Chike Ononye
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Toptal member since April 8, 2021
Chike is a product designer with more than seven years of experience designing intuitive, enjoyable, and user-centered SaaS products across the web and mobile for SaaS businesses in fintech, identity, retail, and other industries. He is particular about attention to detail and is experienced in solving complex problems
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product and Design Lead
Thepeer
- Led design across multiple payment products (checkout, payment link, direct debit, and more), which saw the business process $25+ million in transaction volume, growing 161% MoM at peak.
- Led workflow designs for third-party integrations with various banks and fintech companies (Kuda, Chipper Cash, Pocket, and more), reducing integration time by 35%.
- Revamped the business onboarding flow and improved the go-live approval process by 92%.
- Contributed to the development of the "Peerless" design system that created reusable components, ensuring consistency across our products.
Lead Product Designer
Softcom
- Led extensive user research and design for Usepass—an identity management and access control product enabling businesses to create, share, and authenticate IDs without paper or card, verifying over 200,000 IDs.
- Converted challenges to opportunities and identified pain points around four critical user problems.
- Contributed to the product and design effort, leading to Usepass being used at the biggest music festivals, events, and concerts, verifying and granting access to more than 200,000 attendees in 100+ spaces.
- Issued and verified IDs for Grammy-nominated rapper Olamide's Live in Lagos concert with Phyno (5,000+ IDs) and Lagos Food Festival (4,000+ IDs), among others.
- Led the design of PassID's products from idea to launch. Collaborated with stakeholders across product, business, and engineering, onboarding hundreds of agents and farmers.
- Interviewed 20+ potential users to understand existing pain points, which informed design decisions.
- Conducted usability tests to gather feedback and make improvements to reduce business churn by 15%.
Product Designer
PayfastQ
- Collaborated closely with stakeholders and developers remotely across Africa and Asia on the PayFast product experience.
- Made the checkout process seamless for retailers in Singapore and reduced checkout time by at least 20% for the above-mentioned product.
- Managed and implemented stakeholders' feedback as a sole product designer in a cross-functional team of five consisting of engineers and decision-makers designing both web and mobile retail experiences.
UI/UX Designer
Freelance
- Created user interfaces (mobile and web) for different clients and products. Helped a client onboard 100+ customers in their 1st month.
- Conceptualized various designed solutions for business stakeholders and products across five different projects.
- Grew user engagement by 10% monthly, working with UX writers and product marketing.
Education
International Foundation Programme in Computer Science
Westerfield College - Lagos, Nigeria
West African Secondary School Certificate Examination in Sciences
King's College - Lagos, Nigeria
Certifications
Marketing Foundation: Competitive Market Analysis
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner Certification
IBM
Skills
Tools
Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch
Platforms
Mobile, Web, Android, iOS
Industry Expertise
Consumer Products, Marketing
Other
User Experience (UX), UX Prototyping, Web Design, User Research, Digital Product Design, UI Design, UX Design, iOS UI Design, Product Design, Web UX Design, Dashboard Design, Mobile Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), User Interviews, UX Research, Mobile App Design, Wireframing, Human-centered Design (HCD), Visual Design, Design Leadership, Responsive Web Apps, Information Architecture (IA), Web App Design, Journey Mapping, User Personas, Research, Edtech Design, B2B, Web UI Design, A/B Testing, Product Videos, Design Systems, Market Research, User Interface (UI), Product Management, Marketplaces, Mockups, Style Guides, UX Wireframes, User Flows, App Design, Landing Page Design, System Design, Customer Journeys, B2C, Conversational Interfaces, MVP Design, B2B2C, Financial Services, UX Strategy, User-centered Design (UCD), Prototyping, Rapid Prototyping, User Testing, eCommerce, Mobile UI, Interface Design, Web App UI, Web App UX, Web Applications, CX Strategy, Design Strategy, Executive Presentations, Leadership, Presentation Design, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, UX Leadership, SaaS, Usability Testing, Social Media, Startups, Branding, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Data Analysis, Enterprise Design, Fintech
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