Portfolio / 2026 — Selected Service Design Work

Thomas Varghese.

Senior Product Design Lead with 24+ years across Product Design, UX/UI, Service Design, and Digital Transformation — delivering enterprise-scale platforms for Government, FinTech, Banking, Media, and Energy sectors.

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Role
Product Design Lead
Sharjah Digital Government
Based in
Dubai, UAE
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02 / CASE STUDIES
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Two projects where service design rewired how people experience a business.

01 / 2020
Network International × SquadX

From paperwork
to self-onboarding.

A two-week diagnostic that mapped NI's full merchant onboarding journey, exposed eight process weaknesses, and proposed an end-to-end digital system — designed for scale across MENA.

ProtectedService BlueprintJourney MappingFintech
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02 / CONCEPT
Emirates Airline

The future of
recruiting cabin crew.

A tablet-native service concept that keeps Emirates' rigour, adds transparency for candidates, and scales without flying recruiters to hotel ballrooms. Journey, storyboard, and service blueprint.

ProtectedService ConceptStoryboardingAviation
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→ About

Hands-on design leader bridging business goals, technology constraints, and user needs.

I'm a Senior Product Design Lead with 7+ years in leadership roles, building scalable design systems, running research programs, and shipping enterprise-grade products — often hands-on in Figma until the last pixel.

Recent work includes leading design for multi-platform government services at Sharjah Digital Government, scaling a cross-platform design system across 65+ services at Bloomberg MEA (cutting delivery time by 30%), and standardising UX frameworks across Mashreq Bank's retail and corporate banking groups.

Earlier, as Senior Product Designer at Xische & Co., I led end-to-end product design for clients including TAMM (ADDA), Emirates NBD, and Network International — which is where one of the case studies on this site comes from.

Experience / Selected
Product Design Lead
Sharjah Digital Government
2025 — Now
Design Lead — UI/UX (Consulting)
Xdigit.ai · Dubai Municipality, Al Gurair
2024 — 2025
Design Lead — UI/UX
Bloomberg L.P. (MEA)
2022 — 2024
Senior Designer
Mashreq Bank
2021 — 2022
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)
Xische & Co. · TAMM, ENBD, Network Intl.
2019 — 2021
Earlier Roles
TBWA\RAAD, VMLY&R, DDB, MullenLowe, Havas
2000 — 2019
Recognition
Cannes Lions Design
Ranked 35 of top 50 designers worldwide
2017
WPP Design Excellence
Gold, Silver, Special award
Methodologies
Design SystemsService BlueprintsJourney MappingUser ResearchInteraction DesignPrototypingDesign StrategyMentorship
Tools
FigmaFigJamMiroAdobe CCAfter EffectsRIVELottieMaze