Principal-track Product Designer · Jakarta, Indonesia

I design operating systems,
not interfaces.

I build the systems behind consumer products — the AI that audits 200+ caregivers' daily reports, the compensation logic that decides how they get paid, the identity architecture that lets one account flow from hiring through training to operations. The interface is the thinnest possible wrapper around the system. The system is the work.

Selected Work · 2022 — 2026

Seven systems, six layers, one thesis.

From AI-augmented operations to compensation redesign to viral growth loops to identity architecture. Each project is a different surface area; the underlying move is the same.

Operations
MainStory · 2025Product Design LeadShipped

How a Retool Sheet Became an AI System

QC Audit · replacing 3 hours of manual quality review with 15 minutes of supervised AI scoring.

MainStory had 10 daycare centers and a quality problem. Three operations people spent ~3 hours per center every morning reviewing CCTV, validating timeline posts, and chasing missing meal entries. Then an incident happened. We couldn't scale the manual process — not safely, not affordably.

I designed a three-layer audit logic: deterministic checks for timestamps and required fields, pattern matching against the menu config, and KinderGPT validation for fuzzy meaning ("kerupuk" is a valid food; "ok" is not a valid caption). Scoring was progressive, not binary — CMs see exactly why each audit landed where it did. Trust is built in transparent breakdowns.

100%Automation achieved
98%Time reduction (3h → 15m)
98%Compliance rate (target: 95%)
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Workforce · Back-end
MainStory · 2025Product Design LeadShipped (3 of 4)

The Caregiver OS

Designing how 200+ caregivers get paid, rated, and trusted — across four interlocking products.

Before this work, MainStory's compensation lived in a Google Sheet, partially in someone's head, and partially in a Retool tool that didn't know the rules. Every payroll day produced the same monthly conflict cycle: "kenapa gajiku segini?" and CMs without the data to answer.

I treated this not as a payroll fix but as a system to redesign — four interlocking products: the canonical payroll spec, a variable income layer (rating + tipping), an overtime reconciliation flow that closes the trust gap between parent payment and caregiver payout, and a Talenta-style payslip transparency screen where every rupiah is explainable. The math is always visible, always traceable.

35.5%Tipping adoption (target: 10–20%)
88%Overtime pre-paid by parents (target: 80%)
200+Caregivers on the new system
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Growth
MainStory · 2025Product Design LeadShipped

Monthly Wrapped

Turning an internal monthly report into a viral acquisition channel.

Center Managers were spending hours per child every month assembling slide decks for parent calls. Parents loved them — and were already screenshotting and forwarding them to friends-with-toddlers. The deck wasn't the product. The screenshot was.

I designed a 9-card vertical artifact (Spotify Wrapped meets daycare) auto-generated by KinderGPT — same AI infrastructure as QC Audit, redeployed. Four prompt templates, a quality-check pipeline, CM-as-feedback-loop, two-channel distribution. Every share is a free acquisition touchpoint. The internal artifact became a growth channel.

Monthly → QuarterlyCM call cadence
Hours → MinutesPer-child production time
AI systems on shared KinderGPT infra
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Workforce · Front-end
MainStory · 2025Product Design LeadShipped

Owning the Funnel That Fed the Workforce

A 0→1 caregiver hiring platform that cratered for 30 days, then 5×'d.

MainStory was supply-constrained. Glints and JobStreet produced a flat ~220 caregiver leads per month. We couldn't scale centers without our own funnel. I built a landing page (Stage 1) and a full Lovable hiring platform (Stage 2), redirecting acquisition spend away from third-party boards.

Lead inflow dropped to 7% of baseline in the first month. Several stakeholders wanted to revert. I held the line — defining the leading indicators in advance, distinguishing the expected dip from real failure. By month 3, the platform was producing 4× baseline. By month 6, more than 5×. Owning your funnel beats renting it. But you have to budget for the dip.

+435%Lead inflow at 6 months (target: 30%)
−93%At 30 days (the dip)
+322%At 90 days (the recovery)
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Orchestration
MainStory · 2025Product Design LeadShipped

The Notification Board

Replacing seven scattered notification channels with a single source of truth.

One in eight monthly billings was being missed or delayed at MainStory — not because notifications didn't exist, but because they existed in seven places at once and no place was authoritative. The fix wasn't an eighth channel. It was a board: persistent, queryable, with two authoring paths (automated triggers and Ops-configured announcements) and nine deterministic click-through routes.

Every cycle, fewer corner cases got lost. The improvement compounded — not on day one, but every cycle after. By month 6, missed billing was 84% lower than baseline. Notification Board became infrastructure other products read from.

−84%Missed billing at 6 months
13.27% → 2.11%Baseline → 6 months
−55%By month 3 (compounding)
Identity / Data Architecture
MainStory · 2026Product Design LeadIn Progress

Migrating Without Migrating

Three platforms, three databases, three statuses for the same person — unified into one account architecture.

A mitra asuh at MainStory was simultaneously three different people. "Passed" in the hiring Supabase, "active" in the training Supabase, nonexistent in the kiwi-api MySQL until a fragile edge function copied her over. The default fix is a bulk migration. Bulk migrations are where companies break.

I designed a dual-branch user-driven migration: legacy users self-migrate via a "Perbarui Account" flow on next login; new users skip Supabase entirely. Both paths converge on the same BE schema. No migration weekend. No cutover moment. Plus a unified status taxonomy (MECE, with structured notes), eligibility gates instead of separate accounts, and link-by-identifier handling for multi-portal applicants.

