TJ Singh
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since August 9, 2021
TJ is a digital product designer recognized for his impeccable UI/UX expertise amassed over 12 years. With a portfolio teeming with engaging web redesigns, intuitive app interfaces, and cohesive design systems, TJ seamlessly bridges user needs with business objectives. His design prowess extends to mastering tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe. TJ's approach is research-driven, detail-oriented, and innately creative—turning client visions into pixel-perfect realities that captivate and convert.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer | Design Systems Manager
WooCommerce
- Crafted and executed UI designs focused on boosting sales conversions through improved user flows and prototyping in alignment with business objectives.
- Developed a dynamic design system that successfully maintained brand consistency, increased process efficiency, and shortened production timelines.
- Spearheaded redesign of WooCommerce's core checkout and cart blocks to boost merchant conversion rates, informed by data insights and research.
- Enhanced dispute response for WooPay merchants. Redesigned the dashboard for a clear dispute overview, improving visibility and accessibility. Explored designs to empower effective dispute management, increasing recovery chances and merchant success.
- Fostered strong relationships with developers, product managers, and marketers to ensure innovative and cohesive design solutions and stakeholder alignment.
- Transformed a partner's website to resonate with WooCommerce's standards, expediting its launch and elevating the overall user experience.
- Redesigned pivotal products' mobile interfaces, leading to a surge in mobile user engagement via a mobile-first strategy.
- Mentored junior designers, providing constructive feedback, emphasizing easy handover, and ensuring top-tier designs.
Senior Product Designer, UI/UX
Aicadium Singapore PTE. LTD.
- Created a redefined user experience and interface for the sustainable finance platform, resulting in a more modern and appealing look that significantly improved the overall user experience.
- Crafted high-fidelity mockups for new features, ensuring a seamless design and development transition. Paid close attention to detail to ensure accuracy and ease of implementation by the development team.
- Refined the v1 product interface, making it more intuitive and user-friendly for new and existing clients.
- Achieved a consistent and professional User Interface for all product features by implementing a cohesive design system in Figma.
- Transformed client needs and user stories into visually appealing UI prototypes in Figma, bringing visions to life.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to transform complex data into clear and compelling visualizations, aiding businesses in green borrowing decisions.
- Provided prompt and proficient ad-hoc design support to address various challenges and needs, contributing to the successful completion of projects.
- Successfully fostered collaboration with dev team to ensure exceptional design quality.
Senior Product Designer, UI/UX
Rental Shield LTD
- Evaluated the fintech app's current state, identifying key areas of improvement and potential opportunities.
- Conducted thorough UX research and gap analysis, pinpointing areas of friction and recommending solutions.
- Created detailed and interactive high-fidelity designs, improving the app's overall user experience and aesthetic appeal.
- Offered actionable insights based on product lifecycle stages, aiding the client in prioritizing feature releases and updates.
- Leveraged experience with startups to provide tailored recommendations, ensuring the fintech app was aligned with market needs.
- Advocated for and implemented data-driven design decisions, ensuring that every design change was backed by concrete research and analytics.
Product Designer
Numan (owned by Vir Health Limited)
- Drove business growth by applying UI/UX expertise within the product growth team, making data-driven design decisions for impactful features.
- Led the end-to-end design process—from research to intuitive workflows—ensuring seamless experiences across devices.
- Used sketching and prototyping to assess feasibility and create elegant solutions with meticulous attention to detail.
- Shaped the product strategy, working closely with product managers to align design initiatives with business goals.
- Collaborated closely with engineers, ensuring seamless implementation and successful product launches.
- Established a robust design system, utilizing thoughtful design patterns and creating reusable components and assets for efficient product development.
Design Systems Designer
WooCommerce
- Evaluated existing documentation of Figma libraries and identified issues and requirements from the design team.
- Restructured and expanded the Figma libraries by restructuring existing components and creating new components based on existing designs and shipped code.
- Provided pixel-perfect components that abide by the existing visual and user experience guidelines.
- Documented the process and helped define a governance model for the Figma libraries in collaboration with design team members.
- Communicated with involved parties to ensure alignment and moved the work towards implementation.
- Collaborated with the design team to ship high-quality design resources.
Product Designer
GrailPay
- Engaged with stakeholders to gather requirements, develop concepts, and conduct strategic product planning. Managed design projects from concept to completion.
