Ssempijja Charles
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Ssempijja Charles

Software designer in Kampala, Uganda

Up and open for opportunities. Remote mostly because i can't afford moving to your country.

2 months ago

I'm a Ugandan-based software builder and product designer. Over the past three years, I've been involved in:

  • Design, product, and engineering

  • Design systems and branding

  • Startups, big tech, and government projects

  • Leading teams in marketing and tech

I’m interested in what makes us behave in the ways that we do, how and why things work, and in finding the most effective ways of working together, to design systems that benefit people.

Projects

2024
Lyanda at Lyanda technologies limited

Currently Head of Product & Design Lead at Lyanda
Building a sustainable suite of apps for electric vehicle owners to easily find charging stations, make payments, and track battery health. Station managers get tools for orders and station management.
Designed the company logo, app icon, brand identity, and UX/UI for both apps. Grew the product team from 1 to 3 members.
(More details to come soon.)

2024

The goal of the project was to update the user interface of an existing app. This app was to launch first on Android only so I designed it entirely on Material design, a design system by Google.
Project was handed off to the dev team at UIBFS and you can check for the latest version here.

2024

From branding to software design, I’ve shaped the company's visual identity, including the logo and brand assets. While most products are still in development, you can explore the company website I designed and coded here.
Currently head of product design.

Side Projects

2024

Brand identity for a USA based music band. Fun side project.

2024
Collabo

Collabo is a platform for designer, engineers and clients who want to collaborate on projects. Handling the project managment, payments and planning all in one place giving a chnace to creators to focus on the important things.

2024
Gasfilup

These are screenshots from an app i designed at Gasfil as per project requirements. Role of app was to allow users find gas stations around them quickly. This project has however since been repealed by the client company

2024
Movie streaming

Exploring UI for movie streaming platform.

2024
Sendy

Sendy is a fintech app that solves the problem of money transfer. Making receiving money from abroad to Africa easy by integrating with existing mobile money infrastructures making it easy for even the unbanked population of Africa to be able to receive international payments straight to their mobile money accounts without any hassle.

2023

This was a random redesign i did for the biggest spirit company in my country (yeah i do some branding sometimes)
At the time i was still the head of marketing at Famerise Marketing agency

Writing

2023

Talking about the most ignored things in design that doo not get talked about enough

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Kampala

Leading product design and development for a next-gen ecosystem of apps, accelerating Africa's transition to sustainable electric mobility.

2024 — 2024
Kampala, Uganda
  • UI revamp for the existing Mypledge app.

  • Product direction

  • UI design

  • Product research

  • Prototyping new features

2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Kampala

Re designed the company's website and lead the marketing role

2022 — 2023
Kampala

Designed the company's logomarks and did other brand related content

Contact

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