
Emmanuel Fadare
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since January 3, 2022
Emmanuel is a product designer with 7+ years of experience crafting intuitive SaaS and enterprise B2B solutions. He specializes in simplifying complex workflows in fintech, edtech, and analytics, creating scalable and user-friendly experiences. With a data-driven approach and a deep understanding of enterprise needs, he designs solutions that enhance efficiency and decision-making. Emmanuel takes full ownership of his work, ensuring every product delivers both functionality and impact.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer
EPIC Auto, Inc. (dba as EPIC)
- Collaborated on the design of the control centre admin platform, enabling EPIC's operations team to manage lender, dealer, and customer modules across a clearinghouse processing $23+ billion in vehicle loan payoffs.
- Designed customer management views that provided visibility into loan payoff status, equity payments, and title tracking across 1+ million processed vehicles.
- Wrote comprehensive user flow documentation in Notion, mapping end-to-end journeys across workflows to align product, engineering, and QA on expected UX behavior.
- Designed a deal tracker feature enabling ops teams to monitor transaction status across the loan payoff lifecycle.
Product Designer
Riva Money LTD
- Designed the landing page for Riva’s cross-border payments platform, crafting a clear value narrative, clean layout, and responsive UI. Focused on trust, conversion, and aligning visuals with the brand’s identity.
- Designed Riva’s pitch deck presentation, focusing on visual clarity, brand consistency, and storytelling. Translated complex product and business information into clean, engaging slides for investors and partners.
- Set up Riva’s design system, including components, typography, color styles, spacing tokens, and layout grids. Ensured consistency, scalability, and efficient handoff across all product modules and responsive breakpoints.
Product Designer
Construction Fixing Systems Ltd
- Streamlined load configuration workflow by introducing a table-based editor for T-bolts, allowing users to input multiple bolt parameters with rapid tap-through interaction and editable spacing.
- Designed an AI natural language prompt capability enabling users to simulate 3D structural models and modify parameters (e.g., load types and bolt positions) through conversational AI, streamlining engineering workflows for non-technical users.
- Implemented the structural simulation platform interface using Vercel's V0, enabling engineers to configure cast-in channels, slabs, and T-bolts with dynamic UI components and 3D previews.
Product Designer
Ethos Network, Inc.
- Increased user engagement and platform credibility by working on functionalities such as user reviews, vouching mechanisms, and Ethereum staking.
- Created an attestation process for linking Twitter accounts to user profiles, facilitating seamless verification and authentication while ensuring data integrity and security.
- Designed user profile pages to display account activity, credibility info and metrics, bios, and connected social network accounts, enhancing transparency and credibility within the platform's ecosystem.
- Designed a leaderboard feature, showcasing the most credible users and their accumulated points, fostering a competitive and trustworthy environment within the community.
Product Design Lead
Credrails
- Led the end-to-end redesign of a B2B SaaS financial reconciliation platform, delivering a streamlined user experience and improving workflow efficiency by 40%.
- Led the design and development of a B2B SaaS lending analytics solution, enabling clients to gain actionable insights into borrower behavior and risk assessment, driving customer adoption.
- Regularly collaborated with executive leadership to align design strategy with business objectives, ensuring measurable outcomes and customer satisfaction.
- Designed a Kanban-style exception management system, enabling users to resolve reconciliation issues like chargebacks and reversals efficiently.
- Developed a CSV File Validator, enhancing data accuracy by identifying and solving issues in transaction files before reconciliation, reducing delays by 30%.
Product Designer
Kapturly, LLC
- Designed an admin dashboard for managing a marketplace that involves different user types of clients and service providers, specifically photographers and videographers.
- Created a messaging tool that features group messaging for clients and service providers to communicate.
- Designed a platform for photographers and videographers.
UI/UX Designer
Alegra Learning Inc.
- Designed a teacher's portal in a learning management system to create personalized activities for kids and search for content more efficiently.
