Pleurat Shala

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Pleurat Shala

Product designer and AI product builder, Pristina, Kosovo.

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Summary

Pleurat Shala is a product designer and AI product builder based in Pristina, Kosovo, designing digital products since 2015.

Pleurat Shala works end to end — research, brand, design systems, UX/UI and AI workflows — taking products from a first brief to launch for startups and global companies, including Santander UK, Hoopit AI, Toyota and Gjirafa.

Pleurat Shala also builds AI-native products: Sena, a design system built with eleven AI agents; AI Journey, an AI analytics product built solo; and AI Realtime Renamer, a Figma plugin.

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At a glance

Name
Pleurat Shala
Role
Product designer and AI product builder
Based in
Pristina, Kosovo
Time zone
CET (UTC+1)
Designing since
2015
Disciplines
Product design, Systems, AI
Email
hello@pleurat.com
Response time
Within 24 hours
Website
pleurat.com
Profiles
Awwwards · Dribbble · LinkedIn · ThemeForest
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In numbers

  • 10+Years designing
  • 150+Websites designed
  • 50+Products shipped
  • 10+Industries workd
  • 10+ years

    Product Design

    Most aspects of design and business, end-to-end, while shipping a product.

  • 3+ years

    AI Workflow

    The loop between people and agents — prompts, tools and guardrails that ship.

  • 8+ years

    Design Systems

    Systems that grow with the team and the product — tokens, components, docs.

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Experience

Companies and products Pleurat Shala has designed for, with the role held at each.

  • Senior Product Designer

    Hoopit AI

    Led design for AI-powered relationship intelligence platform for teams.

  • Senior Product Designer

    Santander UK

    Designed UX banking flows used by millions of customers.

  • Lead Product Designer

    Appello

    Led discovery for a care-tech mobile app, defining MVP scope.

  • Brand & Interface

    Toyota

    Product and brand interface work for a global automotive name.

  • UI / Product Designer

    Gjirafa

    Designed consumer products for the region’s largest tech company.

  • Frontend Developer & Author

    ThemeForest

    Built and sold website templates to 730+ happy clients.

  • Product Designer

    Nacew

    Building and designing AI-powered products for millions of users.

  • Product Designer

    FourTwoThree

    Designed a platform for measuring and reporting carbon footprints.

  • Product Designer

    Otee

    An online laundry ecosystem — five surfaces on one design system.

  • Design & AI Workflows

    AI Journey

    Ongoing experiments in designing and building alongside agents.

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Case studies

MindPath

MindPath · Ireland · 2025 · Web · App · Brand

An online mental-health service for adult ADHD & autism assessment — built from a name and a mission.

Role: UX/UI + Brand. Tools: Figma & FigJam.

  • 10~Daily ADHD pre-assessments from day one
  • 10+Full assessments in month one
  • 5/5Early patient reviews
  • Brand, website and web app shipped from scratch.
  • Daily ADHD pre-assessments since launch.
  • Five-star early patient reviews.
  • Live and serving patients at mindpath.ie.

Live: mindpath.ie

Otee

Otee · 2025–26 · Web · App · Kiosk

A complete online laundry platform — five surfaces, one design system.

Role: Sole UX/UI Designer. Tools: Figma & FigJam.

  • 5Connected surfaces
  • 3Mobile apps
  • 1Unified design system
  • Three mobile apps for three users.
  • Marketing site with e-commerce.
  • POS-grade kiosk for every device.

Appello

Appello · 2025 · Mobile · Android

A mobile app that lets field-based responders provide assistance wherever it is needed.

Role: Product Designer. Tools: Figma.

  • Responder-first mobile flows.
  • Android-ready component set.
  • Built for speed in the field.

ValueHut

ValueHut · 2025 · Web · Figma

An agile management consultancy helping organisations transform into networks of interconnected teams.

Role: Web & UI Designer. Tools: Figma.

  • A credible, modern consultancy site.
  • Reusable Figma design system.
  • Clear narrative for a complex service.

