UX Engineer and Brand Designer
Hi, I’m Thomy De Croos and I create experiences with the User placed at the Center of everything while making sure my Design is not a pain in the ass for Developers and Coding Agents.
My Work
Recent projects I've designed, developed, and delivered
- Project
- Datapel
- Role
- UX Designer, Front-end Developer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Redesign of a B2B warehouse management system: reporting, navigation and data grouping, in light and dark modes.
- Project
- Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association
- Role
- Graphic Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Print design for The Apparel Digest, the association's directory.
- Project
- Titan Trading Fund
- Role
- UX/UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Crypto mobile app UX and landing page for Titan Trading Fund.
- Project
- Green Cabin
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Website UI for Green Cabin.
- Project
- Jaguar Car Club of Victoria
- Role
- UX/UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Website redesign for the Jaguar Car Club of Victoria, Australia.
- Project
- Ceylon Jewelry
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- E-commerce website UI for a Sri Lankan jewellery brand.
- Project
- Muve UK
- Role
- UX Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Mobile-responsive UX for Muve UK's conveyancing service.
- Project
- GetSig
- Role
- UX/UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Web application design for GetSig, a SaaS e-signature product.
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My Hobby Projects
Non client work, includes ideas and explorations
- Project
- Gym Landing Page Mockup
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Landing page mockup for a gym.
- Project
- Minimal Landing Page Concept
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- A minimal landing page concept.
- Project
- Human Centric Design - Book Cover
- Role
- Graphic Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Book cover design for Human Centric Design.
- Project
- Bain Stratham's Coffee
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Landing page concept for a coffee brand.
- Project
- Kevilton
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Minimal landing page concept for Kevilton.
- Project
- Quickee.lk
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- E-commerce landing page concept for Quickee.lk.
- Project
- CrossBorder Payments
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Landing page concept for a cross-border payments product.
- Project
- Gennext
- Role
- UI Designer
- Period
- 2023
- About
- Landing page concept for Gennext.
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Experiments
Explorations in UX, art and concept
From the blog
Writing on design, process and tools
- Post
- Design that ships: reading the pull request before the mockup
- Date
- 12 Aug 2026
- About
- Why I spend as much time in the codebase as in Figma, and what it changes about handoff.
- Post
- Variable fonts in product UI
- Date
- 3 May 2026
- About
- One file, every weight, and a few optical-size tricks that make dense tables readable.
- Post
- UX of Datapel's warehouse management system
- Date
- 14 Mar 2023
- About
- How I redesigned the reporting side of a B2B warehouse system so stock managers could find a report without a support call.
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Selected clients
About Me
Specializing in user interfaces, web design, creative direction and industrial design. I’m a designer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
An undergraduate in Computer Science, holding a BSc (Hons) degree awarded by the University of Westminster, London.
Currently a UI UX Engineer and Consultant at CreativeHub Global.
Experience
Roles, study and the places that shaped me
Capabilities
What I bring to a team
Research
- User interviews
- Usability testing
- Journey mapping
- Heuristic review
UX/UI Design
- Information architecture
- Wireframes
- High-fidelity UI
- Accessibility
Design Systems
- Tokens
- Component libraries
- Documentation
- Figma variables
Prototyping
- Figma prototypes
- React and Next.js
- Framer Motion
- Handoff specs
At a glance
Every project, in one table
| Year | Client | Project | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Datapel | Warehouse management system | Designer, Developer |
| 2023 | Sri Lanka Apparel | Brand identity | Lead Designer |
| 2023 | CreativeHub | Marketing site | Illustrator |
| 2022 | Datapel | Inventory scanning app | Lead Designer |
Knowledge and balance
Good design is a conversation between what users need and what engineers can ship.
Kind words
“Thomy gave our warehouse team a system they could actually learn in a day.”
Operations LeadDatapel“Rare designer who reads the pull request before the mockup.”
Engineering ManagerCreativeHub“Clear thinking, clear files, clear communication.”
FounderSri Lanka Apparel
A few things about me
Outside of Figma
- Love
- Film photography, monospace fonts, early mornings
- Hate
- Lorem ipsum in production, twelve-step sign-ups
- Listening to
- Ambient and post-rock while designing
- Currently learning
- Industrial design and CAD