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

Prototypes

  • Reflective Button2026
  • Generative Eye Blink2025
  • Radial Menu2023
  • The name Neuesuf in large white letters on a blue page, with a settings panel open for weight, size, tracking and alignment.
    The name Neuesuf in large white letters on a blue page.
    A dark grid of accented letters with a large ß in a panel over it.
    The same grid with a large Ł in the panel.
    A line of text in a monospaced style on blue, under a paragraph about the typeface.
    A light page with the alphabet in upper and lower case and a paragraph about the typeface.
    The alphabet in an italic style on a light page.
  • Reflective Three.js Orb2026
  • Alex Pereira Animation2025
  • Finger Painter2024
  • ASCII Pattern Generator2025
  • Orb Manipulator2024
  • iOS Pull Down Menu2026
  • AE Liquid Glass Play2024
  • Three Graces2022

Yusuf Parak