UCD

Designing services with purpose – led by insight, shaped by people.

7 GDS Projects - All Phases

20 Private Sector Projects

Certified Product Owner

SR

I’m Syed, a Service Designer & User Researcher

With over a 15 of experience, I design user-centred services that transform experiences across sectors including government (GDS), finance, retail, and technology. I combine service design expertise with Agile delivery as a Certified Product Owner, ensuring solutions are both impactful and deliverable.

I’ve led the development of key government & private sector services driving change through user insight led design and strategic product thinking – bridging the gap between user needs and business outcomes.

Strong Attributes

User-Centered Thinking

Skilled at uncovering real user needs and translating insights into meaningful design decisions.

Strategic Collaboration

Experienced in aligning stakeholders, facilitating co-creation, and navigating complex systems.

End-to-End Delivery

Confident in driving the full design lifecycle – from discovery to implementation—with a focus on outcomes.

I can help you with!

Service & Product Design

Product Management

User Research Activities

My Approach As A Service & Product Designer

1. Empathise

Gain a deep understanding of users’ needs, behaviours, and challenges through research.

2. Define

Synthesise findings to clearly articulate the problem and align stakeholders around a shared design challenge.

3. Ideate

Co-create a range of user-centred ideas in collaboration with teams and stakeholders.

4. Prototype & Test

Develop low/ high fidelity prototypes to explore ideas and test them with real users for feedback.

5. Iterate & Deliver

Refine solutions through continuous iteration and support the delivery of impactful, scalable services.

Imagine two Hotels side by side, both offering the same services on paper. Yet, only one of them consistently sees repeat customers. The difference? Service design.

My Portfolio

Mar 2023 - July 2024

DWP – UK

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

BEIS – UK

Apr 2022 - July 2022

Met Office – UK

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

BT Global – UK

Delivered for

UX Skills & Tools

Service & Product Design

Discovery Research

Ideation Workshops

Prototyping & Testing

Stakeholder Management

Process Flows

Journey Mapping

Service Blueprints

Decision Tree

Business Model Canvas

Data Visualisation

Competitive Analysis

UX/ User Research

UR Planning Workshops

1:1 Interviews

Data Clustering

Focus Group

Gorilla Testing

Journey Mapping

User Personae

User Journey Mapping

A/B Testing

Empathy Mapping

UX Tools

Miro & Mural

Figma

Sketch

Axure RP

Heroku 

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe XD

Userzoom

Usertesting

Balsamiq

Let’s Humanise Digital Experiences!