About — வணக்கம்

Hi, I’m Subash. I sweat the details so users don’t have to.

Subash Matheswaran smiling, wearing a grey t-shirt
Subash MatheswaranSenior Product Designer

Senior product designer with 11+ years across fintech, payments and enterprise B2B/B2C platforms — where a confusing screen costs someone real money.

At Kuya Technologies I led end-to-end design for InstaPay, a South African payments platform, and Strategy 360, a B2B strategy tool — and owned the design system that kept both consistent. I work inside agile squads with engineers, product owners and researchers, and I’ve championed WCAG and inclusive design on every team I’ve joined.

My favourite problems are the gnarly ones: regulatory fine print, novice users, dense data. I like turning them into interfaces that feel obvious — and mentoring designers along the way.

Outside work I make design videos in Tamil, publish free Figma resources, shoot photos for Unsplash, and once designed a new interface every day for thirty days straight.

(01) — Story

The long way round

Support desk → web → product → fintech.

2014
Sutherland Global Services · Amazon

Learning friction first-hand

Email Consultant

  • Resolved high-volume customer issues for Amazon.com.
  • Built an instinct for where order, checkout and post-purchase flows confuse real people — the foundation of how I design today.
2016
eWallHost

Pixels that convert

Web Designer

  • High-fidelity web designs for a global client base.
  • Responsive patterns built for accessibility and performance across devices.
  • Tuned Google Ads landing pages — CTA placement and hierarchy — using behavioural analysis.
2018
Spagylo Tech

Into product

UI/UX Designer

  • Designed end-to-end journeys for “Neighbour”, a community app for location-based discovery and social interaction.
  • Architected e-commerce platforms with custom configuration flows.
  • Detailed handovers that kept implementation quality high.
2020
Helpful Balance India

Making data approachable

UI/UX Designer

  • B2B and B2C work across e-commerce, school management and inventory systems.
  • Used data visualisation to make inventory planning and promotion tracking usable by non-technical teams.
  • High-fidelity Figma prototypes to align teams on complex configurations.
2021
Kuya Technologies · until Nov 2025

Fintech, at scale

Senior UI/UX Designer

  • Led end-to-end product design for InstaPay and Strategy 360, owning decisions across the full lifecycle.
  • Architected and maintained a scalable design system for B2C payment gateways and B2B strategy tools.
  • Translated regulatory and compliance requirements into mobile-first flows that measurably reduced friction for novice users.
  • Championed accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design across agile squads. Team Player award, 2024.
Now
Remote · India

What’s next

Open to Senior & Lead roles

Looking for a team building fintech or enterprise SaaS where design has a seat at the table — and where I can own a design system, mentor designers and ship work that matters.

(02) — Toolkit

What I bring

Strategy, craft and the tools to ship it.

Leadership & strategy

  • Design system ownership
  • Mentoring & coaching designers
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Design strategy for fintech & SaaS
  • Stakeholder communication

UX & design craft

  • User research
  • Wireframing & prototyping
  • Web & mobile UI
  • Accessibility — WCAG, inclusive design
  • AI-assisted UX research & design

Tools

  • Figma, FigJam, Figma Slides Daily
  • Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop
  • Marvel — prototyping
  • Hotjar — behaviour analytics
  • HTML / CSS / JS Familiar
(03) — Recognition

Learning, always

Certificates, awards and the degree that started it.

Certifications

  • How to Design for AccessibilityUdemy · Dec 2024
  • Foundations of User Experience (UX) DesignCoursera · Oct 2022
  • Enterprise Design Thinking PractitionerIBM · Jul 2022
  • UI UX DesignGreat Learning · Jul 2022
  • UI Design and Web DevelopmentBesant Technologies · Dec 2015

Awards

  • Team PlayerKuya Technologies · 2024
  • Department Topper & Best StudentCollege final year · 2014

Education

  • Bachelor of TechnologyExcel Engineering College, Anna University · 2010 – 2014
(04) — Off the clock

Beyond the day job

Giving back to the community that taught me.