Good day, I'm Riaan.
Senior product designer & design systems leadTaiwan-based, working across APAC.
Available for senior product designer, lead designer, staff IC, and design leadership roles.
In a nutshell
I build products, research practices, and design systems that ship despite incomplete information and evolving constraints. I operate in regulated environments requiring compliance, multi-language support, and cross-platform consistency.
How I work
I solve problems through evidence, not assumptions. I define success metrics before designing, prototype at the right fidelity, and test systematically. What works becomes system: validated decisions graduate into tokens, components, and patterns that scale across platforms.
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Frame the problem. Define success metrics.
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Prototype at the right fidelity. Validate assumptions.
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Test systematically. Measure results.
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Build systems: tokens, components, patterns.
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Ship with specs, documentation, and tracked outcomes.
Experience
Background and expertise
Started in brand and multidisciplinary product design for regulated platforms. Sole designer for design lead roles with strong systems thinking, research, and delivery thinking.
Core technichal craft
Design systems. User experience design. UI across web, iOS, Android work with understanding of front-end constraints and development handoff requirements tooling.
Adjacent capabilities
UX writing, synthesis, front-end awareness. Tooling to maximize efficiency, speed, clarity, collaboration, synthesis front-end awareness and tooling maximum.
Industries
Fintech, real estate investment regulated AI research tools, brand digital experiences, products, real estate tools brand digital experiences products.
Markets
Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, mainland China, and multi-market
APAC products requiring localization and regulatory compliance.
Experience delivering
Multi-platform (iOS Android web) with UI design research and testing built for regulated financial experiences, multi NDA data sensitivity constraints.
Some amazing companies I've worked with.
Yida CNC
Vivawang International
Studio Gimp
WoodTomDoIt
MoreHarvest
CarZecure
BenQ
Lei Gallery
Tunghai University
Logos Cofee
Oakwater Capital
Nexara Capital
Chateau Life Japan
WaveAffects
Ritz Korrnel
The Zhou people of Chiayi