Hello, I’m Omar Syed
I’m a Senior UI/UX Designer specialising in enterprise SaaS and complex workflows
About Me
I’m a Senior UI/UX Designer with 8+ years of industry experience, including 5+ years designing enterprise SaaS and on-premises products. My work focuses on simplifying complex systems through research-driven design, information architecture, and interaction design.
With a background in quality assurance and UX, I bring a systems-level perspective to product design, aligning user needs, business goals, and engineering constraints to create scalable solutions. I’ve led the design of enterprise forecasting and analytics tools, improving usability, task success, and workflow efficiency across enterprise product suites.
More recently, I’ve been exploring AI-native product design, including agentic workflows, AI-assisted research, and human–AI collaboration to shape the next generation of enterprise software.
Core Skills
User Research
Design Systems
A/B Testing
Agile Methodologies
Cross Functional Collaboration
Stakeholder Management
Usability Testing
Interaction Design
Design Thinking
QA Testing
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Team Leadership
WCAG Principles
Accessibility
Mentoring
Data Visualisation
Autonomous Workflow Design
Enterprise UX Strategy
Wireframing
Prototyping
Documentation
Agentic AI
Lean UX
Tools & Software
Figma
Axure
Framer
Adobe XD
JIRA
Confluence
Sketch
TestRail
Amazon QuickSight
UserTesting
Trello
Professional Experience
April 2024 - May 2025
Senior UI/UX Designer
BEONTRA GmbH
Took ownership and led the design of a suite of 15+ digital deliverables, including end-to-end products and targeted feature enhancements
Key Achievements:
Improvements to the information architecture and visual hierarchy contributed to a 60% reduction in time-to-access for key user features and a 80% increase in task completion rates.
Led collaborative sessions with cross-functional stakeholders and conducted qualitative and quantitative user research, which informed high-impact UX decisions resulting in a 80% reduction in user-reported issues, and improved task success rates across key workflows.
Played a key role in delivering development-ready design components and fostering seamless collaboration with product managers, developers, and senior leadership. This alignment ensured zero ambiguity in design-to-development handoffs, reduced iteration and rework cycles by over 60% and accelerated time-to-market for new releases.
November 2019 - April 2024
UI/UX Designer
BEONTRA GmbH
Spearheaded the design lifecycle of approximately 20 deliverables, covering both web and Windows-based suite of applications, with a strong emphasis on User Research, User-Centred Design, Information Architecture and interactive user flows.
Key Achievements:
Eliminated ambiguity by redesigning existing products by applying a strong sense of visual design and attention to detail to deliver polished, aesthetically refined interfaces that elevated user trust and brand perception.
Created and maintained a comprehensive Design System that enhanced design consistency and reduced UI design time by 40% , leading to faster developer handoff and more scalable product development across teams. Conducted User Testing and Heuristic Evaluations , translating insights into actionable UI enhancements which led to a measurable improvement in user task completion rate of 90% .
Designed data visualisation dashboards using Amazon QuickSight, integrating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), significantly improving strategic decision-making and operational monitoring within BEONTRA products.
November 2018 - March 2019
QA Working Student
BEONTRA GmbH
Key Achievements:
Researched and initiated an improvement in QA process by automating smoke tests for deliveries using JavaScript-based tools - Jest and Puppeteer.
Responsible for creating, maintaining and executing test cases in TestRail for BEONTRA Scenario Planning suite of applications.
February 2014 - September 2017
Quality Assurance Engineer
Scientific Games, Bengaluru, India
Quality assurance across various projects of casino gaming industry.
Key Achievements:
Designed and managed test suites in qTest , integrated with JIRA , within a high-performing and agile development team.
Demonstrated expertise in testing Windows and web-based applications, with proficiency in defect tracking and management using JIRA .
Created data visualisations using Tableau to deliver strategic revenue and marketing insights for multiple clients in the casino gaming industry.
Improved the overall gaming experience by recommending UX enhancements to the player menu, resulting in a more intuitive and engaging user interface for casino players.
