I worked as a Senior UI Designer in multidisciplinary teams at the world’s largest polymer distributor, one-on-one with developers, business stakeholders and UX researchers. The engagement started with a six-week prestige project and grew into a long-term contract that ran from April 2023 to June 2025.
Status: long-term engagement, April 2023 to June 2025.
Tools: Figma, with design tokens and variables in the design system.
The challenge
Ravago wanted to start a conversation with its suppliers about an “Amazon for plastics”: a digital marketplace for polymers. That conversation only works if suppliers can see and touch the idea, so the first job was a prototype that felt real enough to react to, in a short time.
My approach
A prototype to start the conversation
I built an interactive iPad prototype in Figma over six weeks. Hundreds, if not thousands, of links between frames and designs make it behave like a real product, so it could carry a supplier conversation.
Real content, aligned every week
To avoid distorting the conversation, the prototype uses the right products and banners. We met weekly with delegates from the suppliers to align the content, which also kept the pace.
Patterns that show what is possible
To express the possibilities, the prototype is full of e-commerce patterns: willingness to pay through express delivery options and cheaper payment methods, scarcity with “nearly out of stock” badges, and e-mails with dynamic countdowns. Animations and loading shimmers make it feel alive.
Key challenges
Making a concept feel like a product
A static deck would not have worked for this audience. The challenge was building enough depth and polish into a prototype that suppliers could focus on the idea instead of the mockup.
From prestige project to long-term platform work
The six weeks were only the start of a long-term contract. Afterwards I expanded and updated a large number of components in the design system, worked with design tokens and variables, and updated design flows across the platform.
Outcomes
Delivered
- An interactive iPad prototype of a polymer marketplace, used to start the conversation with suppliers.
- A long-term engagement of over two years on Ravago’s digital platforms, with design system, token and flow work.
Results: specific figures can’t be shared for contractual reasons.