- Led the end-to-end product and UI/UX design of business services, internal tools, and mobile web apps, including ideation, knowledge management, research, design systems, visual design, and rebranding.
- Redesigned the brand identity, including logos, typography, and color palette. Identified ways to strengthen brand identity and consistency across various media.
- Communicated effectively and documented the design direction, processes, and rationale to team members and stakeholders.
- Created and managed visual design libraries, style guides, and UI patterns.
- Balanced visual design with technical feasibility and user needs with business needs.
- Evaluated existing UX flows and established product improvement strategies.
- Designed and documented feature sets, information architecture, and wireframes for internal users and external stakeholders.
Manager of User Experience and Design
Du
- Increased monthly conversion by 98.9% for du home plans by optimizing page layout, plan card design, and simplifying the location selection process.
- Improved accuracy in the address provided by customers to 99.5%. It also increased 35% in orders placed for non-du zones and improved the dropoffs to the next page by 7%.
- Designed and tested a tool that recommends the optimal plan for users in their home plan journeys. The objective was to assess the desirability and usability of this tool before shipping it to production. It scored 82.5 (excellent) on the test.
- Created an eCommerce experience and design for the du prepaid portfolio that achieved an excellent SUS score of 83.8 in qualitative user testing. Post-launch saw an increase in conversion rates from 0.42% to 31% and a lower bounce rate.
- Led initiatives to define email design systems and guidelines applying the mobile-first approach. Compared to 2019, in 2020, we saw a 26% increase in unique open rate, a 167% increase in unique clicks, and a 700% increase in revenue.
- Created universal and federated libraries in Sketch for du's design system to support our teams of designers and developers across our company in creating best-in-class digital products and experiences.
- Drove successful launch of 50+ device launches, including big ones like Apple and Samsung, by creating digital assets in time and on-brand that complying with partner's guidelines. Helped du to be named "Fastest partner to launch Apple products."
- Collaborated with the PO on the creation of the region's first telco brand store on Amazon. The project was stalled when the agency delivered subpar work, so we created new designs from scratch for a successful launch.
- Influenced design team members to lean on data more than ever. Even in design critique sessions that are normally designer-focused forums, designers were not hesitant to open up dashboards and engage.
Senior UX/UI Designer
YouGotaGift.com
- Pioneered user-centered design principles throughout the company and advocating for simple and intuitive user interfaces.
- Created a new branding system and logo for the organization, including a large library of reusable production art, web banners, and other collateral. Created strong design concept layouts for a variety of projects.
- Gathered user data through methods such as analytics reporting, task analysis, and participatory design techniques and utilized that data to drive design decisions.
- Defined information architecture and interaction design for several complex web applications using page and user flow diagrams, site maps, and interactive wireframes. Tested designs using low- and/or high-fidelity prototypes.
- Conceptualize, design, and develop marketing pages and custom features of our eCommerce platform directly contributed to increased revenue year over year.
- Designed custom email templates for monthly newsletters and marketing emails, improving the click-through rate.
- Designed adaptive layouts to maintain a consistent user experience across the product.
- Worked closely with the product team in an Agile workflow to design visually compelling and highly usable web applications for a SaaS B2B, B2C, and B2B2C gifting solution that fortune multiple companies all around the UAE.
- Defined business requirements by determining the success metrics and identifying the target demographic, and understanding the project's objective and goals.
Senior UX/UI Designer
Laimoon
- Established Laimoon as a fresh, unique, and powerful brand through visual communication from digital to print media.
- Collaborated with stakeholders and developers to create innovative and robust solutions for professionals to find professional courses and fill job openings.
- Defined features and common experiences, using established as well as entirely new paradigms.
- Created high-impact user-centered IAs, experiences, and interfaces with strong emotional appeal, sophisticated production values, and intuitive navigation to maximize user engagement and cement powerful brand identities.
- Adapted designs to mobile devices at a stage that redefined the market landscape. Displaced competitors by anticipating user needs by remaining ahead of the curve; delivered interactive device site that helped capture the leading market position.
- Researched, strategized, and launched UX improvements that increased Laimoon’s revenue.
