Thomas Varghese  ·  Senior Product Design Lead  ·  Dubai
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Designing things
that actually ship.

Senior Product Design Lead with 24+ years bridging product, service, and brand. I lead design for enterprise platforms across Government, FinTech, Banking, Media, and Energy — turning research and business goals into systems that hold up at scale.

24+
Years of design across product, service, and brand
65+
Government services scaled on a single design system
30%
Reduction in design delivery time at Bloomberg MEA
35/50
Cannes Lions Design top designers worldwide, 2017
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Projects where design did real work.

Network International — case study cover Protected
Network International × SquadX

From paperwork to self-onboarding

2020
Emirates NBD — case study cover Protected
Emirates NBD

From cognitive load to clarity

2019—21
Mashreq Bank — case study cover Protected
Mashreq Bank

Four brands, one governance model

2021—22
TAMM × Abu Dhabi Government — case study cover Protected
TAMM × Abu Dhabi Government

From form to conversation

2020
Bloomberg L.P. (MEA) — case study cover Protected
Bloomberg L.P. (MEA)

Scaling enterprise design delivery

2022—24
Branding projects — selected work External ↗
Selected branding work

Identity, logos & visual systems

tomtaila.com
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Hands-on leader who still opens Figma.

I lead design for enterprise platforms — government services, banking apps, financial terminals — but I still open Figma every day. The best leaders I've worked with do.

My work has shaped products at Bloomberg MEA, Mashreq Bank, Emirates NBD, TAMM (Abu Dhabi), Network International, and now Sharjah Digital Government. The thread is the same: research-driven systems that make complex services feel inevitable.

Before all that — agency life, brand work, and a Cannes Lions ranking that still pays rent in conversations.

Currently
Product Design Lead at Sharjah Digital Government 2025 — Now
Previously
Design Lead UI/UX at Xdigit.ai 2024 — 2025
Design Lead UI/UX at Bloomberg MEA 2022 — 2024
Senior Product Designer at Mashreq Bank 2021 — 2022
Senior Product Designer at Xische & Co. 2019 — 2021
Agency roles at TBWA, VMLY&R, DDB, MullenLowe, Havas 2000 — 2019
Methodologies
Design Systems Service Blueprints Journey Mapping User Research Interaction Design Prototyping Design Strategy Mentorship
Tools
Figma FigJam Miro Adobe CC After Effects RIVE Lottie Maze
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What former teammates say.

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Based in
Dubai, UAE