, and IA. Shipped across 5 markets, achieving PMF in 8 weeks and driving millions in early transaction volume with thousands of card orders in the first sprint.

PMF in 8 weeks. Millions in transaction volume.
Regulated UX 0→1 Mobile
Big Ticket

Built UAE's flagship regulated lottery app from scratch — purchase flows, responsible play, self-exclusion, spend limits, and admin CMS. Every screen compliant, every interaction considered. Designed and handed to engineering, ready to scale.

Regulated markets, zero compliance gaps.
Enterprise AI-Augmented
Northladder

Reimagined the trade-in experience for the world's largest tech retailers. A white-label widget and platform redesigned end-to-end and embedded at enterprise scale. Two major workstreams shipped in 30 days — operating at a pace traditional agencies can't match without compromising on craft.

Embedded at enterprise scale globally. Two workstreams shipped in month one.
Fashion E-commerce
Badibanga

Launched a fashion-forward e-commerce brand into the UAE market from zero digital presence. Full online store design, brand expression, product UX, and checkout — built to convert from day one.

Zero to live. Fashion e-commerce launch in the UAE.
Hospitality Digital Presence
Tania's

Uplifted a beloved restaurant's digital presence from the ground up — new website, in-restaurant digital menus, and integrated online delivery automation. More orders, less friction, stronger brand in every touchpoint.

Stronger brand. Automated delivery. Higher order volume.
Who we are

Senior design experience.
Applied directly to your sprint.

RUONALIM is led by Jay Tulloch — 16 years of product design leadership across Careem, Kraken, Metro Bank, and Almosafer. Work that's been used by tens of millions of people.

When you book a sprint, you're not handed to a junior team. You get the same senior judgment and craft applied directly to your product, delivered in a fixed timeline at a fixed price.

16 years experience Careem · Kraken · Metro Bank Fintech & Crypto Regulated UX AI Product Design Beyond the Interface Podcast

Seven days to
your next milestone.

We typically reply within 4 hours during Dubai business hours.

Common questions

Everything you
need to know.

Yes. The sprint is structured to deliver in 7 working days from brief confirmation. Day one is strategy and direction. Days two to six are design. Day seven is final delivery: Figma files, prototype, and handoff specs. We hold that commitment unless scope changes significantly mid-sprint.
Investor Demo Sprint if you're heading into a fundraise and need a prototype to show. Developer Handoff Sprint if you have engineers ready to build and need designs they can actually work from. Validation Sprint if you want to test assumptions with real users before committing to development. Not sure? Book a call — we'll tell you which one fits.
AI handles the production work that previously required junior teams: rapid design exploration, component generation, copy variants, iteration cycles. Senior leadership owns what AI can't replicate: strategy, taste, system thinking, final judgment. The result is faster delivery at the same craft level. Northladder is the proof: two major workstreams shipped in 30 days, embedded at enterprise scale.
Yes. Many founders run sequential sprints — a Validation Sprint first to test the concept, then a Developer Handoff Sprint once direction is confirmed. We can also chain sprints together with a brief planning session between each. Talk to us about what sequence makes sense for where you are.
A clear brief. We'll send you a short template when you book — what you're building, who it's for, what outcome you need from the sprint. We don't need lengthy documentation. One focused session at the start of day one is usually enough to align on direction.
Book a call via the link on this page or email hello@ruonalim.com with a short description of what you're building. We'll confirm fit, agree the sprint type, and lock in a start date. No lengthy sales process. Most sprints start within a week of first contact.
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