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Designer
Location
Waterloo, Canada
Toptal Member Since
November 6, 2016
Kesiena is a creative user experience strategist and designer with practical experience leading, and providing value, across all phases of the design process and product life cycle, including UX research, strategy, interaction and UI design, prototyping and usability testing. With the benefit of a diverse background, Kesiena brings to the table a data-informed, user-centered approach to problem solving and innovation in the digital space.
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
2021 - 2021
NerdWallet
- Accountable for all design decisions on the product expansion pod, collaborating with product management, content strategy, and the engineering team members to refine and launch new product experiences for our users.
- Led the redesign of an existing product in the auto-insurance vertical to help our users discover, compare, and shop for the right vehicle insurance that meets their needs.
- Identified gaps in NerdWallet's design system and actively contributed components to improve the design system.
Technologies: Figma
Product Designer | Senior Product Designer
2019 - 2021
Geotab
- Owned the end-to-end design, including user research and UX strategy, interaction, and experience design for the Geotab electric vehicle product suite.
- Led the design of a new product, the Electric Vehicle Suitability Assessment Tool (EVSA), from concept through to launch, which helped the company acquire new customers in Europe.
- Established design processes and facilitated collaboration between design, product, and engineering teams.
- Evangelized and promoted design culture within the organization.
- Identified UX research opportunities and led initiatives to improve customer engagement and retention, achieving an 8% increase in device installations (a core success metric).
Technologies: InVision, Figma, Sketch
UX Designer
2018 - 2019
ZeitSpace, Inc.
- Consulted on and provided design solutions to business problems faced by clients and users of their products.
- Collaborated with external design and development teams on client companies to ensure that proposed design solutions are feasible while considering the client’s budget and resources.
- Managed relationships and communicated with multiple stakeholders to facilitate a shared understanding of project goals and ensure that design is aligned with said goals.
- Employed several UX methods and created artifacts, including user flows, information architecture, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to properly articulate design decisions.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch
Interaction Designer
2017 - 2018
BigRoad, Inc.
- Owned the end-to-end design, including user research, interaction, and experience design for BigRoad mobile and web applications.
- Collaborated with a cross-functional team of product managers and engineers to design and ship new product features and functionality.
- Collaborated with product and marketing departments to set up a user feedback panel to get clearer insights into the wants, needs, and pain of paying customers.
- Employed several UX methods and created artifacts, including user flows, information architecture, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to properly articulate design decisions.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch
UX Researcher
2016 - 2017
Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Centre
- Led user research and iterative experience design for learning modules component of virtual incubation platform under development.
- Optimized research processes by utilizing structured, goal-driven research methods to deliver useful results on time and on budget.
- Facilitated and encouraged a team-wide appreciation of user goals and needs by visualizing research insights.
- Established design direction and defined product requirements to maximize opportunities and mitigate threats identified through user and domain research.
Technologies: Pencil & Paper, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop
UX/UI Designer
2016 - 2016
ConsenSys
- Brainstormed and designed the minimum viable product for ConsenSys.ca—an online platform that connects and facilitates dialogue between citizens and their elected representatives in government.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
UX Strategist and Designer
2016 - 2016
Veriday
- Led user research and UX strategy in an iterative design process to plan and design niche marketplace for financial advisers and content writers.
- Acted on user and business research recommendations to influence product vision and strategy.
- Examined and refined design outputs and choices through usability testing with target users.
Technologies: UXPin, Balsamiq, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
UX and Data Visualization Designer
2016 - 2016
Thomson Reuters Innovation Lab
- Provided data analysis and visualization services in a cross disciplinary, collaborative agile team, for a legal citation application under development.
- Discovered product opportunities and justified key requirements through research and analysis of competing alternatives.
- Synthesized and mapped-out useful information flows from complex network data.
- Applied user-centered design principles in brainstorming and designing simple, effective data visualizations that satisfy user and business goals.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, InVision, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Education
2015 - 2016
Master's Degree in Digital Experience Innovation
University of Waterloo - Waterloo, ON, Canada
2010 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Afe Babalola University - Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti Stat, Nigeria
Experience
Collaboration That Works
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