Miracle Agada
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
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
Work Experience
Product Design Lead
Identitypass
- 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 of the project, 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.
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.
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
Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Miro, FigJam, Sketch, Lucidchart, Adobe After Effects, Coggle, Slack, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Jira, Zeplin
Platforms
Webflow, WordPress, Dropbox, iWatch, Music Streaming
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Health, Music, Entertainment & Leisure, Fitness, Exercise & Fitness
Languages
Python, HTML5, CSS3
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, Usability Testing, Notion, Design Sprints, Rapid Prototyping, 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
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