Afeez Yunus
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since December 16, 2021
Afeez is a product designer who excels at solving remarkably complex design problems and creating innovative user journeys and experiences with boundary-pushing solutions that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are functional. With seven years of experience, he has designed web and mobile platforms in banking and online marketplaces for technical and marketing professionals, chefs, and cleaning services. Afeez's professional experience is backed by a bachelor's degree in computer science.
Experience
- Interactive UI - 5 years
- Figma - 5 years
- Web Design - 5 years
- UI Design - 5 years
- Mobile UI - 5 years
- Component Libraries - 5 years
- Responsive Web Apps - 5 years
- Product Design - 4 years
Portfolio
Work Experience
Figma Designer
Creolytix GMBH
- Designed and prototyped a client dashboard to implement user drill-down functionality for intelligence data.
- Liaised with stakeholders and the engineering team to create an interactive prototype for a complex web application through research, page and user flow diagrams, data visualization, and interactive wireframes, which increased user satisfaction.
- Analyzed working concepts launched by competitors of similar products to match quality and performance.
Product Designer
55 REDEFINED LTD
- Collaborated with product teams in an Agile environment to develop user personas, user flow maps, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes for a fintech design system update.
- Focused on user-centered design principles to create simple and intuitive user interfaces.
- Created, published, and maintained complex yet flexible design systems implemented in custom solutions.
- Modified and revised existing designs to meet changing customer preferences.
- Leveraged user feedback, activity, research, and metrics to iterate and enhance user experience.
- Analyzed working concepts launched by competitors of similar products to match quality and performance.
- Collaborated with other designers to maintain design consistency and coherence across the features on the designed apps and websites.
Senior Product Designer
Datacie
- Collaborated with the CEO, marketing, and engineering teams to deliver the Ul and UX experiences with a lean design process focusing on research, design, testing, and iteration.
- Simplified user workflow and data mining processes by obtaining user data with participatory design techniques, testing, and task analysis. Leveraged the data to create iterative improvements, increasing user satisfaction by 20%.
- Created interactive designs for a complex web application through research, page and user flow diagrams, site maps, data visualization, and interactive wireframes, leading to an increase in user satisfaction rate.
Senior Product Designer
XWP
- Focused on user-centered design principles, creating simple and intuitive user interfaces that resulted in an increase of over 23% in revenue growth.
- Created, published, and maintained complex yet flexible design systems implemented in custom solutions.
- Modified and revised existing designs to meet changing customer preferences.
- Leveraged user feedback, activity, research, and metrics to iterate and enhance user experience.
- Analyzed working concepts launched by competitors of similar products to match quality and performance.
- Collaborated with other designers to maintain design consistency and coherence across features on the designed apps and websites.
Senior Product Designer
Homebox
- Simplified and designed a web platform that connects families with moving companies.
- Built a brand identity guide, including colors and typography.
- Created user personas based on the data provided by the user surveys I conducted.
- Designed low- and high-fidelity wireframes and complete design systems for the solutions mentioned above.
Product Designer
FixChores | Online Freelance Marketplace
- Designed a service request and bookings platform to streamline data input and collection. Redefined forms and data collection on similar solutions.
- Designed a complex CRM system for a solution in the foodtech industry.
- Created user stories for personas based on data gathered in a user survey.
- Designed low-fidelity wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and complete design systems.
Senior Product Designer
Grimux Tech
- Led a team of three to design the admin side of a fintech web application to manage and control payments and transactions made by different tiers of users.
- Redesigned a mobile banking platform to accommodate underserved users and increase accessibility, which led to rethinking the mobile banking experience in Nigeria’s finance sector.
- Redesigned a freelance management application from a web platform to mobile, increasing accessibility and ease of freelance management by 33%.
- Created user stories for personas based on user surveys for the projects mentioned above.
- Designed low-fidelity prototypes and complete design systems for solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Online Freelance Marketplace
- Led a team of four to design a CRM system to manage a network of customers, consultants, and users across many features, thereby improving accessibility in the CRM solutions.
