Hi, I'm Zay.
Over the past five years, I have worked with multiple organisations to enhance user experiences through creative problem-solving and interaction design. I am now part of the Podium design team, where I lead the Podium Design System and design products that make building design and planning easier, allowing for better decision-making in property development.
Experience
Professional Highlights
My design career started in 2018 when I pivoted from software engineering. I used to work as a web application developer for about 2 years until 2017 after I finished school.
I started as an intern at Inspireo, where I work with Xael Tan, Wenting Poh, Junze Zheng and other colleagues where we work on multiple small to large applications and platforms together. Invade.co, Auto-Website, and Continental Bookstores are notable projects that help me learn about different domains and navigating complexity and constraints in design.
After spending 3 years at Inspireo, I transitioned to Podium as my next opportunity. I came on board as a Senior Product Designer, focused on product design, and later on, took the lead on the Podium Design System. I had to work with incredible people like Ansell Chiu, Tyla Lim, and many others. It’s a rare opportunity and a good challenge to help shape the next generation of design tools for the built environment, to build products in a complex domain alongside people who are sharp, driven, and genuinely enjoyable to work with.