Experience, Service & Product Design Leader

Across seven brands and eight markets, I connect online and in-store experiences. Our storefronts serve 200,000+ monthly users, where I set UX priorities and test changes at scale.

I love UX most when it leaves the screen and becomes part of real life.

Charlene Yong

I design experiences that carry into everyday life, like a store visit, a pickup, or a product choice. When something breaks, the cause is often in the people, data, or process behind the interface, so that's where I look first. I use AI to reduce repetitive work and speed up analysis, but check its outputs against the people and systems involved.

Work directly with the VP of Caldecott Music Group and MD of Vista Musical Instruments.

Current role / Jan 2023 - present

Leading experience design at Swee Lee.

I lead UX/UI across seven consumer brands and eight markets, with most day-to-day research focused on Swee Lee. The work connects customer insight, ecommerce, stores, staff, and a shared Shopify system into one service.

Team leadership

Lead a three-person design team across Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand covering graphic design and UI library management; mentor and partner with colleagues across marketing, retail, VIP service, product, and engineering.

Customer insight

Rebuilt the survey programme and introduced a checkout entry point; quarterly participation later rose from 399 to 568 responses.

Product decisions

Cumulative through 2 Oct 2026: 17,883 users engaged with the stock indicator across Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Shared systems

Govern shared components and brand variables across five Shopify stores; implementation improved page-load speed by 20%.

Service diagnosis

Over 21 weeks of kiosk monitoring, an auto-open bug was fixed by week 9 and sessions declined 51% between weeks 10 and 21. I flagged a fault in the underlying queries and examined the booking journey's move into VMI Connect rather than treating the trend as a UI problem alone. Separately, I specified the tracking needed to test whether a stock check led to add-to-cart.

Explore the Swee Lee case study →

How I lead

From brief to better decisions.

01 / Clarify the need

Start with a shared brief.

Brief standards and an AI-assisted check surface missing information before work enters the sprint.

  • What problem are we solving?
  • What do we need to know before design begins?

02 / Consider the system

Reuse with purpose.

Compare requests with shared patterns, brand needs, and maintenance cost before committing engineering time.

  • Can an existing pattern meet the need?
  • What changes when this reaches every brand?

03 / Build alignment

Understand the disagreement.

Hear stakeholders separately, make the trade-offs visible, then use visual examples to reach a decision together.

  • What matters most to each team?
  • What can we agree on to move forward?

04 / Diagnose the service

Look behind the screen.

Check what the data measures, how the work flows, and who owns each step before proposing a redesign.

  • What is driving the behaviour we see?
  • Who owns the step that needs to change?
In practiceService designOmnichannel journeysBrief governanceComponent strategyCustomer researchCross-functional alignmentPost-launch evaluationAI-assisted workflows

Outside the interface

Singapore is home. Cooking for friends is my favourite counterpoint to digital work, and it keeps me drawn to products and experiences people live with every day.