Emmanuel Fadare
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since January 3, 2022
Emmanuel is a product designer with 6+ 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
Source-to-settle (S2S) Procurement and Inventory Management System
Work Experience
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 service to all.
- Co-designed a platform that increases timely and efficient access to emergency medical services.
- 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, Confluence, AI Tools, Atlassian, Sketch, Hotjar, FullStory, FigJam
Platforms
Figma, Web, iOS, Android, Mobile, Webflow, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Education Technology (Edtech), Consumer Products, Transportation & Shipping, Logistics, Education, Real Estate
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, Supply Chain, Agile, 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, Landing Page Design, Storyboarding, Process Flows, Sitemaps, Product Development, Brand Design, Mockups, Style Guides, Design Systems, UI Design, User Onboarding, User Interviews, User Surveys, Journey Mapping, User Testing, 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, Web Portals, Mobile UX, User Personas, Customer Journeys, 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, 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), 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, 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, 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), Healthtech, eCommerce Design, Web Application Design, Human-centered Design (HCD), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Internal Apps, Marketing Design, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), iOS App Design, UI Components, CRM Design, UX Audits, Agile UX, Holistic UX Design, Responsive Development, Blockchain, Blockchain Platforms, Product Delivery, Grocery Delivery, Admin Support, Crowdfunding, Content Strategy, Content Creation, Flow Diagrams, Personas, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Sketching, Customer Service, Mobile Wallet, Payroll & Benefits, Recruitment, Enterprise Systems, Design Production, SAS Visual Analytics, Content Management, WordPress Design, Learning, Notion, Credit Risk, Big Data, Lending, Risk Analysis, Core Banking Solutions (CBS), Loans, Personal Loans, SAP Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Software, Data-driven Decision-making, Office Supply Design, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Procurement, Approval
Experience
- B2C - 6 years
- B2B - 6 years
- Figma - 6 years
- UI Design - 5 years
- User Experience (UX) - 5 years
- Web App Design - 5 years
- SaaS Design - 4 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 3 years
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