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Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
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
Work Experience
Product Design Lead
2021 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Miro, FigJam, High-fidelity Prototypes, Responsive Web Apps, UI Design, Web & Mobile Applications, UX Research, Usability Testing, Notion, B2B, B2C, Design Sprints, Dashboard Design, Product Design, Design Thinking, Logo Design
Senior Product Designer
2021 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Figma, FigJam, Miro, Coggle, Rapid Prototyping, Wireframing, ClickUp, B2B, B2C, Human-centered Design (HCD), Information Architecture (IA), Digital Product Design, Notion, Slack, Dashboards, User Flows, Web Dashboards, Interactive Prototypes, Design Leadership, User Personas, User Testing, User Engagement, Usability, UI Affordances, Visual Design
User Experience Lead
2020 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Figma, Lucidchart, Usability Testing, Miro, Dashboard Design, Web Design, USSD Technology, Responsive Web Apps, Responsive UI, Responsive Layout, User Flows, Information Architecture (IA), UX Writing
Product Designer and Design Educator
2018 - 2022
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.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Miro, Slack, WordPress, Adobe Premiere Pro
Lead Product Designer
2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Figma, FigJam, Webflow, Miro
Visual Designer
2020 - 2020
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.
Technologies: Figma, Miro, Slack, Jira
User Interface Designer
2017 - 2019
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.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Miro
Education
2014 - 2018
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
ESEP Le-Berger Université - Benin Republic, West Africa
Certifications
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
IBM
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
Product Masterclass: How to Build Digital Products
Product School
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide
Interaction Design Foundation
MARCH 2020 - PRESENT
Design Thinking: The Beginner’s Guide
Interaction Design Foundation
MARCH 2020 - PRESENT
Human-computer Interaction (HCI)
Interaction Design Foundation
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