- Carried out usability testing with a group of representative users that involved observing users as they attempted to complete tasks.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify and prioritize features.
Product Designer
Thesimplecreator
- Designed an on-demand delivery technology solution for instant, scheduled, and pooled deliveries.
- Created design of a learning management system for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of information technology courses, training programs, and development programs.
- Designed a do-it-yourself music distribution platform to help artists upload music to Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon Music, and more.
- Set up a design of a commodity exchange trading platform for trading agricultural products and minerals.
- Made a mobile and web app to help startups and young African tech entrepreneurs source funding for their ideas and innovations. The app is a crowdfunding service for tech innovations across the continent and Africans in the diaspora.
- Designed a fintech solution to help individuals monitor their spending, pay bills, transfer money, and top up mobile internet data and airtime.
- Created two peer-to-peer wallet system mobile applications.
- Designed a networking platform that connected lawyers with clients in a way that made accessing justice seamless and efficient.
Senior Product Designer
FeetApart Wellness
- Improved the mobile app user interface and user experience.
- Gamified the product and created streak runs to increase user engagement and retention.
- Simplified processes within the mobile application.
Senior Product Designer
Software Business Solutions Consulting
- Led the design of a SaaS school management system integrating several school activities through a single sign-on interface that incorporates the parents, students, teachers, and other stakeholders in the administration and management of a school.
- Collaborated on designing an asset and inventory management web app for a leading African energy solutions provider.
- Collaborated on the design and UX research of a networking platform that connects the right lawyers to the right clients while facilitating access to justice and legal practice services to all.
- Designed an enterprise procurement software developed for a Bank. It manages all internal procurement processes from requesting to approvals.
- Led the design and wireframing of a job portal and career platform that lists candidate job applications for employers and helps connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring.
Product Designer
Orijin Interactive Design
- Designed product landing pages for an on-demand mobile delivery app.
- Created illustrations for a logistics mobile app onboarding.
- Illustrated design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.
Product Designer
Evi
- Led a design team that collaborated to create and implement design directions.
- Managed and performed product development, brand development, content strategy, content creation, flow diagrams, wireframes, and mockups.
- Created branding solutions for clients and increased the number of clients by 400%.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Landmark University - Kwara State, Nigeria, Africa
Certifications
UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems
Interaction Design: Interface
Applied Interaction Design: Onboarding Flow
Design Theory
Udemy
Skills
Tools
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop, Jira, Atlassian, Confluence, AI Tools, FigJam, Adobe CC, Miro, Claude, Sketch, Hotjar, FullStory, Spline
Platforms
Figma, Web, iOS, Android, Mobile, Webflow, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Real Estate, Education Technology (Edtech), Consumer Products, Transportation & Shipping, Logistics, Education, Marketing
Other
Interaction Design (IxD), User Experience (UX), Product Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, User Research, User Interface (UI), Online Delivery, App UI, Admin Panels, Mobile UI, Agile Sprints, B2B, B2C, Finance, App UX, Product Delivery, Grocery Delivery, Supply Chain, Agile, Admin Support, Web UI, Web App UI, Web App Design, Web Applications, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Mobile App UI, School, Higher Education, Websites, eCommerce UI, Marketplace Platforms, Mobile App Design, Gamification, Trading Systems, Crowdfunding, Landing Page Design, Storyboarding, Process Flows, Sitemaps, Product Development, Brand Design, Flow Diagrams, Mockups, Style Guides, Design Systems, UI Design, User Onboarding, User Interviews, User Surveys, Personas, Journey Mapping, User Testing, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Sketching, High-fidelity Prototypes, Mobile Banking, eCommerce, Information Architecture (IA), UX