Product designer who leads teams from research to MVP.

Marie Françoise Cabibihan

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Work

R42 Group · TrendAds

Co-built TrendAds, an AI ad generator that turns live trends into ready-to-post campaigns. I designed its 6-step guided flow and positioned it against competitors including Canva and AdCreative.ai.

Presented at R42 Demo Day

−76%annual hosting cost

Espresso Hub

Designed a responsive website in Figma for a Doha café, also used as its in-store menu, and moved hosting to local servers with a developer.

QAR 2,100 → 500 a year; a QAR 1,000 order in launch week

+30%event RSVPs

Roboticscool

Created promotional materials, photography, and a logo animation shown at the International Conference on Social Robotics. Taught CAD, programming, and robot building to grades 4–6.

+10% event attendance

~5days to onboard and deliver

FINRA

Joined in the final phase of an industry-sponsored project, got up to speed on the brief and its constraints, and worked through unclear requirements with designers from other disciplines to deliver an internal campaign.

Delivered for a financial regulator on a shortened timeline

+5%projected daily active users

Duolingo email strategy

Segmented users by learning frequency and motivation, rewrote emails without guilt-based messaging, and designed an A/B test of tone and frequency.

Projected a lift of at least 5% in DAU engagement and fewer opt-outs

Habit Craft

Interviewed students testing the startup's WhatsApp MVP (25 members across 6 habit communities) using the GRAMS framework, and returned to 9 of them after 3–5 weeks of use.

Turned the findings into 2 personas and a behavior model with the founder

Passio GO! redesign

Redesigned the bus tracking flow so riders can read arrival times at a glance, and added early arrival alerts.

Clearer arrival times across every route

Playground

Claw machine. Blender, modeled and lit.
Motion design 03. After Effects final.
Kinetic type. After Effects.
Roboticscool. Promo animation.

I turn user research into clear product decisions.

Before SCAD, I studied interaction design at Harbour Space University, with coursework in consumer behavior, content strategy, email marketing, branding, 3D and motion design, and front-end development.

I've led two five-person teams as product design manager and project manager, owning timelines, scope, and research while designing core flows. My motion minor shapes how I present work, often as short animated walkthroughs.

  • 2026R42 Group · AI & GTM Fellow
  • 2025 – 2029SCAD · BFA User Experience Design, Minor in Motion Graphics
  • 2024 – 2025Harbour Space University · Interaction Design
  • 2025Espresso Hub · Contract Designer
  • 2023 – 2024Roboticscool · Design & Robotics Support

Research

User interviews, surveys, segmentation, GRAMS framework, usability testing, heuristic evaluation

Product

Feature scoping, Agile sprints, team leadership, A/B test design, AI-enabled product concepts

Design

Figma, prototyping, responsive design, design systems

Motion & 3D

After Effects, Blender, DaVinci Resolve

Technical

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SwiftUI