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INDEPENDENT DESIGNER & DEVELOPER · ADDIS ABABA
Tibebu
I design the interface.
I build the experience.
I work across visual design, web development, and AI-powered products. My portfolio documents the systems I’m building, the decisions behind them, and the craft I’m developing with every project.
Observe carefully · Design with intent · Engineer thoughtfully · Improve continuously
I’m an independent designer and developer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, building at the intersection of visual communication and software.
I learn by making. That means taking ideas from rough structure to interface, from interface to implementation, and from a first working version through iteration. My work includes AI products, social platforms, website experiences, and graphic design.
I care about clear thinking, useful systems, strong visual hierarchy, and the details that make a product coherent. This portfolio is a record of real work in progress—not a list of titles or claims without evidence.
Let’s connect →Explore the disciplines that shape the kind of digital work I’m interested in. Select a field to see its roles and how each connects to the wider process.
Research, structure, visual systems, and interaction design come together to make products useful, understandable, and engaging.
Studies user needs, behavior, and problems.
01 / 06These are related but distinct professions. A single project may involve several of them, usually across a team.
A closer look at the products, platforms, and websites I have worked on. Each entry distinguishes shipped work from concepts and active builds.
A portfolio should show more than a finished screen. Explore the problem space, the system I worked on, and the next engineering questions for three projects.
The project grew from a simple conversational interface into a broader AI application. The challenge was to connect model access, useful tools, documents, image understanding, and memory into one coherent product experience.
A chat interface alone is not a complete assistant. It needs context, useful capabilities, and a dependable way to preserve information between sessions.
An application with configurable AI providers, web search, document and image input, and persistent memory backed by PostgreSQL.
Connecting the user experience to provider configuration, server-side features, and persistent data rather than treating each capability as an isolated demo.
How should memory be evaluated? How can retrieval be made transparent? What test suite would protect tool use, provider failures, and long conversations?
No invented performance metrics. These are project notes and engineering questions, not claims of production scale or independently audited results.
Seventeen visual works exploring composition, typography, art direction, and communication. Each piece is shown as created and opens at full size.
I’m building a broad foundation across design, development, content, and delivery. These are areas of practice and growth—not claims of senior-level expertise.
Canva, poster design, social media graphics, typography, layout, color, and visual hierarchy.
Interface layouts, responsive design, usability, user flows, wireframes, and content structure.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, front-end builds, back-end fundamentals, and full-stack experiments.
Exploring content-managed websites, on-page SEO, search-friendly structure, and content strategy.
Basic workflow automation, GitHub, deployment workflows, hosting, and development environments.
Checking responsive layouts, testing core flows, organizing tasks, and communicating progress.
Skill bars are a visual snapshot of my current learning stage, not formal test scores.
I’m interested in focused collaborations where design and technology solve a defined problem. Scope, capabilities, and delivery expectations are discussed clearly before work begins.
Simple websitesClear, responsive sites for people and small businesses.
↗Website improvementsContent, layout, and usability updates.
↗Basic workflow automationConnecting repetitive steps across everyday tools.
↗AI-assisted digital solutionsPractical experiments with AI tools and workflows.
↗These are the kinds of projects I’m preparing to take on; scope and readiness are discussed honestly before any work begins.
Have a design, website, or digital project in mind? Let’s discuss the goal, scope, and right approach.
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