About
Hi 👋🏾, I'm Collins and I'm a Product Designer and Design Manager with four years of experience designing products and building teams for startups and service-led companies. In the last four years, my designs have serviced over 30+ enterprises, startups, and brands, and addressed problems for over 150k+ users across the world, and I have helped companies shape and scale design culture.
I love leading teams, developing good health, and finding people's tremendous potential to generate an excellent work environment. Diving head deep into design leadership and the craft of management, I have gained experience recruiting for a variety of positions, building great teams, motivating and advancing designers' careers, supporting a positive design culture and leading with empathy.
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Work Experience
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Designed & implemented the company's first viable product design ops model to support client/internal product roadmaps and ad-hoc product requests.
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Defined in collaboration with the Head of Product monthly design goals and ensure a minimum of 75% completion rate.
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Created & implemented design execution processes & standards to streamline handoff and increase employee efficiency.
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Recruited, trained, and mentored a team of 16 designers while also managing day-to-day operations.
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Led consumer and business-facing user research studies which resulted in crucial insights that informed business, product, and design decisions.
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Led and focused on user-centred design principles creating simple and intuitive user interfaces that converted to 30% increase in revenue growth
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Created interactive designs for complex web applications by way of research, page/user flow diagrams, site maps, data visualisation and interactive wireframes leading to 80% clients satisfaction rate.
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Collaborated with the CEO, Marketing and Engineering team to deliver the UI and UX experiences with a lean design process: research, design, test, and iterate.
Speaking
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I was invited to speak to a community of 150+ attendees on Managing Tasks effectively: A guide to Jira for beginners.
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Jira is a productivity tool that is used for project management. It helps teams plan, assign, track, report, and manage work.
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It takes more than being good at designing to excel in your design career. With a myriad of equally good and great designers out there gunning for your dream job, what gets you the job may not be able to help you keep that said job.
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I was invited to speak on the ‘Soft Skills and Hard Skills in Tech and all Else in Between’.
- Onboarding into a new team can be hellish and confusing and scary most times, for that reason I want to share a few things I do personally that can help you **become a valuable member** when joining a new team.
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Product Design Management (PDM) is one of the most essential elements in the booming business of designing innovative products for production. Design teams often have design managers overseeing the end-to-end process from research to design and even implementation.
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Unfortunately, most companies do not really understand the importance of PDM or how to properly implement it. There have been several misconceptions about a product design manager and what it's supposed to do in an organisation.
Tips on CV, Portfolio, LinkedIn, Networking, Positioning and general tips on how to scale your design career.
Projects
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Currently building BlokCanvas, an easy way for creatives to write, build, manage and show the world their case studies. Leverage the full power of AI and build your case study with the confidence of a thousand experts.
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Join 400+ users on the waitlist and be part of the journey when we launch in Q1 2023
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Co-creator of a platform focused on showcasing the best sites and products designed by Africans, to help inspire and build visibility. A platform aimed to help Africa Designers tell their story, their process, find jobs, etc
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1k+ page views and 400+ unique visitors since launch
Volunteering
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Mentored designers (and non-designers) for a total of 3,500+ Minutes. Helped them navigate growth, career paths, career changes, job hunting, and interpersonal issues at work by providing them with frameworks and 'on demand' 1:1 calls.
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My long-term vision is to position mentorship as a column for social growth and eradicate “the mentor trap” which is based on dependence, can be a source of resentment, gives false power to mentors, and is based on short-sighted growth views.
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Untitled Design Conference (UDC) is a creative design conference made for designers, artists, developers, managers, and builders in a one-day learning and hands-on workshop.
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From trans-formative sessions to connect with like-minded innovators in Africa and the world. UDC provides a space where you’ll be challenged to push yourself in the creative process while drawing inspiration and learning from those thriving in the industry.
Writing
Hey! Join me on my blog as I document my design journey and also write technical articles on Medium to help techies like myself. Take a sit and join me on this ride!