Christian Adolphus
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Toptal member since August 18, 2022
Christian is an experienced product designer who enjoys working with ambitious teams to bring ideas to life by leveraging growth-driven design. During his career, he has led the design team of a growth stage startup, worked as the founding product designer, worked in a cross-functional design team, and built and managed two design systems. Christian is an excellent communicator, team player, and good stakeholder manager. His product experience cuts across B2B, B2C, and SaaS enterprise software.
Portfolio
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Work Experience
Product Design Lead
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.
UI/UX Designer
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.
UX/UI Designer
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.
Product Design Lead
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.
UI/UX Designer
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.
Lead Product Designer
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.
Founding Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
UI/UX Designer
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.
UX Designer
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.
Certifications
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products
Product School
Product Masterclass: Product Design
Product School
Learn the Agile Methodology
Udemy
Android Basics Nanodegree Program
Udacity
Skills
Tools
Zeplin, Trello, ProtoPie, Miro, Jira, Lucidchart, Maze, Adobe Experience Design (XD), InVision App, InVision, Adobe CC, Sketch
Platforms
Figma, iOS, Webflow, Webflow CMS, Android, WordPress, Mobile
Industry Expertise
Health & Wellness, Consumer Products, Games, Investments
Languages
HTML, CSS
Other
Product Design, Design Thinking, Design Systems, User Research, Product Strategy, Prototyping, Visual Design, Web Design, Wireframing, Mobile App Design, iOS UI Design, High-fidelity Mockups, Mobile Design, UI Design, UX Design, Digital Product Design, Information Architecture (IA), User Testing, Productivity, Customer Engagement, User Flows, User Personas, User Stories, Redesign, Brainstorming, Customer Journeys, Dashboard Design, User Journey Maps, Stakeholder Interviews, User Interviews, Surveys, Contextual Inquiry, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), Web Dashboards, Storyboarding, Web App Testing, User Roles, Interactive UX, UI Prototyping, Style Guides, Experience Design, SaaS, Enterprise Design, Mobile UI, PWA, Fintech, Dashboards, User Validation, Iterative Testing, Iterative Design, Personas, IA Strategy, UX Strategy, User Validation Testing, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, UX Flows, Web UI, User Journeys, Web UX, Competitive Analysis, User Surveys, A/B Testing, UX Wireframes, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Information Design, Digital Storyboards, Responsive Web Design (RWD), B2B, Responsive UI, Web UI Design, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Websites, Mobile UX Design, UX Research, UX Audits, Web App Design, UI Components, eCommerce, Usability Testing, Interface Design, Data Visualization, Web UX Design, Landing Page Design, Web App UI, Web App UX, Lean UX, Audits, Mockups, SaaS Design, Content Management Systems (CMS), Website Builders, Financial Design, Component Libraries, UX Writing, Qualitative Research, Research Reports, Communication, App Design, Design Guidelines, User-centered Design (UCD), ChatGPT, Landing Pages, Layout Design, UI Audits, Interactive Prototypes, Social Media, App UI, Quantitative Research, Proof of Concept (POC), Software as a Service (SaaS), CRM Design, Responsive Web Apps, Layout, Validated User Research, Remote User Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Unmoderated Remote Usability Testing, Accessibility, Quantitative User Research, Heuristic Analysis, Heuristic Evaluation, Startups, Web Applications, Analytical Dashboards, Rapid Prototyping, High-fidelity Prototypes, Feature Prioritization, Lean Product Development, ClickUp, Research, Social Engagement, Gamification, Interaction Design (IxD), Branding, Design Documentation, Documentation, Content Strategy, Feature Roadmaps, Feature Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Agile Sprints, Mobile Wallet, Finance, Investment Strategy, Agile UX, Systems Thinking, Healthcare IT, Interactive UI, Investing, Agile, Web Accessibility, Contextual Design, Digital Health, Stakeholder Mapping, B2C, Design Strategy, UX Mentoring, Mentorship & Coaching, Mentorship, Team Leadership, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Rewards Programs, Design Leadership, Logo Design, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Human-machine Interface (HMI), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), Portfolio Management, Podcasting, Audio, Books, Web Audio, Mobile UX, 3D, Game Assets, Data Analysis, Usability Heuristics, User Retention, User Engagement, Competition Research, Pencil Sketches, User Experience Design, User Authentication, Mobile UI Design, Web & Mobile Applications, Machine Learning, AI Design, Web App Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), No-code Development, Conversion Rate, Notion, Website Redesign, Website Optimization, Video & Audio Processing
Experience
- User Research - 5 years
- User Experience (UX) - 5 years
- Product Design - 5 years
- Product Strategy - 4 years
- SaaS - 4 years
- Fintech - 4 years
- User Interface (UI) - 4 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 2 years
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