01 · Daraz / Alibaba Group

Marketplace growth at scale

Designing connected buyer, seller, and creator experiences across a regional marketplace serving more than 30 million users.

Role
Senior Regional Product Designer
Focus
Buyer growth & marketplace UX
Period
2023—2024
Markets
South Asia · Regional

NDA-safe growth model

DiscoverParticipateEarn valueReturnRepeat

Growth mechanics were designed as clear, connected moments—not as isolated engagement features.

Context

Growth had to work for buyers, sellers, creators, and the marketplace at once.

I owned design initiatives across Daraz Coins, Influencer Hub, Live Streaming, Search Ads, Seller Center, product pages, and gamification. Each surface served a different participant while contributing to shared marketplace goals.

Design challenge

The work required making value, participation, and next steps clear across multi-sided journeys. Loyalty had to feel understandable to buyers; campaign and promotion tools had to reduce operational effort for sellers; creator flows had to connect content with commerce.

The challenge was to keep those experiences coherent across markets, product states, and business priorities.

My contribution

I worked across the full product-design cycle: clarifying product and growth requirements, mapping journeys and interaction flows, creating prototypes and high-fidelity interfaces, evolving reusable patterns, and partnering with engineering through implementation review.

  • Mapped user states, earning moments, reward visibility, and redemption paths for loyalty initiatives.
  • Designed creator and seller flows for campaign discovery, content submission, live commerce, and promotion.
  • Simplified seller-facing setup, bidding, product visibility, dashboard states, and performance feedback.
  • Partnered with product, business, and engineering to align user motivation with marketplace KPIs and delivery constraints.
  • Built reusable UI patterns and clearer component guidance to improve consistency.

Outcome

30+ features shipped to products serving 30M+ users.

The work contributed to a 20% increase in seller engagement, 15% revenue growth across growth-focused product areas, and a 25% improvement in design-system efficiency.