Damola Taiwo

Designer in Lagos, Nigeria

Member since September 30, 2020

Damola is a senior UX/UI designer with over a decade of experience designing products that solve business problems and create delightful experiences for users. As head of a creative agency, he has delivered projects for clients across multiple verticals, including governments, airlines, financial institutions, entertainment, tech companies, and startups. Damola is passionate about user-centered design and likes to explore new opportunities.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Consumer Fintech Product - Group Pay
- Fintech
NYC's Top Growth Marketing Agency - Teknicks
- Digital Marketing
- UI
Marketplace for Introductions - Introducely
- Consumer-facing Product Design
Music Streaming Mobile App | MyMusic
- Mobile Apps
- Music Industry
- UI Design
- Wireframing
- Usability Testing
- Prototyping
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- iOS
- Sketch
- InVision
- User Personas
- User Flows
- Music Streaming
- Audio
- Adobe Photoshop
- Personas
- Analytics
- Product Design
- iOS UI Design
Loan Finance Web and Mobile App | e-Finance
- Fintech
- Finance
- Corporate Finance
- Personal Finance
- Loans
- Loans & Lending
- Wireframing
- User Interface (UI)
- UI Design
- Cross-platform
- UX Design
- Mobile UX
- Banking & Finance
- SaaS
- Agile
- Design
- Competitor Analysis & Profiling
- Web App Design
Evagrin Kids
- Tablet UX
- Mobile (Tablet)
- Kids & Families
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Media
- UX Research
- Visual Design
- Wireframing
- Ethnographic Studies
- User Flows
- Usability Testing
- Figma
- iPad
- Prototyping
- Video Streaming
- User Personas
- Personas
- Customer Research
- Web Design
- iOS App Design
Trichem Industries
- Websites
- Corporate Design
- Wireframing
- UX Research
- Visual Design
- Responsive UI
- Mobile UX
- Information Architecture (IA)
- Figma
- InVision
- Desktop
- Mobile
- Concept Sketching
- Minimal UI
- UX Flows
- Mobile UX Design
- Mobile Design
MyMusic Mobile Site
- Mobile Web
- Mobile UI
- HTML
- CSS
- User Research
- UX
- Visual Design
- UX Branding
- UI Design
- Growth Hacking
- Emerging Markets
- Dashboards
- Music Industry
- Sketch
- Design Systems
- Wireframing
- User Personas
- User Flows
- InVision
- Personas
- Project Estimation
- UI
Fenchurch Group
- Websites
- UX Research
- Information Architecture (IA)
- Wireframing
- Corporate Websites
- UI Design
- Web UI
- Mobile UI
- Usability Testing
- Sketch
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Experience Design (XD)
- Visual Design
- Project Timelines

Employment

Senior UX Designer
2020 - 2020
e-Finance Limited
- Carried out a quantitative and qualitative analysis, user interviews, and a competitive analysis for the loan finance app.
- Led ideation sessions with top management to develop new user flows for administering the loan origination and loan servicing processes.
- Designed high-fidelity UI screens and developed interactive prototypes.
- Carried out user testing in an iterative loop while updating the prototype using details from lessons learned.
Technologies: Miro, Zeplin, Figma
Senior Product Designer
2008 - 2020
Unotech Media
- Worked on UX research, ideation, UX flows, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity designs for various client briefs.
- Helped various clients such as airlines, financial institutions, governments, technology companies, and startups successfully launch digital products and websites.
- Led the overall digital design direction for the company and helped position the company as a leading design agency.
- Evangelized the role of a good user experience to clients and helped them achieve their business goals through the deployment of websites and digital products.
- Ensured the continuous success and growth of my team and the company.
Technologies: Zeplin, Webflow, Miro, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Design
Co-founder | Lead Designer
2015 - 2019
MyMusic Internet
- Conducted industry research, feasibility studies, user interviews, and observational studies.
- Led the ideation workshops with stakeholders to guide the vision for the product.
- Designed information architecture, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI screens for mobile and web formats.
- Worked with developers to ensure pixel-perfect development, maintain user goals, and guide the entire customer journey experience.
- Conducted usability testing and helped to launch and grow the platform to 10 million users; was featured on CNN.
Technologies: Mixpanel, UXCam, Google Analytics, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Sketch
Front-end Web Designer
2004 - 2007
Clients (via Aquent Partners, London)
- Contracted for various companies in the United Kingdom on front-end web design roles. Companies include ASOS.com, Virgin Media, NTL Telewest, Emperor Design, and Scottish Power.
- Worked on wireframing and high-fidelity UI designs for clients.
- Marked up websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and worked with developers to maintain goals.
Technologies: Front-end Design, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Design

Other Experience

Delight Users With These Mobile App Design Best Practices (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/mobile/mobile-app-design-best-practices
Following these strategies will ensure your mobile product delivers an optimal experience.
Think Business: How to Increase Your Designer Value (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/product-design/designer-value
The principles that govern design are foreign to many business leaders but it takes more than shiny deliverables to span the knowledge gap. Designers must translate design value into business value.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
2000 - 2004
Babcock University - Ogun State, Nigeria

Experience

UX Research10 years
Prototyping10 years
User Experience (UX)10 years
User Interface (UI)10 years
Usability Testing10 years
Sketch5 years
InVision3 years
Figma3 years

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Figma
InVision

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