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From Maria Valiji

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Maria Valiji
Founder, Hue & Heal
London
For Ramy Elnagar
Founder, White Mirror
May 2026

Dear Ramy,

You messaged me on LinkedIn months ago asking for my portfolio. I only found it last week, between airport WiFi and bad inbox habits. The silence is the one thing here that needs an apology, and you have it.

Backing up. I was at HIX in November, in the front row, when you sat on the longevity panel. I had not heard of you. I had not heard of White Mirror. I walked in cold.

A few minutes in I started searching White Mirror on my phone. Quietly, because something specific was happening, and I wanted to read enough to be sure.

Ramy on the longevity panel at HIX, November 2025
HIX The panel, before we spoke

The vision I have been writing on my own walls for the last eighteen months was already on yours. A studio with a lab. Brand work tightly held. Taste in clients you would only choose if you really meant it. Sensate and Therme were already on my own list of who I wanted to work with. They were already on yours.

We spoke after the panel. I came up to tell you how brilliantly you had spoken, and that it was the best panel of the day. From there we got onto wellness innovation. Education as a category nobody has designed for properly. The other pillars left unwritten.

A short context on me, in case any of it has dropped out of memory. Over a decade leading design at Sky, across NOW, Peacock, Showtime, Showmax. Sales marketplaces that delivered multi-million revenue. Design culture that travelled across markets. The behavioural design that decides whether a person comes back tomorrow.

I left to start Hue & Heal. A studio bringing entertainment-grade rigour to wellness. Most wellness design is decoration. Mine is the opposite. Behavioural science under every choice. A lab to test it. The reason I picked up your name that day is because we are building toward the same thing.

I want to find a way to work together. The shape is open.

Creative strategy alongside you on the harder pitches. Consulting on the behavioural science and design culture side. Contract on specific projects. UX/UI craft on the work you have been outsourcing, since that is the part of this work I have done the most of. Whatever fits the conversation we end up having.

Write back to me. The portfolio is here.

Yours, Maria.
P.S.

A clip of your panel that day. The room we started in.