Publication
Navigating the Product Design Process: A 6-step Guide to Superior Digital Products
https://www.toptal.com/designers/product-design/product-design-process
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Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Toptal member since August 18, 2022
Bio
Christian is a senior product designer with 7 years of experience creating AI, enterprise, and B2B SaaS products from concept to scale. He combines research, UX/UI, rapid prototyping, and design systems to simplify complex, regulated workflows. His work has collectively reached 150+ million users across Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia. Across the AI product lifecycle, he supported a 15,000-user launch in under 90 days and enterprise growth to $1.1 million ARR with 51 university partners.
Portfolio
SquadPal | A Mobile App for Remote Teams
User FlowsInteractive UXUser Interviews
CoinbyCedar3
User InterviewsUser Flows
Wagmi
User Flows
Electronic Document Management and Workflow Approval System
User InterviewsUser FlowsInteractive UX
SmartInvest | A Smart Investment Platform
User Interviews
Tarsk
Interactive UX
HelpStation | A Healthcare Logistics Platform for Emergencies
Interactive UXUser FlowsUser Interviews
Work Experience
Product Design Lead
2023 - PRESENT
Coverai.co
- Led both customer and market research. Designed, managed, and launched the Coverai web application from the ground up.
- Collaborated with the engineering team to align the information architecture, user journey map, interaction design, visual design, and video and audio processing for the web application.
- Led the research and improvement of the marketing site, which led to more user conversions.
Technologies: Agile
UI/UX Designer
2023 - 2023
Truthifi, Inc.
- Worked directly with the head of design to establish a dark theme direction for the existing product.
- Designed the messaging and global search features.
- Aligned on design decisions and iterations like deciding the direction for empty states of all existing flows.
Technologies: Agile
UX/UI Designer
2023 - 2023
Mustafa Muse
- Collaborated closely with the founding team to scope features and align on both design and product strategies.
- Led the end-to-end product design process, including developing a style guide that enabled the team to build consistent screens faster.
- Contributed to strategy development and determining and scoping out the MVP features.
Technologies: User Flows, Agile
Product Design Lead
2023 - 2023
Accountable TechServe Inc
- Served as a product designer leading the Toptal Projects team, which consisted of back-end, front-end, and product managers under a delivery manager.
- Spearheaded the research and discovery phase, which involved speaking to existing and potential customers to understand their needs and expectations.
- Aligned and worked closely with the founder to design AI-enabled accounting software for SMEs and accountants.
- Led the research, design, and implementation of the Accountable website using Figma and Webflow.
Technologies: User Flows, Agile
UI/UX Designer
2023 - 2023
PD4 Solutions LLC
- Collaborated closely with the founding team to scope features and align on both design and product strategies.
- Led the user research and end-to-end product design process, including developing a style guide that enabled the team to build consistent screens faster.
- Oversaw the design and implementation of visual assets and the marketing site using Figma and Webflow, respectively.
Technologies: Agile
Lead Product Designer
2021 - 2022
Chaka
- Led the research, UX, and UI design improvements of the Chaka web and mobile trading platform to reduce onboarding dropoffs by 70%, significantly increasing our customer base and leading to a $1.5 million pre-seed.
- Led the SmartInvest design, which has helped over 100,000+ people to kickstart their investment journey since its launch.
- Oversaw the user research and design of various optimizations, which helped improve usability and reduced the number of clicks and steps customers took to achieve specific tasks.
- Led the design and maintenance of the design system, ensuring consistency across our various product offerings.
- Encouraged a culture that enhanced growth, trust, and transparency within the design team.
Technologies: User Interviews, Agile
Founding Product Designer
2021 - 2022
SquadPal
- Worked closely with the founding team to lead research and end-to-end product redesign efforts, resulting in a 40% increase in user retention and a 55% increase in user engagement.
- Optimized the activity creation flow, reducing the average activity creation time from 3 minutes to less than 30 seconds.
- Collaborated closely with the product manager to declutter and rework the information architecture of our user onboarding flow, leading to a 53% increase in customer activation.
- Partnered with the founding team to research and design a Slack extension application, enabling us to acquire more customers.
- Designed an MVP version of the design system that ensured the team could build consistent UI components faster.
Technologies: User Interviews, Agile
Product Designer
2020 - 2021
Software Business Solutions Consulting
- Collaborated closely with the business development team to create a proof of concept UI for RFPs and led prototype presentations that won two out of three project bids.
- Led design in a cross-functional team to deliver an emergency healthcare system in collaboration with key healthcare stakeholders in Nigeria to combat the high death rate caused by a lack of emergency responses.
- Digitalized a 3-decade-long trade expo for Shell's corporative, Lagos, that led to over 150% growth in revenue within the first two weeks of launch.
- Led the end-to-end product design of an internal enterprise content management (ECM) system for a top Nigerian financial institution called Titan Trust Bank.
- Constantly worked in a cross-functional agile team of designers, devs, and PMs to drive product alignment around a core set of business goals that continuously exceeded client expectations.
Technologies: User Interviews, Agile
UI/UX Designer
2019 - 2020
Genrosys
- Worked closely with PMs and other stakeholders within the logistics ecosystem to design a forward and reverse logistics system for mobile and web platforms.
- Joined the design lead on my team to work on a startup and talent incubation web application.
- Collaborated with a product owner and product manager to design a crowdfunding platform that had a huge impact within the first three months of launch.
Technologies: Agile
UX Designer
2018 - 2020
CampHouse
- Worked closely with the founding team to conduct market and user research and organize product roadmap.
- Led UX initiatives that included designing storyboards, user journey maps, sketches, and wireframes.
- Led initial growth initiatives to land the first few customers.
Technologies: User Interviews, Agile
Other Experience
Certifications
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products
Product School
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
Product Masterclass: Product Design
Product School
Skills
Tools
GitHub
Other
User Flows, User Interviews, Interactive UX, Agile, Product Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Design
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