Gabriel Lek

Lead UX Writer at Grab (Mobility / Transport) | Adventurer

Singapore

About

My journey as a simplifier began when a prof told me the world doesn’t need more physicists, but people who can explain what we know. This led to my exploration of different fields from astrophysics to psychology in my goal to understand how people think. In each field, I saw how great ideas often come from a simple curiosity. That is why I went into content design to make things easy as they should be.

Experience

  • Grab (Full-time · 4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Lead UX Writer (Mobility)
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Senior UX Writer (Mobility)
      Oct 2023 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

      As the content designer for Grab's mobility and transport team, I lead the content strategy for Southeast Asia's premier ride-hailing experience, reaching 180 million people.

    • Senior Content Designer (Grab For Business)
      Dec 2021 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Established content design foundations for Grab For Business, making it simple for corporate clients to use the Grab app and business portal — through system consistency. Changed Grab's content hand-off process — moved the team away from spreadsheets and created a content annotation library for 100+ product and content designers to hand-off content directly from Figma to localization. Saved 50% time and reduced errors from maintaining content spreadsheets. Elevated content design standards at Grab by introducing a fallback style guide, advocating for accessibility, and building relations with engineering to improve complex content systems and processes.

  • Aleph-Labs (Full-time · 1 yr 10 mos)
    • Content Designer (UOB)
      Oct 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Simplified finance in the TMRW app across 5 countries — planned UX strategy, facilitated workshops, led content sign-offs, did UX research, and managed content localization. Mentored by Laura Kuisma.

    • UX Writer & Researcher
      Feb 2020 - Oct 2020 · 9 mos

      Started the UX writing practice at Aleph by creating the voice and tone guide for Great Eastern, which earned us the bigger project of re-imagining their site’s UX.

  • Creative Writer at Myself
    Jul 2014 - Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Practiced fiction, nonfiction, food writing, travel writing, playwriting, and poetry with award-winning authors. Currently, I write of the strangers I meet around the world, of figure skating, food, and othered men.

  • Playwright in Training at Singapore Repertory Theatre
    Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 · 5 mos

    One of 12 participants selected for a 16-week program with award-winning playwright Jean Tay. Scripted and directed a scene set in the Mongolian steppes.

  • Writer in Residence at Yale Peabody Museum
    May 2016 - Jul 2016 · 3 mos

    Created a collection of scientifically whimsical stories for the museum's 150th anniversary. Learnt how to write for our visitors by observing them in the galleries.