Hi, I’m Hagop Tahhan, a Digital Product Designer based in Montreal, Quebec, with over 9 years of experience crafting human-centered digital products and services for B2B and B2C startups across technology, financial services, retail, travel, health & wellness, and beyond. I’m passionate about blending design, technology, and storytelling to create memorable user experiences. I lead product design and Webflow development, building design systems and reusable components to accelerate delivery. I enjoy mentoring teams, translating business goals into delightful user journeys, and driving end-to-end product development from ideation to launch.

Hagop Tahhan

Hi, I’m Hagop Tahhan, a Digital Product Designer based in Montreal, Quebec, with over 9 years of experience crafting human-centered digital products and services for B2B and B2C startups across technology, financial services, retail, travel, health & wellness, and beyond. I’m passionate about blending design, technology, and storytelling to create memorable user experiences. I lead product design and Webflow development, building design systems and reusable components to accelerate delivery. I enjoy mentoring teams, translating business goals into delightful user journeys, and driving end-to-end product development from ideation to launch.

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Hi, I’m Hagop Tahhan, a Digital Product Designer based in Montreal, Quebec, with over 9 years of experience crafting human-centered digital products and services for B2B and B2C startups across technology, financial services, retail, travel, health & wellness, and beyond. I’m passionate about blending design, technology, and storytelling to create memorable user experiences.

I lead product design and Webflow development, building design systems and reusable components to accelerate delivery. I enjoy mentoring teams, translating business goals into delightful user journeys, and driving end-to-end product development from ideation to launch.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent
Turkish
Advanced
French
Beginner
Armenian
Fluent

Work Experience

Founder | Webflow Developer at Design Wave Studio
October 1, 2025 - Present
Founder of Design Wave Studio, focusing on Webflow development and AI-assisted design workflows for rapid delivery and scalable components.
Lead Product Designer at Design Wave Studio
October 1, 2024 - November 1, 2025
Designed and prototyped website infrastructure components using design systems to enable delivery within 72 hours. Led UX-driven e-commerce customization projects and mentored junior designers through full project cycles, focusing on Figma Design System implementation and UX best practices.
Product Designer at ShooGa Marketing - Digital Transformation Agency
December 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023
Designed and prototyped websites and booking/payment flows; contributed to e-commerce and booking system UX for various clients; implemented performance optimizations and content strategies; collaborated with marketing teams to refine content.
Senior Digital Designer at ShooGa Marketing - Digital Transformation Agency
July 1, 2020 - October 1, 2024
Directed AI product strategy, roadmap, and sprint planning; created low/mid-fidelity prototypes and wireframes guiding UX toward high-fidelity prototypes within a cohesive Figma design system and Storybook component library. Reduced development time by 35% through a standardized design system and reusable twig component library. Developed detailed user personas, flows, journey maps, and service blueprints; designed and implemented E2E test suites (Playwright) integrated into the DevOps workflow. Managed a cross-disciplinary product team and built responsive marketing websites and landing pages in Webflow, turning Figma designs into live sites with consistent structure. Managed CMS collections and dynamic templates in Webflow, improved page speed, on-page SEO, and mobile responsiveness, and created custom interactions and animations (GSAP, Spline, HTML/CSS/JS) for enhanced UX. Integrated third-party forms, analytics, automation, and lead capture tools.
Web & Graphic Designer at Tabclix
December 1, 2016 - July 1, 2020
Designed and prototyped custom websites and payment gateways; built user dashboards for bike-share projects (Bike Share Toronto, Àvelo) to enable unlocking bikes via web apps. Conceptualized a home-builder tool for real estate, and contributed to a travel & tourism booking system. Created high-end Webflow sites; collaborated with developers to ensure QA and address issues; championed the adoption of Figma & Webflow to boost team productivity by ~30% and optimized assets for faster load times. Collaborated with marketing to edit content via WordPress CMS.

Education

BFA, Design and Visual Communications at Glasgow Caledonian University
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2015
Associate’s degree, Designing and Building AI Products and Services at MIT xPRO—Professional Development
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2026

Qualifications

Professional Diploma in UX Design
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
NCCP Certified Basketball Coach
January 11, 2030 - July 6, 2026
UX Design Techniques: Ideation
January 11, 2030 - July 6, 2026
Cutting-Edge CSS
January 11, 2030 - July 6, 2026
Web Programming Foundations
January 11, 2030 - July 6, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Financial Services, Retail, Travel & Hospitality, Healthcare, Real Estate & Construction