Yusuf Parak

About

My work spans product thinking, strategy, interfaces, design, systems and code, with a focus on carrying ideas from wireframe to production.

It sounds trite but it's an endlessly fun balancing act between 1) trying to prototype tools as magical to us today as Midjourney might seem to a cave painter (sisyphean struggle as it may be), and 2) building those tools in a way that captures hearts and solves for distribution.

Previously I created Pinched.io, a search and sourcing tool built on top of Twitter’s social graph for finding uniquely talented people among combined social graphs (Pioneer S22). Worked as an early employee and front-end/design engineer at Thinkst Canary, an information security company that alerts your security team when your internal network has been breached. And studied Computer Science and Informatics in college.

Golden ratio. Euclid, c. 300 BC.

Now

Designing and building interactive projects — blending creative direction, technical development and strategy for individuals and teams.

Contact

Johannesburg, South Africa
T +27 081 039 1830
EmailGitHubAre.na

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Currently in

Johannesburg

Inspirations

  • Eric Barone
  • Dan Fredinburg
  • Bret Victor
  • Jony Ive
  • Mies van der Rohe
  • Mike Matas
  • Dieter Rams
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Paul Graham
  • Jason Yuan
  • Steve Jobs
  • Naoto Fukasawa

Blogroll

  • Andy Matuschak
  • Sarah Constantine
  • Neel Nanda
  • Josh Comeau
  • Simon Sarris
  • Paul Graham
  • Henrik Karlsson
  • Marginal Revolution
  • Ben Kuhn
  • Nadia Asparouhova
  • Emil Kowalski
  • Sasha Chapin
  • Gwern
  • Maggie Appleton
  • Dan Luu

Map of Interests

The idea behind this map was inspired by Tom Critchlow, Christoph Locher, and their Maps of Inquiry.

Yusuf Parak