Kehinde Ayanleye
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Washington, DC, United States
Toptal member since January 30, 2020
Kehinde has eight years of design experience and is currently building a no-code cognitive platform that helps some of the top 50 global pharma companies leverage AI. In addition to design, leadership, and front-end development experience, Kehinde co-founded Stutern to design digital experiences for clients and connect African millennials with technology skills. As an entrepreneur driving social impact, Kehinde is a 2018 Obama Foundation Leader: Africa and Stripe Global Entrepreneurship Fellow.
Portfolio
Web App | Search Engine and Booking System
Tellear Mobile and Web App | Audio Social Media
No-code AI Enterprise Platform | Mobile and Web App
Mobile App | Knowledge Management System
Work Experience
UX/UI Designer
Sapient AI Inc
- Served as the founding designer; collaborated with early adopters to validate hypotheses, map optimal engineering practices, and inform the product workflow.
- Created working prototypes that attracted over $3 million in funds and design assets, securing early enterprise adopters as design partners.
- Organized feedback sessions, product walkthroughs, and design onboarding for new hires, fostering efficient collaboration within the team.
Web App Designer
Cortina, INC.
- Redesigned an eCommerce MVP into scalable SaaS, increasing active clients from 6 to 100+ and integrated payment gateways, reducing operational costs.
- Optimized contract negotiation, seamlessly introducing custom terms for retailers, enhancing conversion, and expediting billing for operational efficiency.
- Improved onboarding flow, augmenting client acquisition and amplifying marketplace sales by 20%.
Product Designer
Quality Training Systems
- Spearheaded the redesign of a 12-year-old Microsoft Access database platform into a web application, ensuring compliance in the energy, railway, and oil and gas industries.
- Automated multiple layers of the product based on thorough analysis of usage data, enhancing overall operational efficiency.
- Secured buy-in from key stakeholders and designed bespoke features for industry giants like Pacific Gas & Energy, Eversource Energy, Fortis BC, Puget Sound Energy, BC Hydro, and Sacramento Municipal District, impacting 100,000+ employees.
Product Designer
MainStreet
- Designed a client-facing platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
- Introduced a step-by-step process and informative indicators that tell users at what stage their claims are in every moment.
- Collaborated with a product manager and engineer to redesign the visual user experience.
Product Designer | Product Manager
Sorcero
- Co-led product sprints with the CTO (an MIT Media Lab veteran), using customer feedback on AI systems to ensure that iterative improvements in product releases addressed clients' needs.
- Supported the engineering team with front-end development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python.
- Improved communication and collaboration, connecting a team of 14 across six countries, using Google Suite, Zoom, and Slack.
- Accelerated the claims process by conducting research and designing an insurtech AI solution that generates key pieces of data from claimants via multiple communication channels and relays that data to the right team for final validation.
- Applied GitHub and Monday.com to manage projects and Figma to design user interfaces.
Co-founder | UI/UX Designer | Front-end Developer
Stutern
- Led the front-end development team and UI/UX product design efforts to build a job placement platform used by 2,500+ employers and 50,000+ youths in Africa.
- Created and promoted video, graphic, and web-banner marketing content that helped recruit recent graduates from 50+ universities across Nigeria and contributed to 2,000+ job placements.
- Established the use of Trello for project management, HubSpot for content distribution, Hootsuite to integrate social media messaging, Mailchimp for email campaigns, and Zoho for individualized email addresses.
- Led the user research and product design for a student information system that helps manage student and staff activities and their interactions on an e-learning platform across major federal universities in Nigeria.
- Led a team of designers to build a marketplace that facilitates the finding and booking of freelance mobile beauty professionals while assisting business owners in leveling up, taking control, and growing their businesses.
- Managed a team of developers and designers across three continents to build a 50+ page product catalog and advertisements featuring clients' products. The team used WordPress and Webflow.
- Designed the UI/UX and front end of a cryptocurrency trading platform to promote financial inclusion in Africa.
Education
Executive Education in Mastering Design Thinking
MIT Sloan School of Management - Boston, MA, USA
Coding Bootcamp in Front-end Web Development
General Assembly - London, United Kingdom
Master of Science Degree in Computer Animation
University of Kent - Canterbury, England, UK
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communication
Bowen University - Osun State, Iwo, Nigeria
Certifications
Autodesk Maya Certified Professional
Autodesk
Skills
Tools
InVision Studio, Figma, Cinema 4D, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Autodesk Maya, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Miro, Confluence, FigJam
Platforms
Webflow, iOS, Android, WordPress, Mobile
Languages
HTML5, CSS3, HTML, CSS, Python, JavaScript, Python 3
Industry Expertise
Education, Government, Healthcare
Other
UI Design, UX Design, Web Design, User Research, User Interviews, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Slack App, Interaction Design (IxD), Digital Design, Sketching, Content Mapping, Wireframing, Mentorship & Coaching, Information Architecture (IA), Strategy, Journey Mapping, User Stories, Prototyping, User Testing, Human-centered Design (HCD), Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Landing Page Design, Product Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Design Leadership, Executive Presentations, Presentation Design, Stakeholder Engagement, UX Leadership, Leadership, Design Strategy, UX Strategy, Stakeholder Management, Mobile App Design, CX Strategy, Animation, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Dashboards, E-learning, User Flows, Platforms, Validated User Research, Rapid Sketching, Design Sprints, Web App Design, Brand Identity, Digital Brand Identity, SaaS, Design Systems, A/B Testing, Bitcoin, Fintech, Finance, UX Research, Landing Pages, User Surveys, Story Mapping, Design Thinking, Web Applications, Social Media, Audio Interaction Design, Marketplaces, Workflow, Entity Extraction, Life Science, Search, Knowledge Management, Digital Transformation, Cognitive Science, Automation, Social, Medicine, Bots, Workshops, Iterative Design, Dashboard Design, Portals, Taxation, Ruby on Rails 5, Knowledge Sharing, People Management, Training, Booking Systems, Appointment Booking, Research, Design Direction, Communication, Enterprise Design, Plugins, Enterprise SaaS, Visual Design, SaaS Design, Web App UX, Web App UI, CRM Design, Marketplace Design, eCommerce, Marketing Technology (MarTech), B2B, Accessibility
Experience
- Digital Design - 7 years
- User Research - 6 years
- User Experience (UX) - 6 years
- User Interface (UI) - 5 years
- iOS - 5 years
- Android - 5 years
- Information Architecture (IA) - 5 years
- Webflow - 2 years
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