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About Me
I’m a Senior UI/UX Designer with 8+ years of industry experience, including 5+ years designing enterprise SaaS and on-premises products. My work focuses on simplifying complex systems through research-driven design, information architecture, and interaction design.
With a background in quality assurance and UX, I bring a systems-level perspective to product design, aligning user needs, business goals, and engineering constraints to create scalable solutions. I’ve led the design of enterprise forecasting and analytics tools, improving usability, task success, and workflow efficiency across enterprise product suites.
More recently, I’ve been exploring AI-native product design, including agentic workflows, AI-assisted research, and human–AI collaboration to shape the next generation of enterprise software.
Core Skills
User Research
Design Systems
A/B Testing
Agile Methodologies
Cross Functional Collaboration
Stakeholder Management
Usability Testing
Interaction Design
Design Thinking
QA Testing
Information Architecture
Visual Design
Team Leadership
WCAG Principles
Autonomous Workflow Design
Agentic AI
Enterprise UX Strategy
Accessibility
Mentoring
Data Visualisation
Wireframing
Prototyping
Lean UX
Documentation
Tools & Software
Figma
Axure
Framer
Adobe XD
JIRA
ChatGPT
Confluence
Sketch
TestRail
Amazon QuickSight
UserTesting
Trello
Featured Projects
Professional Experience
April 2024 - May 2025
Senior UI/UX Designer
BEONTRA GmbH
Took ownership and led the design of a suite of 15+ digital deliverables, including end-to-end products and targeted feature enhancements
Key Achievements:
Improvements to the information architecture and visual hierarchy contributed to a 60% reduction in time-to-access for key user features and a 80% increase in task completion rates.
Led collaborative sessions with cross-functional stakeholders and conducted qualitative and quantitative user research, which informed high-impact UX decisions resulting in a 80% reduction in user-reported issues, and improved task success rates across key workflows.
Played a key role in delivering development-ready design components and fostering seamless collaboration with product managers, developers, and senior leadership. This alignment ensured zero ambiguity in design-to-development handoffs, reduced iteration and rework cycles by over 60% and accelerated time-to-market for new releases.
November 2019 - April 2024
UI/UX Designer
BEONTRA GmbH
Spearheaded the design lifecycle of approximately 20 deliverables, covering both web and Windows-based suite of applications, with a strong emphasis on User Research, User-Centred Design, Information Architecture and interactive user flows.
Key Achievements:
Eliminated ambiguity by redesigning existing products by applying a strong sense of visual design and attention to detail to deliver polished, aesthetically refined interfaces that elevated user trust and brand perception.
Created and maintained a comprehensive Design System that enhanced design consistency and reduced UI design time by 40% , leading to faster developer handoff and more scalable product development across teams. Conducted User Testing and Heuristic Evaluations , translating insights into actionable UI enhancements which led to a measurable improvement in user task completion rate of 90% .
Designed data visualisation dashboards using Amazon QuickSight, integrating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), significantly improving strategic decision-making and operational monitoring within BEONTRA products.
November 2018 - March 2019
QA Working Student
BEONTRA GmbH
Key Achievements:
Researched and initiated an improvement in QA process by automating smoke tests for deliveries using JavaScript-based tools - Jest and Puppeteer.
Responsible for creating, maintaining and executing test cases in TestRail for BEONTRA Scenario Planning suite of applications.
February 2014 - September 2017
Quality Assurance Engineer
Scientific Games, Bengaluru, India
Quality assurance across various projects of casino gaming industry.
Key Achievements:
Designed and managed test suites in qTest, integrated with JIRA, within a high-performing and agile development team.
Demonstrated expertise in testing Windows and web-based applications, with proficiency in defect tracking and management using JIRA .
Created data visualisations using Tableau to deliver strategic revenue and marketing insights for multiple clients in the casino gaming industry.
Improved the overall gaming experience by recommending UX enhancements to the player menu, resulting in a more intuitive and engaging user interface for casino players.
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