Product Design Leader · UX Strategist · Researcher

Designing for how
people actually thinkthink, choose, navigate

10+ years at the intersection of people, information and technology-leading design teams and shaping complex products where decisions are hard, data is messy, and clarity is the real deliverable.

The thread

People × Information × Technology

A perspective that connects my work across product design, strategy and research.

Most of my work — fraud tools, marketplaces, insurance journeys — comes back to one question: how people navigate information and make decisions. My PhD research on how online communities share knowledge is the same question at a different scale.

Selected work

Problem → Thinking → Design → Outcome

A few projects, described the way they actually happened.

Financial crime — Interactive fraud analysis tool

Finance · Complex systems · 6 months

Interactive fraud analysis network of nodes and relations

Outcome · Investigation time down roughly 30%, paper largely retired, and high adoption because the tool bent to how investigators already work.

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Otrium — Brand page redesign

E-commerce · Research-led design · 3 months

Redesigned Otrium brand page on mobile, with popular brands and value filters

Outcome · 20% longer mobile sessions, lower bounce and higher sales in premium and sustainable brands.

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Otrium — Design System Creation

E-commerce · Design systems · 10 months

Otrium design system overview

Outcome · A consistent platform experience, 30% faster time-to-market and a scalable, shared source of truth for designers and developers.

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Telecommunications — Change Request Flow Optimization

Enterprise systems · UX leadership · 4 months

Operations change-request calendar designs

Outcome · 17% improvement in user adoption and efficiency within the first month post-launch.

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NN · Movir — Making insurance decisions legible

Insurance · Research · 2020

Movir

Outcome · 54% reduction in onboarding time, 8% retention increase.

Impact

Evidence

Numbers from shipped work, with the context available on request.

20+
designers led across teams
12%
conversion increase
8%
retention increase
30%
faster time-to-market
54%
faster onboarding
37%
higher completion

Selected clients & organizations

  • DLL
  • Liberty Global
  • Perfetti Van Melle
  • Politie
  • PrimeGaming
  • Rabobank
  • Rakuten Mobile
  • Shell

Companies I’ve led within

  • Accenture
  • NN / Movir
  • Otrium

How I work

Four working habits

01

Start with the reasoning

Before layouts, I map how people decide — what they look for, what they ignore, where they get stuck.

02

Design the system, not the screen

Most product problems are structural. Information architecture usually does more work than interface polish.

03

Evidence over opinion

Research, instrumentation and a clear measure of success — agreed before the first pixel.

04

Make the thinking visible

Teams move faster when the argument behind a design is shared, not implied.

Leadership

Building teams that think out loud

I've led and grown design teams of ten and more: hiring, craft standards, career paths, and the unglamorous work of making design legible to engineering and to the business.

  • Team building, hiring and mentoring
  • Design operations and quality standards
  • Strategy and roadmap partnership
  • Stakeholder and executive alignment

Research

PhD research

Academic work that feeds directly into practice.

My doctoral research looks at how people seek, judge and use information — and how interfaces shape those judgements, for better and worse.

About

Short version

Longer version over coffee.

Miriam Soesan
Miriam, somewhere between research and shipping.

I’m a Product Design leader, UX strategist, and researcher with 10+ years of experience working across complex digital products and systems.

I’ve led design functions at Otrium — a team of 10, with P&L ownership — and built one from the ground up at both Accenture and Movir (NN Group). I also grew UX practice at Accenture across international markets, including Japan.

I started my career in research, and that curiosity still shapes how I work. I tend to ask a lot of questions — sometimes more than people expect — because understanding the problem beneath the problem is usually where the interesting work begins.

My background spans product design, UX research, strategy, and team leadership, with an MSc in Information Systems specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. I’ve worked across marketplaces, financial services, insurance, enterprise technology, and other products where information is complex, decisions matter, and getting the experience right requires more than designing the interface.

Today, that same curiosity extends into my PhD research at the University of Haifa, where I study how online communities create, organize, and share knowledge — and the ways their own systems of recommendation and classification shape how people discover information.

I’m happiest somewhere between the messy problem, the people trying to solve it, and the system that has to make it work.

Outside of work

I’m a certified yoga instructor, a lifelong reader, and someone who is usually curious about something new. I love hiking, cooking, traveling, and exploring new places, and these days, most of my time outside work is happily occupied by my family.

Contact

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