Hello, I'm Ted Thie

Most people call me TT

I'm a product designer who works best where the data is dense and the decisions matter. I turn high-pressure choices into calm screens, then work with engineers until they ship.

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Most recently

I designed trading, forecasting and hiring simulations for AmplifyME, whose clients include global banks. Before that I designed hospital systems at Palladium, an e-learning platform at Elgia (remote, US) and a buy-now-pay-later app at Revolution Analytics.

Out of office

I'm building Jasiri Sports, a sports platform for Africa, and training as a commercial drone pilot. Off the clock, I play table tennis at an elite level, and I'll never turn down a good lasagna.

My super powers

Calm screens for high-stakes decisions

Leaderboards, scoring systems and dashboards that people can read and act on under pressure.

Design systems that theme

One token set, ten brands. New client themes go live in hours, not days.

Design and development

Trained in computer science and fluent in front-end. I name tokens to match the code, so handoff is a lookup, not a guess.

Testing in the real world

From live tournament players to cashiers in hospitals, I test where the product is actually used.

A drone shot at sunset over acacia woodland, with a row of red-roofed houses and hills on the horizon
Drone pilot in training
Players at a client event working through a question on a tablet running one of my games
One of my games, at a client event
Portrait of Ted Thie, smiling, in round glasses and a white T-shirt
That's me

Experience

  1. 2024 — 2026
    AmplifyMEProduct designer, contract

    Lead designer on a forecasting platform built from scratch, a multi-brand game system for 10 enterprise clients, a trading simulator, hiring analytics and career simulations.

  2. 2023 — 2025
    PalladiumUI/UX Specialist

    KenyaEMR billing, built from scratch and adopted by OpenMRS as its standard; the inpatient module and the patient journey from triage to pharmacy; the Nishauri patient app.

  3. 2022 — 2023
    Elgia Inc.Product designer, remote (US)

    Alinkeo, a cybersecurity course platform with an interactive transcript; an image-map pitch tool with 85% adoption.

  4. 2019 — 2022
    Revolution AnalyticsProduct designer

    Nunua Sasa, buy-now-pay-later scored from M-Pesa and bank statements, cutting support tickets by 30%.

Education

2019BSc Informatics and Computer ScienceStrathmore University, Nairobi
2016 — 2021CertificationsProduct Designer Certification, Dribbble · IBM Big Data Developer Mastery Award