Olawale Badara
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Wale is a digital product designer with a background in computer science. In the last seven years, he has worked in global teams like Carta, Trustpilot, and trivago to design digital experiences for solutions on the web. In his current workflow, Wale leverages research, competitive analysis, wireframing, prototyping, and quantitative insights to make well-informed design decisions, explore design solutions skillfully, and communicate design rationale.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
Carta
- Addressed the intricate realm of company share registers, designing a comprehensive set of company secretarial registers, spearheading research, ideation, and solution design to empower businesses and be compliant while issuing shares.
- Developed the valuations approval workflow to empower customers to request and approve valuations and get them ready to grant equity.
- Created visual elements to help internal users easily identify non-user-facing features and improve their experience on Capdesk.
- Designed improvements to enable customers to tag the role of administrators added to the platform.
Senior Product Designer
Quizboot
- Revamped the quizboot.com landing page to more effectively convey the platform's value proposition.
- Redesigned the platform to offer improved support for user-generated content, specifically enhancing the quiz creation workflow, resulting in a doubling of active users to over 100%.
- Explored continuous improvements and new features to meet users' needs and business goals.
UX/UI Designer
Workfully SL
- Handled solution design of the Workfully talent pipeline system to facilitate the sourcing and management workflow for the recruitment process.
- Designed the job creation process to empower company admins to efficiently post jobs, connect with recruiters, and discover talent within the platform.
- Designed recruiter and company admin interfaces to enhance engagement and streamline the recruitment process.
Product Designer
Trustpilot
- Worked on building eCommerce and payment integrations to enable businesses to collect reviews automatically. This increased the number of active companies on the platform to over 80,000.
- Designed social integrations to Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, providing business users on Trustpilot with new ways to showcase their Trustpilot reviews, increase online trust, and engage customers. Over 75% of users found the feature useful.
- Built an informational page to empower businesses to keep track of their Trustpilot rating and improve their overall online trust. This became one of the most visited pages in the Trustpilot business app.
- Redesigned the Trustpilot app on Shopify to address negative reviews, increase the number of active businesses using the app, and reduce the number of uninstalls.
User Experience Designer
Trivago
- Analyzed Trivago magazine, identified usability issues, and proposed ideas to ensure it delivers an excellent user experience.
- Supported the marketing solutions team in coding newsletter templates for messaging campaigns.
- Proposed design changes for the Trivago magazine widget on Trivago's core hotel search page to provide users with a richer destination discovery experience.
Product Designer
DataGuard
- Discovered usability problems with the privacy audit dashboard and redesigned the dashboard to improve the task completion rate.
- Contributed to the design system to ensure a consistent design language and reduce time-to-ship features.
- Designed new features and improvements to the internal privacy audit workflow to support data protection officers in the privacy audit process.
User Experience Designer
Co-Creation Hub
- Designed a digital tool at cchubnigeria.com/nimcure to promote adherence to treatment in tuberculosis patients. The outcome of the clinical trial using this tool was an increase in the adherence rate to over 90%.
- Designed an educational web app at stemcafe.io to help parents book fun learning activities for their kids.
- Designed a companion HIV self-testing app to help people self-test for HIV/AIDS and an admin dashboard to manage the entire system.
- Supported over ten startups funded by the company with UX expertise to help improve their digital solutions and product offering.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) - Abeokuta, Nigeria
Skills
Tools
Figma, Hotjar, Sketch, InVision, ProtoPie, Photoshop CC, Miro, Git, Asana, Balsamiq Mockups, FullStory
Platforms
Software Design Patterns, Web, Mobile
Industry Expertise
Hospitality
Languages
HTML, CSS
Other
Information Architecture (IA), Wireframing, Prototyping, Digital Product Design, UI Design, eCommerce UX, Product Design, Responsive Web Apps, UX Design, User Experience (UX), B2B, User Interface (UI), Web UI Design, Web App Design, Marketplace Design, MVP Design, Checkout, Complex Web Systems, User Testing, Style Guides, Dashboard Design, Admin Panels, Data Visualization, Model View Controller (MVC), Social Media, Product Discovery, User Research, Usability Testing, Design Systems, Design, Web UX, Landing Page Design, Dashboards, Web Development, Startups, eCommerce, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web App UI, MVC Design, Search Engines, Stock Photos, Tailwind CSS, PDF, HTML Templates, Images, Tools, Web of Trust, Customer Insights, Analytics, Charts, Search, Mobile UX, Social, Facebook API, Mockups, Social Sharing, Apps, Journal Design, Amplitude, Business to Business (B2B), Reviews, User Interviews, Responsive UI, User Flows, Online Payments, Visual Design, Auditing, IT Audits, Data, Web Components, Downloads, Optimization, Reflection, Typeform.io, Algorithms, Web UI, Agile UX, Intercom, Mobile Design
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