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Alexander Fandén

Product Design Lead & Design Systems Expert

I’m a designer with 12+ years of experience in product and design systems.

I combine deep craft expertise with a systems mindset — shaping the design foundations, tools, and processes that help teams scale design and ship better products, faster.

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Experience

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Agoda

Jul 2024 - Present

Principal Product Designer

Design Systems

Co-created a multi-year strategic roadmap for ADS with product and leadership. Led the design of our latest major design system update, focused on accessibility, cohesion and brand-alignment.

Agoda

Jul 2021 - Jun 2024

Product Design Lead

Design Systems

Unified Agoda’s Web and App systems into a cross-platform, multi-brand design system, supported by shared docs, a bootcamp, and Figma tooling to raise design quality. Created a prioritization framework to align design work with business impact, now adopted by other design systems teams in the industry.

Agoda

Feb 2020 - Jun 2021

Senior UX Designer

Consumer-facing products

Launched Agoda’s Cart feature, co-led the migration to Figma, and helped onboard Japan’s top travel agency to Agoda’s B2B platform.

Agoda

Oct 2017 - Feb 2020

UX Designer

Supply products

Designed the YCS App to help hotel partners manage bookings, message guests, and track performance, resulting in 6x increase in daily active users.

Diakrit

May 2012 - Sep 2017

Product Development Lead

Property tech tooling (consumer & internal)

Led a team of developers and owned design for a full rebuild of our product suite, moving from Flash to HTML. Delivered WCAG 2.0 compliant tools for home buyers to find, customize and purchase homes, fully integrated with internal systems and client CMS.

Diakrit

Jan 2012 - May 2012

Product Development Coordinator

Property tech tooling (consumer-facing)

Handled UI and web design tasks for the product team and led small-scale development projects.

Diakrit

Apr 2011 - Dec 2011

Help Desk Coordinator

Real estate agent support

MittMedia / ST

Feb 2010 - Apr 2011

Graphic Designer

Print and web advertising

Self-employed

Oct 2009 - Mar 2011

Web & Graphic Designer

Websites, logotypes and print

Fierce Design

Sep 2008 - Jun 2009

Web & Graphic Designer

Websites, logotypes and print

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Languages

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Swedish (Native)

English (Fluent)

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Design systems:

Tokens & theming · Multi-brand systems · Component architecture · Design patterns · System processes · Audits & benchmarking

Product Design:

UI & interaction design · UX principles · Accessibility (WCAG 2.1) · Prototyping · Storytelling · Design thinking

Strategy & ops:

Roadmapping · Change management · Contribution models · Internal tooling

Tools:

Figma · FigJam · Framer · Adobe CC · Descript · Airtable · HTML/CSS (basic)