Design, Dashboard Design, Data Visualization, UX Research, App Design, Web UX, Mobile Apps, Fintech, Web Design, Visual Design, SaaS Design, MVP Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web Development, UI Development, Graphic Design, Mobile Design, SaaS, Enterprise SaaS, Web App UX, Enterprise Design, Customer Support, Customer Service, Web Portals, Mobile UX, Mobile Wallet, User Personas, Customer Journey, Persona Development, User Flows, Cryptocurrency Wallets, Branding, Edtech Design, User Journey Maps, Software, Analytics, Web UI Design, Form Design, Mobile First, Profile Design, Social Media Platforms, Web Platforms, UX Audits, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Cross-platform, Dashboards, Tables, UX Documentation, UX Workshops, Inventory Management, Content Management Systems (CMS), Quizzes, Competitive Analysis, User Journeys, UX Analysis, Feature Prioritization, Product Roadmaps, Annotated Wireframes, Best Practices in Design, Apps, UI Audits, Responsive Web Apps, Design Guidelines, Design Strategy, HR Tools, Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS), Payroll & Benefits, Enterprise Systems, Responsive Design, Interactive Design, UX Prototyping, Usability Heuristics, Lean UX, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Interactive Prototypes, Design Specifications, Digital Product Design, Design Workshops, File Management, Databases, Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise, Startups, Productivity, Enterprise Application Design, WebApp, Layout Design, Layout, DataViz, Landing Pages, UX Wireframes, Rapid Prototyping, Material Design, Web UX Design, Lean Startups, Research, Workshops, Marketplace Design, Blockchain, Blockchain Platforms, Marketplaces, Business to Business (B2B), Systems, System UI, Enterprise Startups, Legal, Law, SaaS Product Management, System Design, Maps, Interactive UI, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Heuristic Analysis, User Workflows, Web Dashboards, High-fidelity Mockups, User Validation, Stakeholder Management, Low-fidelity Mockups, Customer Experience Management, Customer Success, Logo Design, UX Branding, Component Libraries, UI Branding, AI Design, Chart Design, Visualization Design, Web3, Crypto, Loans & Lending, Educational Portals, Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Usability Testing, UI Prototyping, Brand Guidelines, Document Management, Complex Web Systems, Design Leadership, Scheduling Tools, Medical Software, Data-driven Design, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Notion, Credit Risk, Big Data, Lending, Risk Analysis, Core Banking Solutions (CBS), Loans, Personal Loans, SAP Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Software, Data-driven Decision-making, Healthtech, eCommerce Design, Web Application Design, Human-centered Design (HCD), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Internal Apps, Marketing Design, Office Supply Design, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Procurement, Approval, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), Desktop Web Design, AIOps, ChatGPT, Resumes & CVs, Resumes, Early-stage Startups, AI Assistants, Human-centered AI, AI-powered Product Design, Shadcn, Accessibility, Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Service Design, AI Agents, Enterprise UX Design, Usability, B2B2C, Portals, UI Style Guides, Responsive UI, Finance Reports, Use Cases, Storytelling, Design Thinking, Emotional Design, Vibe Coding, Lovable, AI Prompts, Prompt Engineering, User Experience Design, Online Sales, Voice Chat, Low-fidelity Prototypes, Digital Banking, Online Banking, PDF Design, Email Templates, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Cross-functional Team Collaboration, Discovery Workshops, WCAG 2, Token Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Website Design, Proptech, Claude Code, Audits, Presentation Design, UX Strategy, Cross-functional Collaboration, User-centered Design (UCD), AI Chatbots, Large Language Models (LLMs), iOS App Design, UI Components, CRM Design, Agile UX, Holistic UX Design, Responsive Development, Click-through Rates (CTR), Content Strategy, Content Creation, Recruitment, Design Production, SAS Visual Analytics, Content Management, WordPress Design, Job Boards, Job Search Sites, Career Coaching, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), resume builder ux, Conversational UX, Interview Simulation Design, Resumes & Cover Letters, CareerTech, 3D, 3D CAD, 3D Simulations, Kanban
Experience
- UI Design - 7 years
- SaaS - 7 years
- User Experience (UX) - 7 years
- SaaS Design - 7 years
- B2B - 7 years
- Web App Design - 7 years
- Figma - 7 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 4 years
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