Amaya Mangaldas
Amaya Mangaldas
 

A product designer with a flair for talking to users.

Hi! I’m Amaya, a product designer with experience across e-Commerce, B2B FinTech and HR services. I’ve worked on end-to-end design projects across native and web apps both in-house and at a design studio.

My strengths lie in interaction design and leveraging insights from user testing to shape the product and roadmap. I’m not afraid to ask questions, I’m able to bridge gaps between cross-functional stakeholders, and I was once actually told that I'd make a great product manager…

…but for now you'll find me obsessing over pixels in Figma (and taking a million pictures of my dog Snoopy).

 
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Latest work

 

OKER (2024)

Designing a discovery focused e-commerce marketplace

I designed an e-commerce marketplace for home decor, working closely with the product manager and co-founder

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TEYA (2023)

Designing a financial super app to unify a previously fragmented experience

I designed a super app that encompasses multiple financial products, realising a long-term vision of the company and solving a major pain point for the users.

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TEYA (2023)

0 to 1: Designing a business account app

I designed the end-to-end native mobile experience for a business banking app - including doing 25+ hours of user research and testing to inform the discovery phase, prioritise the roadmap and shape the product.

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TEYA (2022)

Building a design system from scratch

I built over 50% of a design system, replacing separate design systems across 8+ teams. This effort resulted in a consistent experience for the end user and enhanced operational efficiencies.

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The archive

 

upswells, WEB APP (2021)

How can we design an onboarding experience to build trust?

Through rounds of user testing and iterating on the designs, we came up with an onboarding experience that users described as “smooth” and “clear”

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PAPERPLANES, WEBSITE (2021)

How can we improve content discovery on a publication?

We added multiple affordances through which users could discover the wide range of topics on site without friction. Done with Aakash Rodrigues.

*Winner of a People’s Voice Webby

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MILY, Mobile APP (2021)

How can we increase engagement on a savings app?

We experimented with using milestones, variable rewards and microcopy to entice users to save more often. Done with Aakash Rodrigues.

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what others have to say

“Amaya is a talented Product Designer who is inquisitive, tenacious, and hungry to learn. Throughout our time together Amaya showed a keenness to understanding the user – and business – context of the problem at hand, asking questions and challenging where she saw fit. Additionally Amaya is able to build relationships across the functions, working closely with Product Managers and Developers to ensure that she's delivering the right, achievable, solution.”

- Loz Gray, head of design

“Amaya’s ability in Product Design far out weighs her years of experience. I’ve seen Amaya deliver effectively across all aspects of the design lifecycle: going out in the field to interview customers; crafting intuitive user journeys; contributing to design system architecture and designing icons for App Store pages. An impressive array of skills for someone at this stage in their career.”

- Craig Melbourne, lead product designer