DY Lee

DY Lee

DY Lee

Product designer with 10 years of experience designing consumer products and complex digital experiences. I turn ambiguous customer and business problems into product strategy and shipped experiences through research, data, interaction design, and cross-functional leadership.

Experience

2022 – Present

Grab Singapore · Southeast Asian superapp

Grab
Singapore · Southeast Asian superapp

Grab
Singapore · Southeast Asian superapp

Lead Product Designer

Apr 2025–Present

  • Lead Safety product design across passenger and driver journeys in 8 Southeast Asian countries and 900+ cities as the team’s sole dedicated designer, tackling complex problems across trust, privacy, risk, and marketplace experience.

  • Shape the Safety product strategy and roadmap through end-to-end journey mapping and independent research, identifying unmet needs and product opportunities and aligning senior Product, Operations, and Marketing leaders through annual strategy workshops.

  • Extend design ownership into implementation through AI-assisted coding, resolving front-end quality issues through merge requests and codifying an end-to-end workflow to help other Grab designers adopt AI-assisted development practices.

Senior Product Designer

Aug 2022–Apr 2025

  • Reframed audio recording from post-incident evidence into an end-to-end safety layer spanning deterrence, detection, assistance, and evidence; led strategy, research, and design for AudioProtect and related experiences, with AudioProtect reaching ~80% regional adoption and enabled rides associated with 32% fewer in-person safety incidents.

  • Redefined women-driver safety around confidence and participation rather than incident rate alone; combined research and behavioral data to design and launch Women Passengers Preferred 0→1, reaching ~75% adoption among women drivers.

  • Earned the Grab Way Award (top 5% globally) for exceptional ownership across Safety and key initiatives in 2024.

2020 - 2022

2359 Media Singapore · Digital product consultancy

2359 Media
Singapore · Digital product consultancy

2359 Media
Singapore · Digital product consultancy

Head of Experience Strategy (UI/UX)

Mar 2021–Aug 2022

  • Promoted from UI/UX Designer to the company’s first Head of Experience Strategy within 10 months; built and managed a 6–7 person design team across hiring, staffing, critique, mentorship, and performance development.

  • Established the company’s design practice and critique culture while leading experience strategy for organizations including National University of Singapore, Singtel, GovTech, SingHealth, and NTUC.

  • Led product design for NUS Internship-As-A-Service (IAAS), a digital skills marketplace launched during COVID-19 with 60+ industry partners and 400+ projects connecting students with work and internship opportunities.

UI/UX Designer

May 2020–Mar 2021

  • Led end-to-end UX/UI across mobile and web products, turning ambiguous client problems into shipped experiences through discovery, research, information architecture, interaction design, and prototyping.

Earlier Experience

2018–2020

C47 Singapore · e-commerce

C47
Singapore · e-commerce

Design & Operations Manager

Sep 2018 - May 2020

  • Led end-to-end UX/UI design for a consumer shopping website (home & loungewear brand) from concept through launch, developing visual merchandising strategies informed by sales data analysis.

2019

Favorite Medium Singapore · Digital product consultancy

Favorite Medium
Singapore · Digital product consultancy

UI/UX Designer · Project-based

Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

  • Redesigned the information architecture of a B2B SaaS platform through generative user research and moderated usability testing, partnering with a PM and engineer to validate design decisions.

2017

Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul, South Korea

Seoul Metropolitan Government
Seoul, South Korea

Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul, South Korea

Designer

Apr 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Designed brand identities and marketing collateral for innovative independent retailers, advising on design strategy aligned with clients' goals and budgets.

2016–2018

Freelance Graphic Designer

Oct 2016 – Aug 2018

  • Designed visual materials including branding and publications for clients such as artists, musicians, and the Singapore Malay Teachers' Union, managing client relationships from initial brief through final delivery.

Education

2024–2026

Master of Engineering, Virtual & Augmented Reality Content

Mar 2024 - Aug 2026

Namseoul University · South Korea

2011–2016

Bachelor, Economics · Psychology · Visual Communication Design

Mar 2011 - Aug 2016

Ewha Womans University · South Korea

FOCUS

Agentic systems · Product strategy · Interaction design · Prototyping in code · Design leadership

Agentic systems · Product strategy · Interaction design · Prototyping in code · Design leadership

Tools

Figma · Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · ProtoPie · Unity · C# · Git · Adobe Creative Suite

Figma · Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · ProtoPie · Unity · C# · Git · Adobe Creative Suite

Available