
Dapo Momodu
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since October 25, 2022
Dapo is a UI/UX designer and developer with 10+ years of experience. He has redesigned and developed several user-facing products published on the App Store and Google Play. Dapo worked cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and engineering teams to introduce a new design system that led to a 62% increase in customer satisfaction and the emergence of a seed-funded startup. With broad experience in product design, Dapo excels at collaborating with new and existing teams.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead UI/UX Designer
MyXalary
- Identified opportunities to invent and experiment with new technology, interaction patterns, and concepts that impacted customers and MyXalary roadmaps.
- Managed a virtual team of five designers using Microsoft Teams, Jira, Figma, Bitbucket, Google Drive, and Slack for administration, communication, collaboration, and reporting.
- Dove deep into consumer insights, product analytics, and competitive intelligence to drive product innovation by applying the most appropriate design thinking methodologies.
- Oversaw concept development during ideation sessions and design reviews.
- Utilized business requirements, market research, and customer feedback to create customer journeys and use cases in storyboards, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that defined the product.
Lead UI/UX Designer
ATB Tech
- Served as the primary point of contact for all UX-related activities associated with my workstream.
- Managed a team of five designers by conducting daily virtual standup meetings and weekly virtual retrospectives and using Jira for design sprints and task management and Figma for collaborative design.
- Led communication and collaboration among product owners and development team stakeholders to ensure the alignment of UX deliverables.
- Collaborated and built consensus with key stakeholders, representing the user's point of view and striking a balance between the ideal and the realities of feasibility and delivery.
- Redesigned flagship products and paved the way for seed funding through design advocacy.
- Converted designs from Figma to code using Bootstrap and WordPress.
- Created email marketing templates for business development and digital marketing teams.
UI/UX Developer
Creativelopers
- Led the creation of design sketches, wireframes, and interactive prototypes to inform feature development.
- Ensured that digital principles, standards, styles, design patterns, and renderings were followed and represented correctly.
- Focused on the big picture and made good design decisions that sometimes required trade-offs between business goals and design standards.
- Redesigned the company logo, conducted rebranding, and set the tone for the organization.
- Developed an affiliate marketing web app using a combination of WordPress, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL.
Social Media Evaluator
Appen
- Provided feedback on news feeds, advertisements, and search results. My ideas directly impacted the services and content from social media sites that people use daily.
- Carried out proper research to ensure that the data that needed to be verified were either false or factual in context.
- Scrutinized videos, blogs, and articles that could help protect a large social media platform and followers from misinformation, misrepresentation, misunderstanding, and possible chaos.
- Helped stop the spread of fake and false news from one of the biggest social media platforms.
Web Developer | Tutor
Mindmachine
- Developed student feedback forms using Bootstrap 4 and the PHP mail function.
- Upgraded an existing website project that was built using the CodeIgniter framework.
- Taught front- and back-end web development to students using HTML, CSS, Vanilla JS, Node.js, Git, Git Bash, GitHub pages, phpMyAdmin, PHP, and MySQL.
- Tutored students on WordPress for web development and blogging, plugin installation, and debugging in PHP.
Web Developer | IT Support Officer | Social Media Manager
Gabson Engineering Services
- Built and maintained web applications, such as daily reporting apps, websites, document repositories, and eCommerce web applications.
- Managed the company web server and emails using IMAP protocols in Microsoft Outlook for easy delivery to staff computers and mobile phones.
- Advocated to migrate a web server from poorly maintained shared hosting to a private server with multiple hosting options at GoDaddy.com.
- Redesigned and branded the organization and sister companies' logos, stationery, and artifacts and positioned the company to have a strong online presence using modern web design and SEO practices.
- Administrated, reported, and posted social media content from graphics designed in Adobe Suite to various platforms to improve the company's digital presence.
- Maintained, repaired, and troubleshot computer hardware and peripherals.
Web Developer
Webtekniks
- Built a custom eCommerce platform using PHP MVC to manage data complexity and phpMyAdmin for database management and schema design.
- Developed multiple websites from PSD to HTML and WordPress and hosted them on their respective domains using FileZilla for FTP connections and cPanel wherever applicable.
- Designed flyers, logos, brochures, stationeries, and promotional materials for clients using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Education
Associate Degree in Peace and Security Studies
Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Nigeria
Certifications
Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments
University of California | via Coursera
User Experience: Research & Prototyping
University of California | via Coursera
Information Design
University of California | via Coursera
Social Computing
University of California | via Coursera
Input and Interaction
University of California | via Coursera
Design Principles: an Introduction
University of California | via Coursera
Human-Centered Design: an Introduction
University of California | via Coursera
Skills
Tools
FigJam, Jira, Adobe CS6, Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Miro, Google Forms, Adobe Creative Suite, Zoom, Trello, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Microsoft Office, PhpMyAdmin, Balsamiq, Sublime Text 3, InVision Studio, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Workday Payroll, Google Meet
Languages
HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript
Platforms
Figma, WordPress, Android, iOS, SoundCloud, cPanel, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Web, Mobile, NetBeans, Axure, RStudio, XAMPP, Google Chrome
Other
Bootstrap, UI Design, UX Design, Interaction Design (IxD), User Research, Flowcharts, PSD to WordPress, User Interviews, Customer Journeys, Information Architecture (IA), Prototyping, Wireframing, Style Guides, Usability Testing, Chrome, Google, Web Design, Web App Design, Paper Prototyping, Heuristic Evaluation, Design Research, Information Design, User Experience (UX), A/B Testing, User Experience Design, Personas, User Journey Maps, Fintech, Mobile App Design, UX Wireframes, Web App UX, Web App UI, Onboarding, Product Design, Web UI Design, Case Studies, User Flows, Design Thinking, User Surveys, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Visual Design, Websites, Email Design, B2B, B2C, Data Visualization, SaaS, SaaS Design, Dashboard Design, Dashboards, Brand Design, Mobile App UI, Healthcare Management Systems, eCommerce, eCommerce UI, eCommerce UX, Design Systems, App Design, Landing Page Design, Brand Guidelines, Best Practices in Design, Workflow, Interactive Prototypes, High-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Prototypes, Responsive Design, Component Libraries, Mobile Design, Presentations, Automation, Microsoft Teams, Windows 10, PSD to HTML, FileZilla, User Journeys, GoDaddy, UX Prototyping, Mockups, UI Prototyping, CRM Design, Qualitative Research, Communication, Research Reports, Web UX Design, WordPress Design, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Content Management Systems (CMS), Layout, Business Intelligence (BI), Software as a Service (SaaS), eCommerce Design, Participant Observation, UX Audits, Medtech, Wamp, MySQL, Node.js, Heuristics, Storyboarding, Responsive UI, User Personas, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface (UI), Community Development, Collaboration, Interviewing, Scheduling, Payroll & Benefits, Branding, UX Research, Logo Design, jQuery, Surveys, Reporting
Experience
- Visual Design - 14 years
- Design Research - 14 years
- Design Thinking - 14 years
- UX Design - 14 years
- UI Design - 14 years
- User Research - 13 years
- WordPress - 12 years
- Bootstrap - 12 years
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