Kayode Sholanke
Verified Expert in Design
Product Designer
Manchester, United Kingdom
Toptal member since January 12, 2022
Kayode is an enthusiastic product designer shaping the future of design. He loves creating user-friendly, enjoyable web and mobile experiences and spent seven exciting years in product design, working across various sectors like finance, education, data, retail, and identity. He has also consulted for teams, turning complex challenges into engaging design solutions. Kayode is currently a designer with Pugpig, innovating how content is presented and consumed.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead Product Designer
Pugpig
- Led efforts to improve onboarding and app customization, enhancing customer retention and satisfaction.
- Designed and maintained a comprehensive design kit, boosting onboarding efficiency by 60% for new customers.
- Created features that deliver seamless user experiences, increasing the platform's adoption.
- Oversaw design quality assurance in collaboration with cross-functional teams, which reduced post-release issues by 40%.
- Engaged with customers to understand their goals and align them with product capabilities.
- Documented standards and best practices for the Pugpig platform through Helpjuice contributions.
Design Manager
Roqqu
- Revamped web and mobile platforms, introducing portfolio bags, gamification, and wallet features, resulting in a 40% increase in daily active users and transaction growth.
- Built a scalable design system, reducing design-to-development handoff time by 25% and speeding up feature launches.
- Enhanced onboarding experiences with usability testing, increasing new user retention by 30% post-global expansion.
- Launched 5+ key product features by collaborating with product and engineering teams.
- Improved payment success rates with a redesigned transaction flow, reducing errors by 15%.
UX Designer
Modus Create
- Partnered with designers and researchers to deliver digital products for high-profile clients like AARP, Consumer Reports, and Mission Cloud.
- Boosted membership conversion by 40% with a redesigned iOS app for Consumer Reports.
- Simplified Mission Cloud’s intranet tool, enhancing usability and access to critical information.
- Collaborated with UX researchers and engineering teams to conduct user research sessions with clients and customers with the goal of understanding customer behavior and designing seamless experiences.
- Conducted user research to design seamless and user-friendly experiences for diverse client needs.
Product Designer
Portex, Inc.
- Worked closely with the company’s clients to better understand their ideas and business goals for a B2B web app.
- Carried out research to better understand the users’ needs in a bid to design more useful freight products and experiences for them.
- Designed and developed concepts that provided a delightful experience for users while helping the organizations achieve their business goals.
Senior Product Designer
Tangerine Africa
- Led the design team that digitized Tangerine's range of financial services, resulting in over 35,000 new users and over £4 million processed within six months of launch.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews to gain a deep understanding of requirements for their insurance and financial applications.
- Set up a component library for Tangerine's range of products to ensure product consistency and familiar experiences and speed up development time.
- Collaborated with product engineers, designers, and product managers to finetune user experience for Tangerine.
- Led the design of the admin tool for managing users and transactions and providing support for Tangerine's range of products. This resulted in an efficient way to track user growth and a 40% improvement in support response times.
Lead Product Designer | Payments
Softcom
- Led a design team for Eyowo's (Softcom's digital payments product) for consumers and businesses across multiple channels (mobile, web, and USSD), serving over 3 million users.
- Collaborated with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to develop product roadmaps for Eyowo.
- Directed user research and redesign efforts for Eyowo's mobile consumer bank and business retail bank, which resulted in a 47% increase in bank account funding.
- Facilitated the creation of a pattern library across Eyowo's products that ensured brand consistency across several digital products and also improved front-end engineering time by 20%.
- Designed education and payment products for N-Power, the Nigerian government's social investment program that recruits, trains, assesses, and pays over 500,000 Nigerian citizens.
- Revamped the design of a ticket management system for Nigeria's Abuja Metro Rail system, resulting in an over 30% increase within the first month of implementation.
- Teamed up with UX designers and product managers to conduct focus groups and user interviews for over six products.
- Spearheaded tool transition and organized a project and file system for the Softcom design team from Adobe XD and Sketch to Figma.
UI Designer
Hotels
- Designed multiple web pages for the company as part of my responsibilities.
- Collaborated in the design of a project management software for the company.
- Led a team of six in delivering a key milestone for the project management software.
Skills
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Illustrator CC, After Effects CC, Jira, Slack, FigJam
Platforms
Figma, Mobile, iOS, Android, Webflow, Webflow CMS, Shopify
Industry Expertise
Consumer Products, Health & Wellness, Healthcare
Languages
HTML, CSS
Other
UX Design, UI Design, Mobile UI, Web UI, Responsive UI, Dashboard Design, UI Prototyping, Wireframing, User Flows, Visual Design, Prototyping, Business to Business (B2B), B2C, WebApp, Web App UI, Responsive Web Apps, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Mobile UI Design, Product Design, Mobile UX Design, Web UX, Web App Design, Mobile App Design, Web App UX, Web UI Design, Mobile App UI, Mobile Design, Web Design, Interactive UI, Mobile First, Data Visualization, eCommerce UX, eCommerce UI, eCommerce Design, eCommerce, SaaS, SaaS Design, User Interface (UI), Mobile UX, B2B, User Experience (UX), Fintech, Rapid Prototyping, Websites, Pixel Perfect, iOS App Design, Design Systems, High-fidelity Mockups, Mobile Apps, New Product Development, Visual Exploration, Responsive Design, High-fidelity Prototypes, Cross-platform UX, Presentations, Dashboards, Material Design, Web 3.0, Mockups, Information Architecture (IA), Website Redesign, UX Documentation, Web Applications, Landing Page Design, Consumer-facing Product Design, Digital Product Design, Native Mobile Apps, Web UX Design, Landing Pages, App Design, Component Libraries, Crypto, Blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Web3, Design Documentation, Discovery, Design Workshops, Discovery Workshops, User Testing, UX Strategy, Fintech Design, UX Flows, Concepting, User Journeys, iOS UX Design, Android UI Design, iOS UI Design, User Research, User Personas, Android App Design, Research, Finance, Ideation, UX Wireframes, Usability Testing, Icon Design, UI Libraries, A/B Testing, UX Research, Workflow, Onboarding, Marketplace Design, Design Collaboration, Journey Mapping, Branding, User Stories, Layout Design, UI Components, UX Audits, Microsoft Teams, Software as a Service (SaaS), Logo Design, Blockchain Design, Blockchain Platforms, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Desktop App Design, Brand Design, UX Process, Illustration, Digital Innovation, Gmail, Data, Admin Panels, Monday.com, float
Experience
- UI Design - 6 years
- UX Design - 6 years
- Figma - 6 years
- Mobile UI - 4 years
- UI Prototyping - 4 years
- Web UI - 4 years
- Responsive UI - 4 years
- Dashboard Design - 3 years
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