3 → 1Databases
0Migration weekends required
30–42dTotal engineer-day estimate
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AI Product
Sirka · 2022UX Researcher → DesignerShipped

From Manual Logging to AI Recognition

Freeing nutrition coaches from calorie math — three years before "AI-augmented design" was a phrase.

Sirka's coaches were each managing 60 clients, with a target of 105. The Meal Log feature meant to make them productive was actually consuming their time — 80% of entries were manual, requiring coach calorie math. Research revealed the unlock: users weren't choosing manual because they liked it. They wanted instant feedback, and the database wasn't fast enough.

I designed a photo-based AI recognition flow (ChatGPT-era LLM parsing + Sirka's existing food database + FatSecret/NutriSurvey datasets). The flow collapsed from "search → select → adjust → wait for review" to "snap, describe, done." Coaches stopped doing arithmetic and started doing coaching.

−60%Coach workload (4–5h → <2h/day)
+75%Feature retention (40% → 70%)
30m → <1mPer-meal logging time
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About

Hi, I'm Aqis.

My name is Amalia Nurul Balqis — most people call me Aqis. I'm an Indonesian product designer who works on the operating systems behind consumer products: compensation, identity, audit, capacity, growth.

I've been doing AI-augmented systems work since 2022, when I shipped Sirka's photo-based meal recognition product. The pattern that emerged there — designing AI as a human force-multiplier rather than a replacement — has been the through-line of my work since.

Currently leading product+design at MainStory (operated as KinderCastle), Indonesia's premium childcare platform. Six shipped systems across operations, workforce, growth, orchestration, and identity. Previously Product Lead at Sirka, with prior design and research roles at Alodokter, Smartfren, BukuWarung, and Nusantara Beta Studio.

I believe trust is built in transparent breakdowns. I default to user-driven migrations over bulk cutovers. I treat exceptions as the design space, not the failure case. And I try to build systems that earn their autonomy rather than demanding it.

Experience

  • 2023 — NowProduct Designer · KinderCastle (MainStory)
  • 2023 — 2024Product Lead, Clinical Programs · Sirka
  • 2021 — 2023Senior Product Designer · Sirka
  • 2021Product Designer · Alodokter
  • 2020 — 2021Web UI/UX Designer · Smartfren
  • 2021Design Consultant · BukuWarung
  • 2020UX Researcher · BukuWarung
  • 2018 — 2020UI/UX Designer · Nusantara Beta Studio
  • 2017 — 2018UI/UX Engineer Intern · Indonesia Berbicara

Education

  • 2015 — 2019BSc Information Systems · UPN Veteran Jakarta
  • 20203-Month UX Fundamentals · Dunia Dalam Desain
  • 2019Demystifying UX · General Assembly Singapore

Awards

  • 2019Top 5, Identity Management · BCA Finhacks
  • 20181st Place, Mobile App Competition · Politeknik Negeri Semarang

Skills

UX ResearchInformation ArchitectureDesign SystemsUsability TestingProduct ManagementWireframes & WireflowsAI Product DesignService Design

Languages

  • NativeIndonesian
  • ProficientEnglish
Other Work

Earlier projects across healthcare, telco, fintech, and consumer.

A selection of work shipped before MainStory — including additional MainStory projects covered briefly. Available in deeper detail on request.

Sirka · 2024 · Product Lead

Habit Challenge Program Revamp

Rebuilt Sirka's structured diet program as a flexible "habit challenge" model with personalized phases. +6% L3+/7 user growth in the first two weeks.

MainStory · 2025 · Lead

CM Monitoring Log

QR-based CM check-in system replacing scattered manual visit logs. Foundation for incident traceability across centers.

MainStory · 2025 · Lead

Supply & Demand Automation

Capacity forecasting system replacing daily manual S&D sheets. Slot-level forecasting per nanny, per age group, per location, with overflow warnings.

MainStory · 2025 · Lead

Share as Frame

Branded social-share UGC frames for parent timeline posts. 13.3% of parents using the share feature within 30 days (target: 10%).

MainStory · 2025 · Lead

Finance Automation (Jurnal)

Automated finance expense pipeline integration. 77% of finance processing fully autopilot from day one of release.

MainStory · 2024 · Lead

Builder.io CMS Migration

Content production platform migration enabling 30–40% faster content production cycles. Steady-state at 80% of content via the new tool.

Smartfren · 2020 · Designer

Improving the User Spend Journey

Top-up + payment flow design for Indonesia's leading 4G LTE telco. Validated through interview + usability testing on the newly revamped web platform.

BukuWarung · 2020 · UXR

Onboarding Conversion Research

Identified user-driven prompts beat system-driven prompts for the "Allow Contacts" permission. Reframed the entire onboarding flow around user intent.

Alodokter · 2021 · Designer

Aloshop PSEF

Pharmacy product line for Indonesia's largest health platform. Design system contribution + iterative product design through interviews and card sorting.

NBS · 2019 · Designer

Nussa Website

Web profile design for Indonesia's beloved Islamic children's animation. Dual-audience design for kids and parents.

NBS · 2019 · Designer

Grosenia B2B Marketplace

Wholesale B2B platform for Indonesian small industries. Full app design plus illustration system.

Personal · 2020

Ecohero

Conceptual climate-action platform. End-to-end research, persona work, ideation, journey mapping, wireframes, and UI.

If you're hiring for someone who designs operating systems, I'd love to talk.