Hennessy

Hennessy

Fullstack designer, He/Him

About

I’m an experienced designer, artist and tech community leader with a strong belief in communication and empathy. I design products that result in customer retention, growth, and increased revenue.

Certifications

2021
Design-led Strategy from University of Sudney
2019
User Experience Design from Linkedin

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Chicago, Illinois, United States
2022 — 2023
Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

I led a team of 3 designers from different parts of the world to redesign legacy product UX, scale new features, designing team processes, tools and workflows that helps to collaborate better and ship products faster. Some of them include:

  1. Tellie design system - Rebuilding the design system from the ground up to refine the design language, reduce design debt, increase speed of design iterations and improve design quality. Some measures introduced include design tokens, font awesome icons, component blocks, versioning and change-logs, improved documentation and governance process

  2. Token gating - A feature that puts creator content like drops and pages behind a crypto and fiat paywall.

  3. Redesigning the creator onboarding flow

  4. Tellieport - A feature that enables creators import their social links from linktree.

  5. User testing - A detailed documentation of a user testing processes on notion. Documentation entails key activities for usability test, tools for measuring qualitative and quantitative data from test sessions, and processes for implementing test recommendations.

  6. Tellie Paid - Designing features that converts Tellie from a freemium to a subscription platform

2020 — 2022
Lagos, Abuja and London

Stears helps individuals and brands develop a clear perspective on the disruptive trends, transformations and technologies shaping Africa by leveraging on domain expertise & technology to build information products for global businesses and professionals.

I led a team of two designers building products and platforms for some of the company's projects that both company and departmental goals. Some of these include:

  1. Stears Subscription - a redesign of the insights platform to reflect the new brand and a fresh creative direction. Design efforts covered both product design and marketing design needs.

  2. Stears Mobile app - a subscription app that provides unrivalled access to the deep insight and analysis that Stears offers on Africa

  3. Stears Data - a proprietary data collection and merchandise platform called. (The project was decommissioned due to a lack of a product market fit).

  4. Vector - a design system based on Tailwind css for faster design iterations, reduced design backlog and improved quality of designs.

  5. Stears election centre - Arguably the most trusted data source for the 2023 General elections at all levels. Profiled by CNN, Quartz, Business Insider, and Bloomberg

  6. Led efforts to build out templates and processes that were scaled for projects with global brands like UNDP, Foreign Commonwealth & Dev office, Luminate, UK-Nigeria Tech Hub, Sterling Bank, NSIA, FSDH, and TechCabal.

  7. I introduced custom illustrated images for articles and publications and consistently delivered daily for over 2 years.

2020 — 2021
London, Dubai, Kampala and Lagos

I joined Seamfix as a design contractor to help create processes and platforms that improves the collaboration between product, design and engineering to improve product experiences and ship products faster. During the period of my contract, I executed on some flagship projects that are currently generating over 50% in revenue for the company. Some of these projects include;

  1. Design system - Improved of Base design system and document it on Confluence. Also started design ops to guide the operations of the design department.

  2. Smart MDM - A device management platform built for 9Mobile and due to it's success in increasing SIM registrations by 64%, and cutting cost overhead cost by 35%. It's success results in scaling it for other telcos like MTN, GLO, Airtel, and 9Mobile.

  3. Verified - State-of-the-art machine learning & facial recognition product to verify IDs in real-time anywhere in Africa. Verified is active in countries like Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Kenya. Featured on platforms like Techpoint, techcabal, crunchbase, producthunt and ventureburn.

2016 — 2018
Design lead at Boughview
Lagos

I led a team of 3 designers at Boughview managing the execution for both brand, marketing and product design projects. Some of my key deliverables were:

Led the design team that executed the digital overhaul of the Origene fetility brand

Designed the prototype and proposal, and was an integral part of the boughview team that won the digital overhaul of the CIBN organisation.

Projects

Volunteering

2014 — 2015

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