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Kulsum

Issue 01  ·  The Story

About

Designing brands
people remember.
Building products
people use.
Growing companies
people trust.

Brand, Design & Growth Consultant, currently working with Tylt. Designer, strategist, builder, in that order.

Kulsum Mohammed Portrait: Kulsum Mohammed

In her own words

I like being the person founders call when a product is starting to come together, but the story around it hasn't quite caught up yet.

Most people know me as a designer. That's where I started.

But somewhere along the way, I became more interested in everything happening around the design.

Why does one product instantly make sense while another loses you in thirty seconds?

Why do some brands feel obvious while others need three paragraphs to explain themselves?

Why do some beautiful websites still fail to convert?

Those questions slowly pulled me into product thinking, positioning, websites, marketing and growth.

Today my work rarely stays inside one box. I might redesign a landing page, rewrite the messaging, improve the onboarding, create a launch strategy, build the website, design the sales deck, and help the founders tell the story.

To me, those aren't separate projects. They're all different ways of solving the same problem. Helping people understand why a product matters.

6+
Years creating brands, products and campaigns
40+
Brands built from scratch or rebuilt from the ground up
100K+
Users acquired across products I've worked on
4
Disciplines practiced at the same time
Brand Product Growth Motion

How I got here.

2021

Founder

Creative Vision Studios

Started taking on freelance design work here, still running today, alongside everything else. This is where I first learned that good design is less about making something beautiful and more about making someone understand something.

2023

Graphic Designer

Basis

My introduction to fintech. Nine months learning how much trust gets built, or broken, through small design decisions in a regulated space.

2023–25

VP of Brand, Design & Marketing

TLX Labs

Owned brand, product and marketing for two products under one company. Built Tylt's identity and website from zero to a live payments app doing $25K in daily transactions within two months. Then did the same for TradingLeagues, taking it to 100,000+ signups and $2M in annual recurring revenue.

2026

Brand, Design & Growth Consultant

TLX Labs

Back working closely with the Tylt team, this time as a consultant, shaping brand, product communication and growth strategy, and leaning further into AI assisted workflows across design, content and the website itself.

Now

Still building.

The next chapter

Tylt, freelance work through Creative Vision Studios, and a growing interest in what comes next. If you're building something and think I might be able to help, I'd love to hear about it.

What I believe.

Five things I keep coming back to, regardless of the project.

Beyond the Work.

Question I Keep Coming Back To

Why do some products feel obvious while others need explaining?

Favourite Kind Of Project

The ones where brand, product and growth all have to come together from day one.

Current Experiment

Using AI to build products faster without making them feel less human.

Something I Notice

Packaging, onboarding flows, restaurant menus, airport signs. Good design hides in everyday things.

How I Learn

I rarely finish courses. I build things until they work.

Current Rabbit Hole

Stablecoins, AI agents and why enterprise software still feels harder than it needs to.

Things that are probably true

My notes app has more product ideas in it than grocery lists.

I notice a confusing onboarding flow almost immediately.

I almost always sketch before I open Figma.

I'm usually testing a new AI tool every week.

I spend far too much time studying websites I admire.

Most of my LinkedIn posts start as something I noticed while using a product.

Personal Manifesto

Everything is
connected.

The brand  ·  The website  ·  The product  ·  The launch  ·  The story

Most companies treat them like separate projects. I don't.

Hello.

The Next Chapter

If you're building something meaningful, I'd love to hear about it.

I'm always open to conversations about interesting problems, whether that's a full time role, a freelance project, or just a good brief.