Masood Ali · Senior Product Designer 7+ years

I make sense of
complex things.

Then I make them work.

I turn ambiguous problems into clear, useful digital experiences — across B2B SaaS, enterprise, healthcare and AI.

Masood Ali wearing glasses and a striped polo shirt

02 / From ambiguity to action

I turn messy problems
into working products.

  1. 01

    Understand

    I frame the problem with product and stakeholders.

  2. 02

    Structure

    I shape information architecture and connected workflows.

  3. 03

    Design

    I translate decisions into interactions and reusable systems.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    I partner with engineering through implementation and edge cases.

The same clarity carries into brand identities and pitch decks.

03 / Product Design

Not just how it looks.
What it changes.

Vinyl Health mobile product interface
Vinyl HealthOriginal project work

Vinyl Health

Onboarding and patient journeys connected on mobile.

Illustrative outcome · simulated

32%relative improvement in onboarding completion

50% → 66% · +16 percentage points · +32% relative. 

Read case study

How I think / Design philosophy

Four rules.
Very few exceptions.

  1. The product can be sophisticated without making the user carry that complexity.

  2. If a screen does not help someone understand, decide, or act, question it.

  3. The best interface decision keeps working after the first flow ships.

  4. Constraints, edge cases, business needs, and engineering are part of the work.

AdminArm workbook validation workflow screens
Seen in AdminArm

Product thinking, interaction craft and systems that hold up in use. The same judgement shapes my brand and visual storytelling work.

The journey / Experience

A journey of
increasing ownership.

Feb 2026 - Aug 2026

ACIES LLP

Senior Product Designer - Goa, India

Led a BI platform redesign from problem framing through delivery, owning information architecture, workflows and design-system foundations with product and engineering.

Oct 2023 - Aug 2025

Saletancy

Senior UI/UX Designer - Remote, India

Led end-to-end product design for OWOW Talents, including its reusable Figma system, AI-enabled experiences and the company website redesign.

May 2022 - Oct 2023

Compile Crew

UI/UX Designer - Bangalore, India

Owned responsive web and mobile design, from flows and prototypes to production UI and reusable patterns.

Sep 2021 - Apr 2022

Navajna Technologies

Associate UI/UX Designer - Hyderabad, India

Designed flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for a digital fitness platform.

Mar 2020 - Sep 2021

K12 Techno Services

Product Designer - Bangalore, India

Led UX for two EdTech products serving 100,000+ users, with ownership across information architecture, workflows, prototypes and UI.

Sep 2019 - Mar 2020

Sigmato Solutions

Product Designer - Bangalore, India

Designed user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and reusable UI patterns for responsive products.

Education

B.Com - Bangalore University, 2016 - 2019

Advanced Certification in UI/UX Design with Generative AI - IIIT Bangalore

Master CVComplete, current, and ATS friendly
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More work / 04–08

More contexts.
Same scrutiny.

HR tech, field sales and brand identity, including three brand-guideline decks shown slide by slide.

Explore all work

The story / About Masood Ali

Drawn to the messy.
Committed to the useful.

Hear it from me
Masood Ali seated at a desk beside his laptop
Masood Ali / a little closer to the work.

I’m drawn to products with more features than clarity. The interesting work is finding the structure underneath.

My work starts before the screens: framing the problem, shaping the information and connecting the journey. I stay close to product, engineering and stakeholders through implementation — edge cases included.

Three years of teaching and mentoring at Designerrs Academy gave me a useful habit: explaining my reasoning until it holds up for a stakeholder, an engineer and a first-year designer alike.

Beyond product, I bring the same thinking to brand identities and pitch decks: a clear idea, a coherent system and a story worth following.

The path into design

After a B.Com from Bangalore University, I learned the discipline by practising it, project after project, adding certifications in human-computer interaction, Enterprise Design Thinking and generative AI along the way.

Capabilities & tools
01Product strategy & problem framing02Research & stakeholder interviews03IA, flows & wireframes04Interaction design & hi-fi UI05Design systems & handoff06Dashboards & data-heavy UX07Accessibility & responsive design08Tools: Figma, Framer, Adobe Suite, AI-assisted workflows
Take a design break

A tiny design break / playable

Pixel Arcade

Mode
Difficulty
Customize
Pixel HuntCollect every pixel. Avoid moving blocks.

Brand Design / Identity & guidelines

Different worlds.
Distinct identities.

All branding
Spaceio coworking brand identity

Brand design / Spaceio

Spaceio

Coworking brand system

Numa Health brand guidelines, slide 1: Cover

Brand design / Numa Health

Numa Health

Healthcare brand guidelines

TriVibe brand style guide, slide 1: Cover

Brand design / TriVibe

TriVibe

Triathlon training brand style guide

The through-line

I don't just make screens. I understand the product behind them.

FAQ / useful questions

Things people
usually ask.

01Have you led other designers?

I’ve taught and mentored product designers for 3 years through Designerrs Academy; I don’t claim formal people-management experience.

02Do you only make things pretty?

No. Pretty is the starting line; product thinking, workflows, systems, and outcomes are the job.

03Can you handle ugly, complicated enterprise software?

That is suspiciously close to my favourite kind of problem.

04Do you work with engineers?

Yes. I design for the handoff and stay close through implementation, edge cases included.

05Do you use AI?

Yes, as an accelerator for exploration and iteration. Design judgment remains stubbornly human.

06Can you work from 0 to 1?

Yes, with the useful caveat that the problem still needs to be real.

07Are you a Figma-only designer?

No. Figma is a tool. Product judgment is the actual skill.

08What happens when requirements are messy?

I make them less messy before they become screens.

09Why should we talk?

If the product is complicated and the team cares about getting it right, that is usually a good conversation.

Let’s make sense of it

A complex product.
A useful conversation.

I’m open to product design roles, consulting and selected collaborations.