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Olajide Akinpelu

Senior Product Designer

Works remotely from Abuja

  • 9.25
  • 6.9333
  • Suggested rate £443 / day
  • Experience 7+ years
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Location and workplace preferences

Location
Abuja, Nigeria
Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Preferences

Project length
  • ≤ 1 week
  • ≤ 1 month
  • Between 1-3 months
  • Between 3-6 months
  • ≥ 6 months
Business sector
  • Automobile
  • Banking & Insurance
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Aviation & Aerospace
  • E-commerce
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Languages

  • English

    Fluent

  • Yoruba

    Fluent

Categories

Skills (42)

Olajide in a few words

Olajide is a multidisciplinary, award-winning design professional with 10+ years of experience in product design, UI/UX, and website design. He has worked in Agile environments across multiple industries, including the healthcare, legal, education, and finance sectors. Olajide developed a pest control and food security solution that won a Frontier Innovation award in 2018, award-winning websites for GTBank and Wema Bank, and a health planning decision-support platform.

Portfolio

Experience

Sync biotracking

Health & Wellness

Senior Product Designer (via Toptal)  - As a freelancer

Athens, Attiki, Greece

May 2021 - Today (1 year and 9 months)

At Toptal, I collaborate remotely with enterprise companies and products all around the globe to help them with Design Strategy, Concept Development, and Product Design for complex digital products in HealthTech, FinTech, Edtech, etc.
Product design UX Writing User Experience Design User Interface Design User Research User Testing Prototype

eHealth Africa

Public sector

Lead UI/UX Designer

Abuja, Nigeria

July 2020 - May 2021 (10 months)

Designed a suite of offline-capable mobile and web applications, LoMIS Suite (LoMIS Stock and Deliver), which addresses challenges with the supply and distribution of vaccines and health commodities to last-mile health facilities. Primary contact between internal and external stakeholders and the design team.
Tech Lead User Experience Design User Interface Design User Testing User Research Business plan Scrum Front-End development

eHealth Systems Africa

Public sector

Senior UI/UX Designer

Abuja

September 2016 - May 2021 (4 years and 8 months)

Proposed and designed eHA-cells, a design system that improves collaboration between designers and developers, and reduces development time. Designed the CornBot audiovisual mobile app/interactive assistant designed to help farmers manage fall armyworm pests and improve food production. The application interacts with farmers in their local language and won a Frontier Innovations award.
User Experience Design User Research User Interface Design Google Analytics Front-End development

RightClick Limited

Digital & IT

UI/UX Designer

Ikeja

April 2014 - May 2016 (2 years and 1 month)

Designed award-winning websites for GTBank Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Ghana. Designed mobile and web applications for over 4 Nigerian banks. Designed and illustrated custom icons for products.
User Experience Design User Interface Design User Testing User Research Webdesign Responsive design

BsCOM TDigits Limited

Digital & IT

UI Designer/Frontend Designer

Lagos, Nigeria

October 2011 - March 2014 (2 years and 5 months)

Designed an online school portal for the Nigerian Law School with features to manage admissions, examinations, and student's academic records. Designed the first eVehicle registration portal in Nigeria. Designed portals for e-government solutions in Nigeria such as eProcurement, eLGA, Office manager solution amongst others.
User Experience Design User Interface Design Front-End development Google Analytics

ICStudios Limited

Website/Multimedia Designer  - As a freelancer

Lagos, Nigeria

July 2009 - September 2011 (2 years and 2 months)

Designed the organization’s website and multimedia layout for comics and animations. Collaborated with animators and artists on digital marketing and SEO to optimize the organization’s online presence. Designed comic book shopping websites for assigned clients.

Felixson-Yusuf Muyiwa - Flexisaf Edusoft limited

15/06/2021

He is a strong member of the team with numerous works on his portfolio, these include and not limited to product websites, Vaccine Stock Inventory Application (Web Admin App, Mobile App, Angular, React), Health Facility Registry (Angular), Fall Army Warm Detection Project (React Native) and lots more. He's a very diligent individual with a very keen eye for perfection. His user empathy and research ability is top-notch and will be a great asset for any team. His knowledge of programming also helps him empathize with developers by providing them with code level UI components to help speed up development time.

Victor Churchill Akpan - eHealth Africa

14/06/2021

Olajide is a passionate user experience designer with an excellent collaborative spirit, having worked with him on several projects, his years of design experience shows across his works with an keen eye for salient details.

Education

  • Other

    The Interaction Design Foundation

    2017

    Usability and profitability are two sides of the same coin: Simple usability improvements can create enormous increases in the profitability of e-commerce websites. Likewise, usability improvements can greatly improve productivity and job satisfaction in a work environment

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

    Lagos State University

    In-progress

Certifications 

  • Design Sprint Expert
    Udacity
    2017