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I am Ahmad Zikri

A professional product designer with over 12 years experience

My Career Journey

Freelance UI/UX Designer

Stealth Startup, India | September 2025 - Present

Key Responsibilities

  • Built a kids’ learning app from 0 → 1, covering the entire design process from concept to delivery.
  • Conducted user research and developed detailed user personas to guide product direction.
  • Created user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs for key learning experiences.
  • Conceptualized and designed core features including game mode, quiz mode, and interactive learning modules.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure design feasibility, usability, and scalability.
  • Focused on building an engaging, accessible, and educational product experience for kids.

Principal Product Designer

Absa Bank, Mauritius | July 2025 - September 2025 (3 Months Contract)

Key Responsibilities

  • Driving Strategic Ideation: I facilitated collaborative workshops and ideation sessions with cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring every feature was rooted in real user needs and business impact.
  • Visualizing Concepts: Starting from low-fidelity wireframes, I translated abstract ideas into tangible visuals that aligned teams around a shared product vision.
  • Owning the Design System: As a steward of the Absa design system, I ensured consistency, scalability, and accessibility across all touchpoints constantly evolving the system to meet product demands.
  • Crafting High-Fidelity Designs: I produced polished, production-ready UI designs that aligned with brand guidelines and delivered a seamless user experience.
  • Bringing Ideas to Life: Through interactive prototypes, I helped teams test, validate, and iterate quickly minimizing risks and accelerating decision-making.

Notable Achievements

  • Designed and implemented a scalable design system for Absa Insurance, reducing UI inconsistencies by 80% and cutting design-to-dev handoff time by 40%.
  • Created high-fidelity prototypes that accelerated user testing cycles, enabling the team to validate concepts in under 48 hours and iterate with real-time feedback.

Design Mentor

The Design Thinker, Jakarta | March 2025 - Presen

Mentoring about UI/UX Design in these area

  • Design system (assets & components)
  • Design strategy
  • Responsive design auto-layout
  • Figma variable and responsive design using variables
  • Multi-theming in figma
  • Advance prototyping using variables

Product Design Lead

Hijra Group, Jakarta | January 2021 - April 2025

Key Responsibilities

At Hijra, I had the rare opportunity to help build a digital banking product entirely from scratch.
From defining the visual identity to assembling a high-performing design team.
I played a pivotal role in shaping not just the product but the very foundation of how design lives and breathes within the company.


  • Designing from Zero to Launch: I led the end-to-end creation of Hijra’s digital banking product, including the development of a comprehensive Design System that ensured consistency, scalability, and speed across teams and platforms.
  • Building and Leading a Multi-Disciplinary Team: Starting with just two designers, I grew and mentored a diverse design team of six, including Product Designers, Interaction Designers, Illustrators, and UX Writers creating a collaborative environment that championed user-centered design.
  • Shaping Product Development: As the design lead, I was actively involved in the product development lifecycle, working closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align on goals, solve complex problems, and deliver intuitive experiences.
  • Establishing Design Foundations: I introduced internal Design Principles and a scalable Design Process, giving the team a strong, shared framework to work from helping improve design quality, efficiency, and alignment across departments.

Notable Achievements

  • Increase number of registered users by 173%
  • Improve transfer completion time by 50%
  • Make team 3x more productive
  • Simplifying registration process from more than 5 minutes to 3-4 minutes
  • Improve online deposito experience and successfully contribute by 26.8B online deposito balance

Product Design Lead

Sinbad, Jakarta | Juli 2020 - November 2020

Key Responsibilities

Led 4 design team members, consist of Product Designer and Researcher.
As a lead, I'm create design roadmap, design system and design guidelines for team members.

Principal Product Designer

Kumparan, Jakarta | April 2018 - June 2020

Key Responsibilities

As a Principal Designer, I'm responsible for kumparan all platform (desktop, mobile web and mobile app) and collaborate with product manager to define new feature / iterate based on data qualitative and quantitative.
Also initiate to create design system for the team.

Notable Achievements

  • Initiate create design system and success improve team productivity.
  • Success increase number of pageview in a month by ~8%.

Portfolios

This section showcases projects focused on visual. (Content for visual projects is coming soon.)

This section showcases projects focused on front-end implementation, custom components, and technical UI/UX challenges. (Content for Development projects is coming soon.)

This section highlights contributions to design systems, component libraries, and documentation standards.

What friends say

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"Zikri is a good teammate. A UI / UX Designer who always wants to learn. Very active in giving creative ideas and opinions. Never underestimate this person, because he has a lot of useful abilities. Give him the responsibility, and he will finish it in a very smart way."

Rizki Mardita

Founder of The Design Thinker

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"As a product designer Zikri possess good skill on UI and UX focusing on customers. Even more important, Zikri is always open to suggestion from other people. This makes it really fun and great to work with him. Any company would be lucky to have Zikri on their team. I wish him all the best for his future endeavors."

Raymnond L. Sumargo

Software Engineer in Test at SmartNews

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"Zikri is a great product designer. He is easy to understand the requirements and also often gives a lot of feedback. He can also listen to feedback from others wisely. Moreover, in an internal project, he came with me to do the gathering requirements with a user. In the field of UI/UX, he has a very good taste, perspective and creativity."

Randy Daniswara

Product Lead at Kumparan

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"Ahmad Zikri is the kind of product design leader every company wishes they had. He’s not just about making things look good & efficient, he’s got the mindset of a product leader & entrepreneur, always thinking beyond the interface to how design directly impacts business growth. At Hijra, he didn’t just build a design system from scratch; he optimized user flows, simplified processes, and significantly improved key metrics like registration time, transaction speed, and overall team productivity.

Rangga Rezki

Director of Marketing at Gotrade

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"Working with Zikri at Hijra has been one of the most pivotal experiences in my design career. From day one, he’s been more than just a design lead, he’s been a mentor, a strategic thinker, and a strong pillar for our team, especially within the transaction stream, core banking and new business initiative design.
He leads with empathy and high standards. He makes space for collaboration and growth, always giving thoughtful feedback and trusting his team to take ownership. Whether we were simplifying critical flows or rethinking end-to-end experiences in complex systems, he was always there to support and challenge us to do our best work."

Dendra Maulana

Former Teammates | Product Designer

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"Zikri is a really good UI UX designer as he always listen to feedback from users and do research before deciding to make any design so that the designs he make will be appealing for the users. Zikri always try to think out of the box. It was really a pleasure to have work with Zikri since he's a nice humble man and can achieve target in a tight deadline."

Dimas Chandra

QA Engineer at Kumparan