Asif Ali
Product Designer · Bengaluru

I design products that are clear
and still feel human.

Product designer, 4+ years in fintech, B2B SaaS and luxury retail at Jio Platforms, Reliance’s technology arm. Research, flows, UI, prototypes, handoff. Before any of it I go and find the why: why the business needs this, why a person would care, why the problem is there at all.

Worked withJio Platforms·Reliance Jewels·AJIO Business·Swadesh·Drippin’gear.

The proof

Where the work actually landed.

₹80 Cr

I opened a sales channel that did not exist

A gold savings scheme you could only join inside a shop, until I designed the online enrolment. 7.1% of everyone who started it paid, from a baseline of zero

4 → 1

I merged four data sources into one view

Store teams and leadership had been reading four half-pictures and deciding from whichever was loudest

9.9/10

I audited accessibility on a luxury storefront

24 contrast failures traced back to 8 shared colour tokens, then fixed once at the source instead of screen by screen

₹500 → ₹850

I reworked the cart and people spent more

Drippin’gear., the D2C brand I ran on the side. 0 to 500+ orders, no paid apps

How I think

Most of what goes wrong in an interface went wrong before anyone opened Figma.

My degree is in psychology, and I use it on the screens where money moves. I sort out the structure and the words first, because that is where most of the damage happens. Then I own the rest of it, from framing the problem to the handoff engineering builds from.

Behaviour first

People decide whether to trust you at the step where money moves. I design that step first, then work backwards.

Architecture first

Most usability problems are structural. I fix the structure and the labels first, so the UI lands on solid ground.

End to end

FramingResearchFlowsUIPrototypeHandoff

One owner from problem framing to dev handoff, with a spec that answers questions before engineering asks them.

The path so far

Nov 2022 – Present

Product Designer (UX/UI) · Jio Platforms

  • Reliance Jewels: in the store a salesperson carries the trust for the gold savings scheme. Online there is nobody, so the screens have to do that job. I designed the enrolment and it now brings in ₹80 Cr a year. Then the dashboard I built to watch it showed 91% of people quitting on a page I had drawn.
  • Before rebuilding their abandoned design system I went and found out why the last one died: Figma and the code had drifted so far apart that engineers had stopped trusting Figma and read values straight from source. The rebuild is 1552 tokens and a library that cannot drift again.
  • Store teams were opening four different dashboards before one decision, so I pulled them into a single surface and built the chart components the design system had been missing.
  • AJIO Business: I sat in shopkeepers' shops across three cities before touching the wholesale buying page, because there every tap is a margin calculation. Then I redesigned it around how they actually decide.
  • Swadesh: I used the site the way a blind customer does, screen reader on, before running any audit on it. It was the worst of seven luxury platforms I benchmarked, and I fixed the failures at their root instead of patching components.
  • Brought our new junior designers onto the design system and the way we work, through workshops built around outcomes rather than deliverables.

Nov 2023 – Jun 2026 · Part-time

Founder & Product Designer · Drippin’gear.

  • Margins got thin and I wanted to know why before I spent more on ads. The answer was in the cart, so I rebuilt that, and average order value went from ₹500 to ₹850 with no paid apps.
  • I owned the store, the Meta ads and the P&L across 0 to 500+ orders. It is where design met a real commercial loop.

Jan 2022 – Nov 2022

UX Designer (Content & Flows) · Siply

  • Siply's users were putting money into an app for the first time, most of them on their first smartphone and many of them low-literacy. I wrote and designed the identity, micro-savings and lending flows across 10+ Indian languages, and drop-offs fell about 30% after release.

Before design

Cath Lab Technology · SSKM Hospital, Kolkata

  • A diploma in Cath Lab Technology and hospital work, then a deliberate pivot into design.

Beyond the pixels

Things I make when no one’s briefing me.

Rides, streaks and reels. And between them, the people I’ve shipped with.

Standing in a misty pine forestTravel
A 587-day Duolingo streak on my phone587 days
An open book, chapter nine: FoundationsReading
Asif combines strong product thinking with solid execution. He brings clarity to complex problems, especially in areas like PDPs and scalable design systems. He balances business and user needs well, takes ownership, and consistently delivers practical, well-thought-out solutions.
Ajay SreedharAjay SreedharAVP & Head of Design, Jio Platforms
Motorcycle on a red-earth trailRides
Outside the Jio buildingOffice days
Asif is a clear thinker who translates user insights into intuitive flows. He structures messy problem spaces effectively and collaborates well across teams. Calm, open to feedback and focused on outcomes. He makes the design process smoother and more intentional.
Kuntal ChakrabortyKuntal ChakrabortyBusiness Experience Designer, RingCentral
My bookshelf under warm lamplightThe shelf
Asif focuses on outcomes, not just screens. He simplifies complex systems into usable experiences while maintaining attention to detail. Proactive and accountable. He’s a reliable designer who delivers with both clarity and speed.
Yohan KumarYohan KumarExperience Designer, Verizon