mitulgajera

Senior Product Designer

I’m a product designer with 5+ years of experience shaping intuitive, secure, and scalable experiences in Web3, DeFi, and AI-driven financial products. I thrive at the intersection of technology, user experience,and strategy, designing products that make complex systems feel effortless.

In my last role, I co-founded Labyrinth a multi-chain privacy platform, and I am currently wrapping up my role there. What started as a hackathon experiment turned into a fully developed product—we raised a pre-seed round within weeks, launched on testnet, and tackled privacy, compliance, and UX challenges head-on. Along the way, we had the opportunity to present and collaborate with leading institutions, including the WBS Gilmore Centre Academic Conference at The Shard (London), the Bank of Italy (Financial Cryptography in Rome), and the CBER Crafting the Cryptoeconomy Conference (organized by Avalanche Foundation and Uniswap Foundation, with participation from Columbia University, Boston University, and Cornell Fintech). Additionally, we conducted privacy research in collaboration with ConsenSys and the MetaMask research team.

I led the end-to-end product & design strategy, translating deep technical complexity into seamless, intuitive user experiences, while building a scalable design system and defining the product roadmap. Gathering feedback through user research, I worked to solve privacy and compliance challenges for institutional and retail users. Beyond design, I also helped grow our team with core engineering team hires, contributed to marketing efforts, and secured strategic partnerships.

Before Labyrinth, I led 0-1 product design for:

Non-custodial wallet at Laguna Labs
Global inflation dashboard & financial data marketplace at Truflation
Governance platform, lending/borrowing service, and Flatcoin at Nuon

I have designed across web, iOS, and Android, gaining hands-on insights into the DeFi ecosystem and self-custody UX challenges. My expertise lies in designing scalable, user-friendly solutions for self-custody, AI-integrated fintech, and DeFi protocols, balancing financial security, regulatory compliance, and usability.

Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $0

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🇮🇳 India

Residency: 🇮🇳 India

Experience

co-founder

labyrinth

2023 - 2025

Labyrinth is a multi-chain privacy platform that enables private transactions while ensuring compliance through a decentralized compliance network (Decom) and a simplified UX on the web app. Its plug-and-play SDK simplifies privacy integration for dApps, offering seamless usability to traders, DAOs, whales, and retail users alike. I worked on defining a comprehensive product roadmap, detailing features that strengthen Labyrinth’s position as a leading privacy solution on EVM chains while upholding decentralized compliance. Lead end-to-end product design by translating user research into intuitive, privacy-first DeFi experiences without breaking current DeFi UX patterns for users. I created, scaled, and maintained a consistent design system with new design patterns, collaborated with developers for pixel-perfect execution, and prioritized features based on market insights. Worked on roadmap delivery, complete rebranding of the company, and simplifying complex technology like a labyrinth for broader audiences. Prototyped key use cases to demonstrate the possibility of providing privacy in various DeFi applications while facilitating tradeoff decisions that balanced cost, time, and features to drive impactful, user-centric product releases. Led marketing initiatives, and established collaborations with leading communities and protocols to increase reach and drive growth for our privacy solutions. Helped hire core engineering and marketing people

Lead Product Designer

Nuon

2022 - 2023

I joined Laguna as a product designer and subsequently took the lead in designing 3 products from the ground up. This includes designing a non-custodial wallet, developing a decentralized global inflation dashboard, a marketplace for Trulation (trulation.com), and NUON (nuon.i) - a Flatcoin backed by the decentralized CPI of trulation. I worked independently to complete projects ranging from new features to entirely new product offerings across all platforms (web, iOS, android). Led a complete UX redesign initiative. Created, scaled, and managed a comprehensive design system, optimizing the product experience across web apps, extensions, and mobile platforms. Conducted user research to understand user needs and problems. Led internal workshops to define and refine design goals and needs. Partner with product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional partners to iterate on and oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch.

Lead Product Designer

Laguna Labs

2022 - 2023

Founding Designer

MahaDAO

2020 - 2022

Founding designer for every project across desktop, iOS, and Android and also built a Design system. MahaDAO's first designer to be on the core team and building and designing foundational products like ARTHCoin, ARTHLoan, MAHALend to make their adoption easy. MahaDAO is a community-focused decentralized organization built on Matic Network launching the world's first value coin, ARTH. ARTH is an algorithmic currency that strives to maintain its store of value over time and fight one of the biggest enemies of financial freedom - the depreciation of money.

Lead Product Designer

Truflation

2019 - 2020

Truflation deploys real world asset (RWA) oracle software that implements a higher quantity of unbiased economic and financial data. This is calculated and published in real-time and then packaged into solutions to meet needs across TradFi, DeFi, and individual traders. I managed end-to-end experience for products of Laguna labs Truflation: Dashboard, marketplace, inflation calculator - I managed independently to complete projects ranging from new features to entirely new product offerings. - Conducted user research to understand user needs and problems - Lead internal workshops to define and refine design goals and needs - Design flows and experiences that are simple, intuitive, and elegant - Design new experiences or layouts that evolve or define visual systems in order to raise our bar for quality continually - Partner with product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional partners to iterate on and oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch

VP of iconscout photos

Iconscout

2019 - 2020

Joined Iconscout right after completing engineering to Lead Iconscout photos and grow content from 0 to 200k plus and still. Built a global community of designers and photographers. I helped to grow content for the Illustration/ Icon category by connecting with designers around the world and design teams around the world. I helped to accelerate their growth in various different phases of the acquisition funnel. Depending on the current company focus, it could be across any facet of acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, or referral. Work closely with the Founder, CTO, CMO, and other stakeholders to think about product strategy and roadmap.

Skills

design

head-of-design

lead-designer

mobile-designer

product-designer

research

ui-ux-designer

ux-researcher

english

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