Gen Chang
@genchang
I build scalable design systems and intuitive mobile experiences for global rewards and digital banking products.
What I'm looking for
At Discovery Vitality, I owned the vision, strategy and roadmap for a global design system used across 15 insurance markets and partners. I scaled it to 285+ components, 17 templates and 154 icons, supporting adoption by 89+ developers and QA teams.
I’ve shaped customer experiences for Vitality’s global rewards platform and Saudi Digital Bank’s retail and SME mobile products, translating complex flows into usable, accessible interactions. My work reduced usability issues by 41% and cut design-QA time on major journeys from 16 to 5 days.
I enjoy pairing systems thinking with practical collaboration—working closely with engineering, mentoring designers, improving handoff, and exploring AI-assisted design-to-code workflows.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Owned the vision, strategy and roadmap for Vitality's global design system, scaling to 285+ components, 17 templates and 154 icons, and driving adoption across 89+ developers and QA teams in 15 insurance markets and partners. Rebuilt core components around Figma colour and text variables, enabling localisation across 10+ markets without rebuilding layouts.
Senior UX/UI Designer
DVT
Feb 2022 - Jun 2025 (3 years 4 months)
Presented design forums and hosted masterclasses on efficient Figma workflows and plugin use, contributing to internal design capability and best-practice sharing.
Senior UX/UI Designer
Vision Bank
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022 (9 months)
Helped shape the customer experience for a new fully digital bank, translating business-analyst-defined banking flows into low- and high-fidelity UX across retail and SME mobile and tablet products over a 9-month build. Co-architected a multi-product design system from scratch, using a shared base UI kit so retail and SME libraries could inherit consistent components while applying independent bra
Mobile App UX/UI Designer
Independent Projects
Jan 2015 - Jan 2022 (7 years)
Partnered with international clients end-to-end, from ideation and market/competitor research through wireframes, high-fidelity UI, screen flows and navigation walkthroughs to handover. Assembled design systems and documentation for client projects to support long-term maintainability post-handoff.
Educational Technologist
University of Cape Town
Jan 2012 - Jan 2015 (3 years)
Evaluated lecture-recording technologies and automated installs using Ansible.
Radiology Research Assistant
Groote Schuur Hospital
Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years)
Provided research support and records management.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Cape Town
Master of Science, Information Technology
2012 - 2015
Pursued an MSc in Information Technology with a focus on Human Computer Interaction.
Wits Business School
Postgraduate Diploma, Business Administration
2008 - 2008
Completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration.
University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Science with Honours, Physiology
2007 - 2007
Grade: Cum Laude
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physiology, Cum Laude.
University of Cape Town
Bachelor of Science, Molecular, Chemical & Biological Sciences
2003 - 2006
Earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Chemical & Biological Sciences.
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