Miracle Agada
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Kaduna, Nigeria
Toptal member since February 8, 2022
Miracle is an equity-focused designer that leverages tech to help make lives better. With over five years of professional experience in user experience and interface design, he has a strong passion for seeing Africans solve user-centered problems around them with the resources they have. Beyond his bachelor’s degree in computer science, this passion inspired Miracle to explore design education, where he trained people on digital product design at Colab Innovation Hub in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Portfolio
SavIt.ng Mobile App
Vaccine Passport
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
Wisrod Inestments (Pvt) Ltd
- Increased conversion rates for loan application submissions and account creation by 30% through conducting A/B tests and redesigning the user journey.
- Improved the user interface of Wisrod's (Nilefine) iOS and Android mobile app using user-centric interface optimization, resulting in a 25% increase in mobile app downloads and a 15% boost in user engagement.
- Reduced drop off rate by 20% and increased user onboarding completion by 30% through the redefinition and optimization of the onboarding process.
- Conducted A/B tests that improved the click-through rate of key call-to-action buttons by 25%, increasing user interaction.
- Streamlined design processes, reducing design iterations by 25% and ensuring design consistency across digital channels through the implementation of a collaborative design system.
- Conducted regular user research and integrated feedback into design iterations, achieving a 95% satisfaction rate among active users.
- Collaborated with development, marketing, and compliance teams to align design with technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, and marketing goals, promoting cross-functional collaboration.
- Achieved a 100% regulatory compliance rate during audits by ensuring all designs met industry-specific regulatory requirements.
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer
Gova HQ
- Oversaw the entire product strategy, development, and delivery within the organization. My role was crucial in shaping the company's product vision and ensuring its alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
- Led design, development, strategy, and analytics to ensure our products align with business goals, meet customer needs, and drive growth. Oversaw quality, usability, and data-driven improvements for sustained product success.
- Handled product strategy, product development and execution, innovation and improvement, team leadership and growth, and more.
- Worked closely with the design team to ensure that our products are user-friendly, visually appealing, and meet the needs of our target market. We shipped out a mobile app, web app, and admin portal to monitor activities across all user apps.
- Ensured customer-centricity by prioritizing customer needs through research and feedback, driving innovation with creative problem-solving, maintaining agility for quick market adaptation, and attracting top talent with a culture of growth.
- Built a team with proven experience, strong skills in user research, design, agile development, and analytics, and a strong cultural fit with our values and mission. Prioritized diversity for a well-rounded, inclusive team.
Founding Senior Product Designer
Medeloop Inc.
- Worked on a patient-facing application and a researcher application, as well as pitch decks that helped facilitate the company's seed fund round of $8 million.
- Worked as a founding designer and owned the research and design of the web app and mobile app that accelerated breakthrough discoveries through novel deep AI model explainability techniques built on top of a comprehensive data linkage infrastructure.
- Contributed to the creation of a patient-facing app that encourages the public to take control of their health and contribute to life-changing medical research.
- Helped with the development of a researcher platform to shorten the clinical research process using advanced AI techniques that provide research hypotheses for even the most understudied diseases.
- Worked on the admin portal to help track users and their activities and help with access controls.
Senior Product Designer
Bloc
- Designed and delivered high-fidelity prototypes of a sandbox dashboard that enabled developers to come and test Bloc's APIs seamlessly on the go.
- Collaborated with product stakeholders to provide an iterative and human-centered design process for the digital product.
- Collaborated with team members to create a design and brand system for the company that helped keep our design language consistent across the board.
- Created an empathy and a user journey map to develop some hypotheses and validate them using A/B testing.
Product Design Lead
Prembly
- Led the design vision and designed two fintech apps with over 15 million active users across Africa. Developed sprint plans using Agile methodology from start to finish, including development.
- Managed a team of four UX designers and product designers to design new features that took the company’s overall visual design from product to market by developing atomic design systems.
- Created a design system where UX processes, principles, and research guidelines are followed to the letter.
- Conducted usability test sessions to ensure that the design solution meets the users' expectations, aligns with business decisions, and is easy to use.
- Designed an admin dashboard to manage users' and merchants' verification identities.
User Experience Lead
Clafiya
- Facilitated stakeholders' product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for the unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) app and the digital product.
- Translated concepts into wireframes and mockups that led to intuitive user experiences.
- Designed the experience of a USSD-based healthcare application that gave over a million Nigerians access to quality primary healthcare.
- Designed user-oriented interfaces and rapidly tested and iterated them on designs for mobile apps, web, and landing pages.
- Worked effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure that designs were successfully created and implemented to achieve user goals.
- Elaborated strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functions and features.
- Designed information architecture and led design thinking sessions to map out UX flows.
Product Designer and Design Educator
Colab
- Carried out data-driven research and implemented designs solutions based on the research results.
- Built a curriculum and handled introductory classes on design using web-based design tools.
- Performed as a design consultant for startups housed within the incubation hub.
- Built design curriculum for the design school and handled technical teaching sessions.
