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SAYEED A. - Remote product UI/UX designer

SAYEED A.

Based in: 🇮🇳 India
Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

About

Senior Product Designer with 10 years of end-to-end product design experience across fintech, travel tech, enterprise SaaS, AI products, and consumer apps. Founded Wilson Wings, a 25-person design studio that delivered 150+ digital products across 15 countries for clients including Volkswagen, L&T, and Aditya Birla. Built and shipped Travlo, a self-funded AI travel platform with 10,000+ downloads, 4.5★ rating, and 70–80% checkout completion. Led BranchX neobanking redesign from 28% to 72% onboarding completion, contributing to a $5M pre-Series A round. Expert in design systems, complex user journeys, research-driven UX, and design-to-dev collaboration. Toptal Top 3% verified globally.

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer, Top 3% Global Talent
Toptal | Aug 2023 - Present
HTML/CSS
Product design
UX/UI Design
Design Systems

Selected through rigorous 5-stage global screening with an under 3% acceptance rate. Baya Systems (US): designed real-time data visualisation UI for cache infrastructure monitoring, including dashboards, knowledge graphs, and alert systems; implemented full style guide in HTML/CSS/JS. Confetti Studio: designed a gaming payment portal and native iOS/Android app flows with multi-currency UX. Life SOULutions: redesigned EdTech learning platform with adaptive progress tracking and gamified rewards; improved session completion by 38%.

Founder and Lead Product Designer
Travlo — AI Travel Platform | Jan 2022 - Present
HTML/CSS
Product design
Information Architecture
User Research
UX/UI Design
Design Systems

Designed full product from 0 to 1: information architecture, flight, hotel, and bus booking flows, AI trip planning with conversational agent (Bobo), and post-booking experience. Conducted 40+ user research interviews; simplified onboarding from 8 steps to 4, improving trip creation rate from 20% to 70%. Designed round-trip SSR screens (seat, meal, baggage selection) and fare transparency system, adapting to airline-specific rules; reduced booking errors by 60%. Achieved 70–80% checkout completion against a 40–60% OTA industry average; 10,000+ downloads, 4.5★ rating.

Projects

branchX | Neo Banking App for the Underbanked Sector
2023
UI design
Visual design
User Research
Figma
Web App UI
Web UI design
UX design
branchX is a financial institution that offers multiple banking solutions in India and across the Middle East. The primary branchX product is Raja Rani duo cards for families. PROJECT SCOPE The goal was to build multiple platforms, including a banking app with transacting, pay bills, and rewards features, a gold investment app, a payroll app, a sales app, and an agent app. The scope also included brand identity design, welcome kit design, workspace branding, and collateral design. ROLE Moodboards, branding, UX strategy, and UI/UX design PHASES • Mood boards: three style guides—mild, medium, and spicy • Define: competitor's product audit, user interviews, user personas, and customer journeys • Ideate: information architecture with SiteMap, user flows, LFDs, and UX workshop 1.0 • Design: MFDs, UX copy, UX workshop 2.0, HFDs, and prototypes • Test: usability testing and iterations • Handoff: design system, components, UI design, and animations
CorpCare | Investment App for Corporates and HNI's
2024
UI design
Web Design
Mobile UI
Visual design
Usability testing
User Research
UX/UI Design
Design Systems
Web App UI
UX design
CorpCare is India’s first and only all-in-one corporate treasury and wealth management platform. PROJECT SCOPE The goal was to build a platform where corporates and HNIs can easily plan their investment in mutual funds, fixed deposits, or bonds, and track all of them in a single dashboard. The final product included a corporate app, an individual app, an RM app, and an admin app. ROLE Moodboards, UX strategy, and UI/UX design PHASES • Moodboards: three style guides—mild, medium, and spicy • Define: user interviews, user personas, and customer journeys • Ideate: information architecture with SiteMap, user flows, LFDs, and UX workshop 1.0 • Design: MFDs, UX copy, UX workshop 2.0, HFDs, and prototypes • Test: usability testing and iterations • Handoff: design system, components, and UI design

Education

VTU, Karnataka
Bachelor's degree・Mechanical Engineering
Aug 2013 - Jul 2017