Codex

Gjirafa, Inc. · 2023–24 · SaaS · Headless CMS

A fully headless CMS rebuilt for publisher speed and simpler workflows.

Role: Lead Product Designer. Tools: Figma & Miro.

  • 30%Faster article creation
  • 20+People in the process
  • 100%Positive user feedback
  • 30% faster article-creation time.
  • A fresh, consistent design system.
  • 100% positive feedback from active users.

AI Journey

Own product · 2026 · SaaS · AI product

An AI analyst for marketing teams — it watches every visitor journey, explains in plain language why people leave, suggests one specific fix, and later checks whether the fix actually worked. Designed, built and shipped by one person, with AI as the engineering team.

Role: Design, product & engineering — solo. Tools: Claude Code · Figma.

  • 6Weeks from first commit to product
  • 1Designer — no engineering team
  • ~$0.02Cost of a typical AI action
  • A production SaaS, designed and built solo in six weeks.
  • Seven AI features on one shared caller, at flat cost.
  • An AI working method that survives contact with real customers.
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AI products

Sena

Q1 2026 · Active

A design system built with AI end to end, turned into a production ReactJS library and a documentation hub. Eleven agents, one command.

A design system that an agent can build against — so a component request becomes a component, not a ticket.

  • 11agents
  • 38components
  • 4brand modes
  • 1.4sper build

Built with Figma Variables, Claude, MCP, React + TS, Style Dictionary and npm.

AI Realtime Renamer

2026 · Plugin

A Figma plugin that watches the document as you design and renames frames the moment they appear — so Frame 12 and Group 5 never reach a handoff.

Layer names that are already right when you hand off — because the file names itself while you work, not afterwards.

  • 38layers a session
  • 0interruptions
  • ~40msper rename
  • 2modes

Built with Figma Plugin API, Claude Haiku, Local rules and TypeScript.

AI Journey

2026 · Active

An analytics tool that does not just show that visitors leave — it explains why in plain language, suggests one specific fix, and later checks whether the fix worked.

Analytics that says why, not just what — one specific fix per problem, then a verdict on whether it worked.

  • 7AI features
  • ~$0.02per action
  • 6weeks solo
  • 1designer

Built with PostHog, Claude, Next.js, Supabase and Vercel.

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Website themes

Complete website themes designed and built by Pleurat Shala. Each theme is designed in Figma and delivered in WordPress (Elementor), Webflow, React and HTML versions, with Markdown context files that make it AI-ready, and AI was used throughout its design and development. The themes are listed at pleurat.com/themes.

Ledger

Consulting & professional services · themeforest.net

Ledger is a consulting & professional services website theme by Pleurat Shala: 3+ homepages, 50+ layouts, light & dark.

Sena

Mental health & wellness · plleki.com

Sena is a mental health & wellness website theme by Pleurat Shala: 4 homepages, 80+ layouts, light & dark.

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How Pleurat Shala works with AI

  • Automation

    Task Automation

  • Research

    Research

    Competitor analysis, interview synthesis, UX patterns — the groundwork, in a fraction of the usual time.

  • Analysis

    Analysis & Decision Making

    Breaking down requirements, mapping flows, finding edge cases and challenging assumptions before design starts.

  • Development

    Code & Development

    React, Tailwind, production-ready components. Shortens the gap between design and implementation.

  • Prototyping

    Fast Prototyping

    Interactive prototypes and lightweight MVPs instead of static mockups — validated before engineering time is spent.

  • Testing

    Testing & Validation

    Accessibility reviews, UX audits, visual consistency and design QA, before issues reach users.

  • Agents

    MCPs & AI Agents

    Figma, Claude, Cursor, GitHub and custom MCP servers in one loop, sharing context instead of working in isolation.

  • Apps

    Building real world apps

    It's not just vibe coding. It's systems thinking, architecture, and scalability.

Tools used daily: Claude, Figma, Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, OpenAI, Meta, Grok, GitHub and Tailwind.

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Work under NDA

Further work for these clients is under non-disclosure; the work itself is not published.