Lead Product Designer
RHICS Technology
- Led Agile-based UX and visual design teams to create outstanding mobile experiences that evolve businesses and change behaviors.
- Facilitated UX efforts on design for new app features, website redesign, data visualizations for a dashboard, and end-user interactions related to large data sets that increased ROI by 28%.
- Facilitated in-depth discussions and conversations about design’s impact on culture and society via interviews, writing, speaking, mentoring, teaching, and consulting.
- Collaborated with product managers and senior UX designers to design and test micro-interactions, flows, and mock-ups using qualitative and quantitative research methods to communicate product functionality.
- Spearheaded the switch from InVision and AdobeXD to Figma as our primary design tool, which cut costs, streamlined collaboration and handoff, and fostered a culture of feedback.
Visual Designer
Carter Consulting
- Contributed to the product strategy within product teams.
- Designed user-oriented interfaces for mobile apps and the web.
- Assisted in planning the design and execution of digital products with stakeholders and CTO.
- Managed the user experience, including but not limited to use cases, flow diagrams, competitive analysis, wireframes, visual design, and testing.
- Generated creative concepts as a contract staff within a large multidisciplinary team.
User Interface Designer
Rentch
- Managed interface design for the web and mobile application, process flow, and landing page.
- Collaborated with creatives and development teams to execute ideas, designs, and projects.
- Designed the mobile application interface and interaction.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
ESEP Le-Berger Université - Benin Republic, West Africa
Certifications
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products
Product School
User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide
Interaction Design Foundation
Design Thinking: The Beginner’s Guide
Interaction Design Foundation
Human-computer Interaction (HCI)
Interaction Design Foundation
Skills
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Miro, FigJam, Sketch, Lucidchart, Adobe After Effects, Coggle, Slack, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Jira, Zeplin, Apple HealthKit, Producteev, Hotjar
Platforms
Figma, Webflow, WordPress, Dropbox, iWatch, Music Streaming, ProductPlan, Productboard, Web
Languages
Python, HTML5, CSS3, Swift
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Health, Music, Entertainment & Leisure, Fitness, Exercise & Fitness
Other
High-fidelity Prototypes, UI Design, UX Research, B2B, B2C, Dashboard Design, Product Design, Human-centered Design (HCD), Interactive Prototypes, Visual Design, User Experience (UX), Prototyping, Web App Design, Mobile App Design, UX Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), High-fidelity Mockups, UX Wireframes, Mockups, Usability Testing, Notion, Design Sprints, Rapid Prototyping, Design Documentation, Laravel, Responsive Web Apps, Web & Mobile Applications, Design Thinking, Logo Design, Wireframing, ClickUp, Information Architecture (IA), Digital Product Design, Dashboards, User Flows, Web Dashboards, Design Leadership, User Personas, User Testing, User Engagement, Usability, UI Affordances, Web Design, USSD Technology, Responsive UI, Responsive Layout, UX Writing, Websites, Healthtech, User Research, User Stories, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, App UI, Lottie, Wearable Technology, Wearables, Mobile Apps, Smart Watches, Competition Research, UX Wireflows, Design Systems, Wireframe to Product, Low-fidelity Mockups, Interactive UI, Qualitative Analysis, Home Entertainment, Digital Music, Design, Identity Design, Identity Verification, Public Health, Healthcare Services, Data Visualization, Product Strategy, Mobile App UI, Fintech, Mobile Banking, User Interface (UI), UX Strategy, Responsive Design, Web Services, Concept Sketching, Interaction Design (IxD), Key Visuals, Product Management, Service, Smartwatch Design, WatchOS UI, Apple Watch Design, Exercise & Gyms, Diet, Music Players, Audio Streaming, Exports, Downloads, Live Entertainment, Illustration, Digital, Cover Music, Social Media Apps, Identity, Verification, Fraud Prevention, Vaccine Distribution, Apple Music, Streaming, Mobile Streaming, Data-informed Visual Design, Smart Devices, Device Testing, Web App UI, Web App UX, Web App Testing, UI Prototyping, UX Prototyping, App Design, Consumer-facing Product Design, User Journeys, Mobile UI Design, Web UI Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS, SaaS Design, Presentation Design, Digital Graphics, Leadership, Web UX, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Landing Page Design, Landing Pages, Medical Illustration, Fitness Trackers, Branding, Web Marketing, Advertising Design, MVP Design, Tables, UI Components, Healthcare IT, Medtech, Onboarding, Complex Problem Solving, Creative Problem Solving, Mobile Design, Web UI, Desktop App Design, Desktop Web Design, iOS App Design, Android UI Design, Layout, Style Guides, UX Leadership, Team Leadership, Service Design, User Journey Maps, Design Strategy, Presentations, User Behavioral Analytics (UBA), User-centered Design (UCD), Android App Design, React Native
Experience
- Visual Design - 5 years
- UI Design - 5 years
- Product Design - 5 years
- Mobile App Design - 5 years
- UX Design - 5 years
- Figma - 4 years
- Web App Design - 4 years
- Prototyping - 4 years
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