- Designed artworks for marketing communications, including social media, print ad campaigns, stickers, posters, postcards, and brochures.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia and Design
Himalayan University - Itanagar, India
Diploma in Graphics and Animation
MAAC - India
Certifications
Digital Transformation for Leaders: The ROI of Digital Transformation
Udemy
Leadership Sins
Udemy
Professional Scrum Product Owner I
Scrum.org
Skills
Tools
Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe, Adobe CC, InVision, Miro, InVision App, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Lightroom, 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Photo Editors, Craft Manager, Lookback, Maze, FigJam, UI Grid
Industry Expertise
Creative Tech, Hospitality, Health & Wellness, Retail & Wholesale, Consumer Products
Platforms
iOS, Mobile, Web, Magento, WordPress, WooCommerce
Other
Design Systems, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile App Design, Brand Design, Stakeholder Management, Graphic Design, Communication, Design, Rapid Prototyping, Wireframing, Dashboards, App UI, App UX, Branding, Artwork, Emailers, Newsletters, B2B, B2C, Web Marketing, Graphics, Advertising Design, Component Libraries, Atomic Design, eCommerce, App Design, Startups, Agile, Customer Experience, White Labeling, Redesign, Logo Design, Typography, Brand Guidelines, Mockups, Sales Funnel, Conversion, UX Flows, Performance Improvement, Product Design, Tablet UX, Tablet UI, User Journeys, User Flows, Mobile Web Design, Infographs, Optimization, Results-focused Design, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Visual Design, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Brand Identity, Responsive, Responsive Design, Responsive Web Apps, Web App Design, Usability, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Marketing Design, Web Design, Mobile Design, Web UI, Data Visualization, Data-informed Visual Design, SaaS Design, A/B Testing, Web App UX, Web App UI, Prototyping, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Mobile App UI, Dashboard Design, Websites, Website Redesign, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Iterative Design, Product Strategy, Information Architecture (IA), Social Networks, Design Libraries, eCommerce UX, eCommerce UI, UI Components, Web Components, Style Guides, System Design, UX Wireframes, Layout Design, Landing Page Design, iOS UX Design, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Best Practices in Design, Scrum, eCommerce Design, Web UI Design, UX Assessment, Design Reviews, Web UX Design, UX Analysis, Design Leadership, User Personas, UX Audits, Design Consultation, Enterprise, Marketplace Design, Heuristic Analysis, Print Design, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Design Thinking, Social Media, Leadership, Digital Transformation, Modular, Scalable Architecture, Presentations, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Web Research, Analysis, User Research, Content Management Systems (CMS), User Journey Maps, Workflow, Journey Mapping, SaaS, Customer Journeys, Content Strategy, Fintech, Interaction Design (IxD), Funnel Optimization, Maps, Discovery Workshops, iOS App Design, Social Media Design, Ad Design, Collateral Design, Animation, Video Editing, B2B2C, Stationery Design, Analytics, Lifestyle, Project Management, Shopify API, Payment APIs, Online Payments, Software as a Service (SaaS), UI Style Guides, Landing Pages, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Web UX, Subscriptions, Web Dashboards, Checkout, Themes, UI Libraries, Low-fidelity Mockups, Interactive UI, Interactive UX, UI Prototyping, UX Prototyping, User Feedback, Testing, Research, Documentation, Desktop Web Design, Responsive Layout, Time Management, Proactive, UX Research, Rentals, Rental Management, Collaboration, Usability Testing, User Interviews, High-fidelity Mockups, Tablet Design, User Experience Design, Business to Business (B2B), Business Solutions, Sustainability, User Self-service, Mobile Prototypes, Growth, Geolocation, Geolocation Detection, User Testing, Stakeholder Interviews, Qualitative Reports, UX Testing, UI Testing, Libraries, Arabic Typography, Guidelines, Pitch Decks, Heuristics, Heuristic Review, Rewards, Loyalty Programs, Landing Page Optimization, Information Design, Digital Payments, Rebranding, Iconography, UX Leadership, UI Design Standards & Best Practices, Interviews, Mobile Payments, WooCommerce API, WordPress Design, WordPress Themes, Dark UIs
Experience
- UX Design - 15 years
- UI Design - 15 years
- eCommerce Design - 12 years
- Product Design - 12 years
- Mobile App Design - 10 years
- Brand Design - 10 years
- Figma - 6 years
- Design Systems - 6 years
Tools
- Figma
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