About
Hello, I'm Mala
I'm a UX/UI and Product Designer with about eight years of experience, now based in Toronto, Canada. I've designed across enterprise software, fintech, design systems, education technology and consumer products.
I design experiences that make fintech less scary, e-commerce more fun, SaaS less clunky, and data analytics actually usable. Insurance and edtech? Been there, fixed that.
My work sits where art and technology meet. I care about the structure underneath — flows, systems, the boring-but-vital edge cases — and about the surface people actually see and feel.
From blueprints to products
Bachelor of Architecture. I started with blueprints and buildings — learning how space, structure and people's movement shape an experience.
Master's in Product Design. Then I moved into pixels and products, bringing that industrial-design rigour to digital work.
Now I design experiences that are as functional as they are beautiful.
How I work
Research-driven, user-focused, impact-driven. Strategy and creativity in the same room.
- 01
Discover
Talk to people, read the data, map the mess before touching a pixel.
- 02
Define
Name the real problem — the one the business and the user both feel.
- 03
Design
Explore widely, then commit to structure, systems and craft.
- 04
Test & iterate
Put it in front of users, measure, and refine until it earns its place.
Selected experience
- Local LogicSenior Product Design · PropTech · AI · AnalyticsMarch 2024
- Jobsier — CooperHireSenior Product Design · Design SystemsJan 2023
- EY SpotmentorUX Designer · Enterprise SaaS · B2B2017
- PaisabazaarProduct Design · FinTechFeb 2022
- Researcher.LifeSenior Product Design · EdTech · AI toolsJune 2022
- Etsy IndiaProduct Design · E-commerce Onboarding2018
Toolkit
- AI Product Design
- SaaS Platform Design
- UX Strategy
- Human-AI Interaction
- Design Systems
- User Research
- Prototyping
- Figma
- Information Architecture
- Storybook
Recognition
- Winner, Adobe Creative Jam — Adobe
- WADe Asia Young Artist Award — WADe Asia
- Design-enabled digital technology for social impact — USID Foundation
- James Dyson Award — James Dyson Foundation
Off the clock, I make things
Painting, illustration, ceramics and graphic experiments keep my eye sharp and my hands busy. It's where the WADe Asia Young Artist Award came from — and where a lot of my visual instincts get tested first.