- Designed a freelance management platform for clients and integrated it with project management features to simplify project management, implementation, and execution in the freelance sector.
- Designed a freelance job acceptance and management platform for talents to simplify project accessibility and execution in the freelance sector.
- Created user personas based on the data provided by the user surveys I conducted.
- Designed low- and high-fidelity wireframes and complete design systems for the solutions mentioned above.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Lagos - Lagos, Nigeria
Skills
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, After Effects CC, Rive, Sketch, InVision, Miro, Hotjar, InVision Studio, InVision App, Balsamiq, Jira, Balsamiq Mockups, Adobe
Platforms
Figma, Mobile, iOS, Web, Android, Salesforce, Webflow, Webflow CMS, Shopify, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Information Technology, Professional Services, Creative Tech, Hospitality, Health & Wellness
Languages
HTML5, CSS, HTML
Other
Product Design, UX Research, UI Design, Web Design, Framer, eCommerce UI, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, UI Motion, Motion Graphics, Creative Thinking, B2C, B2B, Dashboards, Web UI Design, Web App Design, B2C Marketing, Freelancing, Accessibility, Mobile Banking, Online Banking, Product Branding, Tailwind CSS, Web App UX, Web App UI, Web Applications, Mobile App Design, Mobile App UI, Mobile Apps, Web & Mobile Applications, Design Systems, Design Guidelines, UI Frameworks, Web Components, UI Components, Component Libraries, User Flows, User Personas, Form Design, User Surveys, User Stories, Wireframing, Low-fidelity Prototypes, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Team Leadership, Typography, Style Guides, User Permissions, Set Design, Prototyping, UX Design, eCommerce, Web UI, Web UX, Web UX Design, Dashboard Design, Web Dashboards, Data Visualization, Responsive UI, Agile UX, Responsive Web Design (RWD), User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Desktop App Design, Analytical Dashboards, Web Page Mockups, Websites, Visual Design, Enterprise SaaS, Enterprise Design, SaaS, SaaS Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), Landing Pages, Landing Page Design, Design Thinking, Mobile Design, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, High-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Prototypes, Interactive Prototypes, CRM Design, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Interaction Design (IxD), Lottie, UI Animation, MVP Design, Fintech, Mobile Applications, User Research, Information Architecture (IA), UI Prototyping, Design Ops, Best Practices in Design, Branding, Layout, UI Libraries, UI Pattern Library, Design Leadership, Storytelling, Motion Design, Product Pages, Scroll Animations, Layout Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Onboarding, Responsive Web Apps, Animated Prototypes, Animation, Microinteractions, Animated Interactions, Apps, Interactive UI, System Design, Discovery Workshops, Web Animation, Usability, UX Wireframes, Agile, Widgets, User Interviews, Marketing Tools, UI Audits, Web Analytics, Analytics, Data Analysis, Content Management Systems (CMS), Product Detail Pages, Microcopy, App Design, Mockups, White Label Design, Lean UX, Usability Testing, Illustration, Presentation Design, Annotated Wireframes, UX Strategy, User Experience Design, B2B Lead Generation, Product Mapping, User Journey Maps, QA Testing, Digital Banking, Responsive Layout, Marketplaces, User-centered Design (UCD), Journey Mapping, Marketplace Design, eCommerce UX, Web App Testing, Low Code, Conversion Rate, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Product Discovery, Consumer Behavior, User Engagement, Customer Journey, User Validation, Gamification, Heuristic Analysis, Medtech, Data-informed Visual Design, Service Design, Team Management, Business Intelligence (BI), UX Audits, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Marketing Automation, Product Management, CRM APIs, Email Templates, Consumer Banking, Bank Transactions, Investment Banking, Finance, Investing, Stock Market, Mental Model, User Journeys, Financials, Shopify API, User Testing, Financial UX, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Notion, Databases, Apiary API, APIs, Data, Graph Databases, Database Design, Insurance APIs, Insurance Processing, Touchscreens, Responsive Design, Enterprise Systems, Enterprise Startups, Project Management, B2B2C
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