Osuagwu-Chidiadi Ugochukwu
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since July 14, 2022
Ugochukwu is a designer who has delivered web, Android, and iOS designs and complete branding packages with unique identities, logos, colors, typography, architecture, guidelines, and visual elements. His expertise covers user flows, personas, IA, and qualitative and quantitative research. Eager to contribute, Ugochukwu ventured into UI/UX design after starting with logos and now enjoys the challenge of increasing client profits with strategic design approaches.
Portfolio
NEXA: Digital Branding Agency
Work Experience
UX/UI & Brand Designer
Freelance
- Initiated and contributed to several experimental projects involving web usability, tangible interactions, user flows, user interfaces, user personas, information architecture, and qualitative and quantitative research.
- Collaborated with various development teams and managed a wide variety of high-fidelity prototypes with clickable access for startups, entrepreneurs, and brands.
- Designed layouts, interactions, and transitions and researched different case studies for websites, web apps, and all mobile screen sizes and device orientations.
- Designed over 9,000 logos for domain owners, which come with the domain, so that new domain owners could use them to re-sell or start their own business without having to worry about designing a logo again.
- Designed the icon sets for the mobile app for Android and iOS as part of the design team that launched Raven Bank.
- Created identities for brands such as 0NE.com, traveln.com, Glamroo, Enlee, and Bubble. I defined their logo, colors, typography, brand architecture, guidelines, and visual elements.
- Designed brand elements. Iterated several brand studies. Worked with mockups to show visual aesthetics to brands and clients.
- Animated several logo types and intros for brands using a simplistic approach to design in Adobe After Effects.
Graphics Designer | Freelance
Squadhelp
- Designed over 9,000 logos on the platform for various clients, startups, and domain owners willing to sell and/or start a company.
- Delivered static brand elements such as stationary, mockups, posters, social media kits, advertisements, marketing, and elements following various clients' and startups' needs and requirements.
- Developed names for startups and clients that would be suitable for domains. This has helped launch over 15 startups, such as Oxygean, AudioForex, Qreative Pointe, Medistrative, Kitchen Loft, Trinergyy, and others.
- Designed the brand identity for Glamroo and Enlee, which is a baby care brand.
UI/Web Designer
Bell + Ivy
- Developed an information architecture system for the website. This, in turn, helped the development team with a structured outline of information for the brand and website.
- Reviewed the client's brand guidelines, then created a style guide to guide the design of the website and future needs.
- Designed the user interface with effective interactive layouts of the website for the clients and other necessary UI pages.
- Collaborated with the design lead to structure out client's needs, preferences and design feel.
- Collaborated with others on Figma with different iterations and examples of the proposed website with hands-off to developers.
Style and UI Designer
Caster LLC
- Reviewed over 150 UI screens that were done for the mobile application.
- Designed the style guide on Figma needed for the developers to efficiently code and program the mobile application and then implemented it into Zeplin for the ease of developers and the full team.
- Adjusted the UI designs by redesigning some screens to show examples of correct frame size, colors, and typography. Implemented this prototype into InVision for clickable access and view.
- Outlined to the co-founder some user experience errors that needed adjustments and immediate fix before the MVP date. This helped by reducing future design and development costs and simplifying things for potential users.
- Created wireframes of said solutions and note user experience objectives per screen. Implemented this from Figma into Zeplin and InVision.
Lead Brand Designer
Hepier
- Designed an efficient universal logo needed for the startup brand. This improved the look and feel of the brand from static which was old, to motion and progressive, which is new.
- Built the brand identity guideline, including colors, typography, logo, social media, brand architecture and usage. Created assets used during and after the launch.
- Contributed to the product design team by providing suggestions, ideas, user feedbacks, A/B testing, and crated low-fidelity wireframes for them.
- Established the company as a branded house by foreseeing the needs of future sub-brands under Hepier. This helped keep the brand in it's set goals and structure.
- Led a design team of four and collaborated directly with the CEO, development lead, and engineers.
- Collaborated with the CEO to manage employee stakes and contribution to the team. Set up a financial system structure for the brand.
Brand Designer | Contract
Arialaba
- Designed an efficient logo icon mark following the brand owner's requirements. This was designed simple enough to incorporate it into the design system, brand guidelines, and assets.
- Added to the brand identity guide, which included the logo, colors, and typography.
- Collaborated and aided the web design team by creating low-fidelity wireframes to showcase the look and feel of the website.
- Improved the information architecture of the brand, increasing positive feedback and views from users.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Port Harcourt - Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
Certifications
Animation for Typographic Logo Designs
Domestika
Graphic Design Industry Training
Brainnest
Web Design: Building Striking Compositions
Domestika
User Interface Design
Domestika
App Design: Prototyping
Domestika
User Experience Design
Domestika
Skills
Tools
Figma, Wireframe.cc, Adobe Illustrator, Miro, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Photoshop, UI Grid, Milanote, InVision, Adobe After Effects, Zeplin, Motion 5
Platforms
Android, iOS, Webflow, Zeppelin
Languages
CSS, HTML
Other
Computer Skills, Critical Thinking, Rapid Prototyping, UI Design, Web UI Design, UX Design, UI Research, User Personas, Mobile UI, UI Prototyping, Logo Design, Brand Design, Logotype, Desktop Web Design, High-fidelity Prototypes, Product Design, Card UI, App UX, App UI, User Interface (UI), Interface Testing, IDEAS, Web App Design, Mobile UI Design, Graphic Design, Visual Design, iOS UI Design, Mobile App Design, Mobile Design, Branding, UI Branding, Presentation Design, Brand Guidelines, Creative Design, Naming, Company Naming, User Interviews, Usability Testing, Mobile First, Fintech, Web App UI, High-fidelity Mockups, Interactive Prototypes, Best Practices in Design, UI Components, Information Architecture (IA), Mobile Apps, Design, Graphics, Typography, Typefaces, Onboarding, App Design, Landing Pages, Rebranding, User Onboarding, Mobile Wallet, Mobile Payments, Money Transfers, Digital Payments, Clean Design, Mathematics, Analysis, Wireframing, Research, User Empathy, Empathy Mapping, Web UI, UX Wireframes, Prototyping, Brand Identity, Landing Page Design, Design Leadership, Video Calling, Food Ordering, Foodtech, Delivery, Laundry Services, Home Services, Agriculture, Clothing, Sportswear, Beauty Products, Low-fidelity Prototypes, Web UX, User Flows, Interface Design, Ideation, Web Design, User Experience (UX), Mobile UX, iOS UX Design, Android UI Design, Design Systems, Brand Books, Illustration, Style Guides, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Responsive Web Design (RWD), User Workflows, A/B Testing, Web App UX, Invoicing, SaaS, Dashboards, Copywriting, SaaS Design, Accessibility, UX Documentation, Dashboard Design, UX Workshops, Material UI, B2B, Creative Direction, Motion & Animation Design, eCommerce UI, User Research, Competitive Analysis, Market Research, Market Research & Analysis, User Roles, eCommerce, User Management, Social Media Design, Strategy, Mobile UX Design, UX Research, Composition, Notion, Web UX Design, B2C, Promotional Leaflets & Flyers, Mockups, Websites, Meditation, Motion Design, Animation, Logo Intros, Data Visualization, Animated Logos, 2D Animation, Infographics, Digital Brand Identity
Experience
- Logo Design - 5 years
- Adobe Illustrator - 5 years
- Brand Design - 4 years
- UI Design - 4 years
- Figma - 4 years
- UI Prototyping - 4 years
- UX Design - 3 years
- Product Design - 3 years
Tools
- Figma
- Adobe Illustrator
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