Design that ships

and actually lands.

Hi I'm Joel. A Senior Product Designer across HBO Asia, Sephora SEA, GovTech Singapore, and now MINDEF (Digital Ops-Tech Centre), bridging UX strategy, strategic comms, and brand to drive clarity, trust, and adoption.

I simplify complex platforms into clear, trusted experiences. I also shape the story around them through positioning, messaging, and content structure to drive adoption across web, mobile, and assisted journeys.

Featured Case Studies.

Redesigning Sephora’s Promo Code & Deals Experience
Increased conversion through a newly redesigned digital promo-code experience across 6 markets
Social Grants Portal & Branding Overhaul
Simplified grant applications, cutting submission time and improving clarity for citizens and officers
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Who I’ve worked with.

Senior UX Designer, Senior Manager
2024 - Current
Senior UX Designer, Assistant Manager (SEA)
2022 - 2023
Product Design & Management
2019 - 2022
Creative Designer
(APAC)
2022
Senior Graphic Designer
(SEA)
2013 - 2016

Testimonials.

"Joel is reliable, dedicated and a fantastic team player. He multitasks effectively and is able to handle a high-volume workload. Consistently met and surpassed all my expectations when I hired him. He has my highest recommendation, and he will be an asset to any company."

Patrick Tan
Design Director,
Graphics (Global)

"Joel has always been a strong contributor to the team with his design skills and experience in managing designers. His workpieces are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional! He truly understands what it means to design for the users."

Simon Ang
Deputy Director,
Product Management

"Joel is a self starter who takes on responsibility. He brings great value to a product team with his UX experience and his designs and art work are of high quality."

Daniel Chan
Executive Director

"Joel has always been a strong contributor to the team with his design skills and experience in managing designers. His workpieces are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional! He truly understands what it means to design for the users."

"Joel is reliable, dedicated and a fantastic team player. He multitasks effectively and is able to handle a high-volume workload. Consistently met and surpassed all my expectations when I hired him. He has my highest recommendation, and he will be an asset to any company."

"Joel is a self starter who takes on responsibility. He brings great value to a product team with his UX experience and his designs and art work are of high quality."

Awards.

One Public Service Award
2022 - The Public Sector Transformation (PST) Awards
Best Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology (Public Sector) (Bronze)
2017 - Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) Awards
Best Team - Solution Provider (Silver)
Best Campaign - Informative Use of Mobile (Bronze)
Best Campaign - In-app Advertising (Bronze)
Best Campaign - Location-based Marketing (Silver)
2017 - Marketing Interactive Mob-Ex Awards
Best Creative Team (Silver)
Best Collaboration between Media Owner & Agency (Bronze)
2016 - Marketing Interactive The Spark Awards

Open to senior product roles in public, tech, and media sectors.

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