About

Senior Product Designer with a hands-on product and front-end background.

I design marketplaces, B2B tools, and mobile products where user needs, business rules, and operational workflows need to work together.

My background spans web, front-end, product design, and design leadership across startups, marketplaces, and venture-backed products.

Mauritius D’Silva

How I got here

I started in web design and front-end development, which still shapes how I design today. I think about structure, states, edge cases, and how a design will work once it reaches engineering.

I later moved into product design through fast-moving marketplace and venture-backed environments, working across customer, vendor, driver, and internal operational workflows.

What I’m good at

01 Product design

End-to-end product experiences

Mobile and web flows where users, business rules, decisions, and constraints need to work together clearly.

02 Marketplace systems

Consumer, vendor, driver, and ops workflows

Product ecosystems that connect ordering, logistics, refunds, support, internal tools, and vendor operations.

03 Design systems

Scalable components and product patterns

Tokens, components, multilingual typography, RTL considerations, accessibility, and developer-ready handoff.

04 Automation and conversational UX

Reducing effort through smarter flows

Rule-based support automation and conversational ordering, including Cari Assist, focused on helping users complete tasks faster.

How I approach product work

Start with the business model

I align on value, incentives, and constraints before exploring solutions. The product becomes clearer once the commercial logic is understood.

Make the rules visible

I map rules, states, edge cases, and dependencies early so the product behaves predictably and engineering has a clear foundation.

Design for operational reality

I account for tools, teams, support paths, and workflows behind the scenes. Users may not see that complexity, but they feel it.

Design with engineering in mind

I think about components, feasibility, interaction behaviour, and handoff early, which helps teams move with fewer surprises later.

Career path

2022 — 2026

Lead Product Designer, Cari

Led design across consumer experiences, vendor tools, support automation, conversational ordering, and operational workflows for a multi-sided marketplace.

2019 — 2026

Senior Product Designer, The Taken Seat

Worked across venture-backed healthcare, recruitment, commerce, rental, and marketplace products, from early concepts to shipped systems.

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2019 — 2020

Lead Product Designer, Carriage / Delivery Hero

Helped scale marketplace design after Carriage’s acquisition by Delivery Hero, supporting product consistency across a growing platform.

2016 — 2018

UI/UX Manager & Lead Front-end Developer, Carriage

Joined as the first design hire and helped build the product foundation across web, mobile, early design systems, and front-end delivery.

Outside work

I’m usually still making or studying something, photography, typography, business, fitness, and tools that help people think and build better.

I also share landscape and travel photography on Pexels, with over 1.3M views.

Forth Bridge photography by Mauritius D’Silva 1.3M+ views on Pexels

Got a product, website, or role to discuss?

I work with teams on websites, mobile products, B2B tools, marketplaces, and operational workflows, from early ideas to shipped systems.