  • Under NDA

    Santander UK

    Financial support banking app — OneApp.

  • Under NDA

    Hoopit AI

    AI-powered relationship intelligence platform for teams.

  • Under NDA

    FourTwoThree

    Carbon footprint calculations for small and large corporations.

  • Under NDA

    Toyota

    Brand design consistency in Figma assets.

  • Under NDA

    DHFPG

    University website with 100+ pages.

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Writing

The Product Designer's Mind

E-book · by Pleurat Shala

An e-book that helps you solve UX/UI problems through a product designer’s mindset — the workflow, the decisions inside it, and where AI sits in the work as it is actually done.

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Questions and answers

Who is Pleurat Shala?

Pleurat Shala is a product designer and AI product builder based in Pristina, Kosovo, designing digital products since 2015. Pleurat Shala works end to end — research, brand, design systems, UX/UI and AI workflows — taking products from a first brief to launch for startups and global companies, including Santander UK, Hoopit AI, Toyota and Gjirafa. Pleurat Shala also builds AI-native products: Sena, a design system built with eleven AI agents; AI Journey, an AI analytics product built solo; and AI Realtime Renamer, a Figma plugin.

Where is Pleurat Shala based?

Pleurat Shala is based in Pristina, Kosovo, and works with teams everywhere, on Central European Time.

What does Pleurat Shala specialise in?

Pleurat Shala specialises in product design (10+ years), AI workflow (3+ years) and design systems (8+ years).

Which companies has Pleurat Shala worked with?

Pleurat Shala has worked with Hoopit AI (Senior Product Designer), Santander UK (Senior Product Designer), Appello (Lead Product Designer), Toyota (Brand & Interface), Gjirafa (UI / Product Designer), ThemeForest (Frontend Developer & Author), Nacew (Product Designer), FourTwoThree (Product Designer), Otee (Product Designer) and AI Journey (Design & AI Workflows).

What are Pleurat Shala’s best-known projects?

Pleurat Shala’s case studies include MindPath — An online mental-health service for adult ADHD & autism assessment — built from a name and a mission, Otee — A complete online laundry platform — five surfaces, one design system, Appello — A mobile app that lets field-based responders provide assistance wherever it is needed, ValueHut — An agile management consultancy helping organisations transform into networks of interconnected teams, Codex — A fully headless CMS rebuilt for publisher speed and simpler workflows and AI Journey — An AI analyst for marketing teams — it watches every visitor journey, explains in plain language why people leave, suggests one specific fix, and later checks whether the fix actually worked. Designed, built and shipped by one person, with AI as the engineering team.

What has Pleurat Shala built with AI?

Sena (Q1 2026): A design system built with AI end to end, turned into a production ReactJS library and a documentation hub. Eleven agents, one command. AI Realtime Renamer (2026): A Figma plugin that watches the document as you design and renames frames the moment they appear — so Frame 12 and Group 5 never reach a handoff. AI Journey (2026): An analytics tool that does not just show that visitors leave — it explains why in plain language, suggests one specific fix, and later checks whether the fix worked.

What website themes has Pleurat Shala made?

Pleurat Shala has designed and built Ledger, a consulting & professional services theme and Sena, a mental health & wellness theme. Each theme is designed in Figma and delivered in WordPress (Elementor), Webflow, React and HTML versions, with Markdown context files that make it AI-ready, and AI was used throughout its design and development.

Which tools does Pleurat Shala use?

Pleurat Shala works daily with Claude, Figma, Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, OpenAI, Meta, Grok, GitHub and Tailwind.

Has Pleurat Shala written a book?

Yes. Pleurat Shala wrote “The Product Designer's Mind”, an e-book that helps you solve UX/UI problems through a product designer’s mindset — the workflow, the decisions inside it, and where AI sits in the work as it is actually done. It is available at https://pleurat.gumroad.com/l/ebook.

How can I contact Pleurat Shala?

Email hello@pleurat.com — replies usually arrive within 24 hours. There is also a contact page at https://www.pleurat.com/contact.