Open to senior & lead UX roles — banking & wealth

Tin Yat Kwok

UX design for products that reach production.

Banks rarely struggle to set strategy. They struggle to deliver it. I’ve taken 10+ products from concept to launch across retail and wealth banking — owning the work from research through release, and staying through QA so nothing stalls at handoff.

16+ years shipping
End-to-end delivery
Millions of users
10+ shipped products
Bank of China HSBC IBM Outblaze

More Work

Selected Work

Additional projects demonstrating range across products and platforms.

Impact

Shipped products, not proposals

These metrics come from shipped products in production—real users, real outcomes.

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Account opening
completion rate
BOCHK, shipped
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Trading support
tickets eliminated
BOCHK, shipped
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Client satisfaction
score for HNW
HSBC, shipped
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Products shipped
to production
Across 3 industries
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Users on
live products
BOCHK & HSBC
Zero
Compliance incidents
on shipped work
16 years running

How I Work

From brief to shipped product

A repeatable process for turning ideas into live features—proven across 16 years and multiple industries.

Step 1

Uncover

We find the real friction before anyone designs.

Step 2

Align

One shared definition of success, so sign-off is fast.

Step 3

Design

Iterate cheaply, at the low-fi stage.

Step 4

Prove

Validate with users pre-launch, not post-mortem.

Step 5

Ship

Production-ready specs — and I’m in QA till live.

Why work with me

What changes when design stays through launch

You’ve seen the cost of designers who stop at mockups. Here’s what changes when you hire someone who stays through launch.

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Fragmented Experience

Every team owns a screen. The nav changes per page. Users think they left the app.

Cohesive System

I build design systems that make every touchpoint feel like the same product.

Ideal World Design

Pixel-perfect designs the tech team can’t implement. Back to square one.

Real-world constraints

I design for the system you have—then push it forward from there.

Capabilities

What I bring to the table

Strategy is straightforward to write. Getting it into production is the hard part — and that’s where I focus.

“I don’t design for the portfolio. I design for the production environment—where edge cases are real, users are impatient, and nothing ships on accident.”

Onboard Dashboard

Products

Onboarding that doesn’t hemorrhage users. Transaction flows where mistakes cost real money. Account management that integrates with 15-year-old backends.

COMPLIANT

Constraints

HKMA compliance. Legacy system API limits. Bilingual legal disclosures. I design for the world the product actually lives in.

Platforms

Native iOS/Android, responsive web, hybrid apps. Also: design systems that 40+ engineers actually use.

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Collaboration

Presenting to leadership, negotiating technical trade-offs with engineers, and getting compliance sign-off.

Research Design Build Launch

Delivery

From research briefs to annotated specs to post-launch dashboards. I own the full arc—or the part you need me to.

About

16 years of learning how products actually ship

I started in visual design, moved into interaction design, and grew into end-to-end UX delivery—not by planning it, but by volunteering for the parts other designers avoided: the compliance meetings, the integration calls, the launch-day bug triage. Those are the skills that stuck.

Design is a means to an end. The end is a product in users’ hands that solves their problem. Everything else—process, frameworks, awards—is noise if it doesn’t ship.

I don’t design for the portfolio. I design for the production environment—where edge cases are real, users are impatient, and nothing ships on accident.

I’m especially interested in products where trust matters—where a confused user isn’t just annoyed, they’re gone.

Outside work, you’ll find me hiking Hong Kong’s trails—where there are no stakeholders, no deadlines, and the path always eventually leads somewhere.

Tin Yat Kwok portrait

Let’s ship something together.

If you’re building a roadmap and need someone to carry it into production, let’s talk.