
Irfaan Amejee
Senior Product Designer
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Mobility: London
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
About me
Intro
Seasoned Senior Product Designer with 8+ years of experience delivering enterprise B2B and B2B2C SaaS solutions, primarily within the financial services sector. Proven track record of scaling products from mid-sized platforms to enterprise-grade systems by improving usability, simplifying complex workflows, and aligning design with business objectives. Focused on creating intuitive, data-driven experiences and have extensive experience building and maintaining scalable design systems to ensure consistency and efficiency across large product ecosystems. Experienced in applying AI tooling to accelerate design workflows and validate ideas at scale.
Work experience
Senior Product Designer
Solidatus
Jun 2022 - Present
4 years 5 months
London, UK
– Supported the development of AI features from start-finish to improve customer speed in their workflow. AI features reduced customer time on painful tasks by 80-90%. – Synthesized user research into UX artefacts(personas, journey maps) and prioritized recommendations that informed product roadmap decisions and future vision which received overwhelming positive response. – Conducted multiple user feedback sessions to validate customers needs, requirements and pain points which established strong relationships that lead to contract expansion and renewals. – Redesigned the core data interface (Data map) to improve visual hierarchy and cognitive load, enabling business users (analysts) to extract insights from massive datasets (1M+ entities) with greater speed and ease. – Created interactive prototypes for usability testing and painting the larger picture demonstrating the business's future from a product perspective. – Built and maintained design system/component library, resulting in reduced inconsistent UI patterns across the application, accessibility conformity and accelerated development for the front-end team.
Senior CX/UX Designer
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting
Feb 2020 - May 2022
2 years 4 months
London, UK
– Conducted user interviews and workshops, converted insights into actionable design outputs which resulted in improved task completion and usability. – Created streamlined workflows that allowed customers to migrate client lists from a legacy system, reducing manual effort and significantly improving efficiency by 30%. – Collaborated with our global design team to enhance global navigation across our B2B SaaS platform, which improved UX, saved time and gave users' ability to switch between sub-applications within the product efficiently. – Designed concepts to integrate with a third-party application for metric consumption, supporting access to business-critical insights and decision-making that was shared with product, sales and customer success teams. – Worked with the design systems team to evolve the UI component library based on user feedback and scenarios, helping users make quicker decisions during their experience. – Led migration of design system from Sketch to Figma, accelerating prototype creation and enabling real-time team collaboration.
Multi-disciplinary designer
Prodesien
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
2 years 6 months
– Focused on expanding client business potential by strengthening their brand presence and establishing a clear digital identity. – Delivered Branding, Graphic design, and Logo design services, supported by business consultation to help clients position themselves more effectively online. – Produced prototypes for testing and experimented on multiple tools such as: Adobe XD, Illustrator, other tools in Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch and Figma. – Mapped user journeys to understand customers workflow and process, carried out UI audits, and created content to support design delivery. – Worked in a Waterfall environment while also planning sprints to keep projects organised and moving forward efficiently.
Digital Designer
Mirodo/SATS Companion
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
1 year 6 months
London, UK
– Designed high-quality graphics and contributed to UX/UI content development for an online education platform, improving the learning experience for primary school students. – Created engaging mock test interfaces for Mathematics and English, helping prepare students more effectively for examinations. – Supported the development of UI components, including iconography, to strengthen the clarity, consistency, and overall usability of the interface.
Education
Linux FoundationX / edx
Continuous development, Data and AI Fundamentals
2025 - 2025
1 month
The Fountain Institute
Continuous development, Design strategy
2024 - 2024
1 month
General assembly of UI/UX
Continuous development, User experience and interface
2020 - 2020
1 month
Goldsmiths University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Design Technology
2015 - 2016
1 year 1 month
University of East London
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Product Design
2011 - 2014
3 years 1 month
Kingston College
Diploma, 3D/Product Design
2008 - 2011
3 years 1 month