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Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal Member Since
June 11, 2021
Buhari is a passionate product designer with over five years of experience. He has helped shape products in the health, fashion, entertainment, and fintech marketplaces, inclusively helping startups design and build great products over the years. His user interfaces have helped millions of users. He believes in simple and functional designs and finds inspiration in nature. Buhari works well in small or big teams and also with new startup founders.
Work Experience
Freelance Designer
2015 - PRESENT
Buhari Jemilu Design
- Managed and coordinated visual design projects from concept through to completion.
- Developed business requirement guidelines to better define the client’s requirements.
- Managed a team of three talented visual designers.
- Served as lead designer for a cryptocurrency app that is about to launch onto the African market.
- Collaborated with clients remotely to build and grow their digital presence in the form of brand and experience strategy, website, app, and graphic and digital design.
- Led the product concept and identity design for several brands and clients.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, HTML, CSS, WordPress, User Interface (UI), High-fidelity Prototypes, Responsive Web Apps, UI Design, Web & Mobile Applications, Web App Design, UX Design, Blog Design, User Research, Logo Design, Brand Design, Color Schemes
Senior Mobile App Designer
2023 - 2023
zooom productions GK
- Designed a product detail page to help users have a better experience in viewing products.
- Collaborated with the PM and Product Owner to create a better checkout experience.
- Prototyped the experience from the product detail page to the checkout flow.
Technologies: Mobile Design, Mobile App UI, Mobile UX Design, UX Research, User Interviews, User Research, eCommerce, Color Schemes
Instructional Designer
2023 - 2023
TREENLABS LTD
- Designed course videos using AI to generate the voiceovers.
- Designed explainer videos for every course outline.
- Collaborated with the client to get the best explainer videos.
Technologies: Instructional Design, Copyright, Video Design, Online Course Design, Visual Design, User Research
UI/UX Designer
2021 - 2023
Artech Holdings LLC dba On The Stage
- Designed and implemented user interfaces that are responsive, intuitive, and visually appealing, empowering thousands of organizations with ticketing, box office, marketing, fundraising, and reporting tools.
- Used heuristic analysis techniques to identify pain points and possible improvements.
- Conducted qualitative and quantitative usability testing of products.
Technologies: UI Design, UX Design, SaaS Design, B2B
Web UI Designer
2022 - 2022
Steedit LLC
- Designed the landing page for the client's app with a touch of modern designing.
- Designed a clean delivery website for the client to help the company compete with other top food delivery platforms.
- Created design components on Figma to ease the continuity of the designs.
Technologies: UI Design, Zeplin, Figma, User Interface (UI), Web Design, Web UI Design, Visual Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UX Design, Web App Design, Web UX, User Research, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), eCommerce
Lead Designer
2019 - 2021
Aegle Health
- Carried out user research and user stories and conducted usability testing for the product.
- Uncovered potential opportunities through the process of creating personas and user journey maps.
- Improved and designed the web app for both patients and doctors, where they can access all features on the mobile app.
- Designed the admin dashboard where the activities of the users and doctors can be accessed.
- Analyzed competitors to better understand other healthcare apps' products and services.
Technologies: Figma, Trello, Adobe Illustrator, Appointment Booking, Appointments, Admin Panels, High-fidelity Mockups, Dashboards, Dashboard Design, Web Dashboards, Product Design, UI Design, UX Design, HTML, CSS, Photoshop CC, UX Audits, Web UX, User Research
UI/UX Designer
2019 - 2021
Naya Labs
- Designed an eCommerce website for beard products where men can see a list of beard products and buy any of their choices.
- Collaborated with my team members and designed a contact-sharing app where users can connect and share contacts with a single click of a button.
- Created user flows, user stories, and user personas and carried our research on all projects worked on within the company.
- Designed a cybersecurity website for a client in the USA.
- Helped develop and design a unique modular and responsive framework for website and app development.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin, Sketch, B2B, Dashboards, UI Design, User Experience (UX), UX Design, Fintech, eCommerce, Apps, Mobile App Design, Web App Design, Admin Panels, User Stories, Web UX, User Research, Visual Design Language, Software as a Service (SaaS), Color Schemes, Women's Health, Consumer Behavior
UI Designer
2018 - 2019
Arotec
- Designed a dashboard for a B2B platform where the clients can manage and track their sales.
- Designed a mobile app for a B2B platform to track their sales.
- Carried out user stories and user research for a B2B platform.
- Conducted research for all of the company's products.
- Worked on most of the UI designs for the company's projects.
Technologies: Figma, UI Design, Web Design, InVision, InVision Studio, InVision App, Web UX, Web UX Design, UX Design, Web App Design, Web App Testing, User Research, Graphic Design
Education
2013 - 2017
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture
Oduduwa University - Osun, Nigeria
Certifications
DECEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
UX Design Fundamentals
Coursera
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