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Lead UX Designer · HCLSoftware
Syed Uzair Altaf
I design enterprise products that stay simple as they scale.
Case studies
Designing with AI
AI agents as a force multiplier for design.
How I connect AI agents directly to Figma to audit a design system, synthesise research and build on-system designs, while staying accountable for direction, judgement and craft.
- AI agents
- Figma MCP
- Design systems
- Governance
Storefront Builder
Empowering business users to build storefronts.
Leading the design of a visual storefront builder as the only designer, taking business users from engineering tickets to building pages themselves.
- Design leadership
- Research
- Prioritisation
- Visual editor
Scalable PIM
Transforming catalog management.
Turning a legacy catalog tool into a product information management system that handles categories, attributes and SKUs at enterprise scale.
- Information architecture
- Enterprise UX
- Design system
Role Management
Empower your team with access control.
Giving administrators granular control over who can do what across a multi-tool commerce platform, without breaking existing dependencies.
- Access control
- Research
- Usability testing
Mango Design System
One source of truth for enterprise commerce.
Designing, building and governing a design system as the sole designer, from benchmarking five systems to 40 components, a responsive token architecture and reusable patterns.
- Design systems
- Tokens
- Accessibility
- Governance
By the numbers
Highlights.
- 85%fewer design inconsistencies after the design system I established was adopted across teams
- 3+product teams using the usability-testing and UX research framework I introduced
- 20+websites, mobile apps and platforms I’ve led UX for, across eCommerce, finance, EdTech, health and SaaS
- 15+designers mentored across my career, including the team of five I lead at HCLSoftware
What I do
Clarity for complex products.
Design leadership
Leading and mentoring designers, running crits and workshops, and building a design-first culture with product and engineering.
AI-native design
Wiring AI agents into Figma and the design system to speed up research, audits and builds, with human checkpoints and guardrails.
Design systems & governance
Tokens, components and patterns with a contribution model, Code Connect and documentation that make the system AI-ready.
Complex B2B workflows
Catalogs, SKUs, permissions and multi-role, multi-channel enterprise flows that stay clear at the scale of 1,000+ live stores.
Experience
Where I’ve worked.
Lead UX Designer, Enterprise & Commerce UX
HCLSoftware · Pune, India
Jul 2021 – Present
Product Owner
Musalleen · Kashmir, India
Jan 2021 – Jun 2021
Lead UX Designer & Consultant
Freelance · United Kingdom
Oct 2018 – Jun 2021
Senior System Engineer, UX & Development
Infosys · Chandigarh, India
Aug 2015 – Sep 2018