Emmanuel Okononfua

Emmanuel Okononfua

Design · No-code in Lagos, Nigeria, He/Him

About

Product Designer · No-code Developer · Indie maker

My goal is to guide businesses and early-stage startups through their journey from an idea to a working product.

Projects

2025
  • Led the design, copywriting, and creative direction of the website for Brightway MFB
2025
  • Led the design for Samphes' E-commerce website, webapp and mobile app

  • The project is completed but yet to be hosted on the main domain

2023

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Work Experience

2023 — Now
Remote
  • Led the redesign of Kólé's website, implementing a modern and intuitive design with clearer content organization, resulting in a noticeably enhanced user experience (UX).

  • In addition to creating the brand identity, I designed all of the company's logo assets and product icons.

  • Created all the animation videos present on the website to help drive home / buttress the points made on the website.

2023 — 2023
Product Designer at Decisive Technologies
2021 — 2023
Product Designer at iQube Labs
Lagos, NG
  • Led the design of a telemedicine product for a startup in the UK, resulting in the onboarding of over 240+ doctors in its first month of launch.
  • Redesigned the website for MyServiceAgent, a Saas product that allows businesses to engage customers using Voice AI technology which currently serves over 130+ businesses.
  • Planned and conducted a 2-month sprint to improve the design system and documentation for the company. This dramatically improved the quality of the company’s products, services, and standards in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
2022 — 2022
Product Designer(Contract) at Column Tax
New York, USA
  • Worked on a design team of 3 to build usable products for customers and workers in the USA to file their taxes digitally.
  • Worked on the company’s design systems to ensure scalability and consistency across the product and cut down development time for engineers.
2022 — 2022
Product Designer(Contract) at Sprungg
Lagos, NG
  • Managed a solo design team that designed a product that makes the strenuous process of technical task assignments and implementation easy to navigate.
  • Implemented a design system for the company to ensure high quality and consistency across all products, leading to a decrease in development time by 40%.
  • Delivered high-fidelity dashboard designs, user flows, mock-ups, information architecture, functional prototypes and interaction specifications.
2022 — 2022
Webflow Developer at Panvala
Brooklyn, NY
  • Led the development of the new Panvala website which was mobile responsive and user-friendly using Webflow.
  • Developed features on the site that allowed users to stake Panvala tokens, and join over 65+ crypto communities, coalitions, and DAOs.
  • Implemented the newsletter feature using Webflow, which currently serves over 100+ users.
2022 — 2022
Product Designer at Uselender
Lagos, NG
  • Managed a design team of 2 to design & build a product that makes financial loans accessible & affordable for users.
  • Created a design system to ensure consistency and quality across all products, cutting down development time by almost 40%.
  • Redesigned the onboarding flow of the product and saw a decrease in average user drop-offs by almost 75%.
2020 — 2020
UI/UX Designer(Intern) at Creative Ferry Academy
Lagos, NG
  • Developed a mini design system for a mechanic booking service to ensure consistency across the website, leading to an increase in development speed by 25%.
  • Created designs for dashboards, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypes.
2019 — 2020
Graphic / UI Designer at Startup Grind Ibadan
Ibadan
  • Designed visual assets for campaigns, events, brand offerings and services.
  • Conducted research for campaigns to reach a target audience of over 200+ people.
  • Collaborated with a team of designers to strategically iterate and reimagine a mobile solution for helping busy
    professionals make contributions in their communities.

Writing

2024

As a designer, I always seek new side projects to work on over the weekend and in my free time to see how far I can take them.

Volunteering

2019 — 2020
Graphic Designer at Startup Grind Ibadan
Ibadan

Education

2017 — 2021
B.Sc Physics at University of Ibadan
Ibadan

Certifications

2022
Webflow Layouts Certification Level 1 from Webflow
2022
Complete Webflow Bootcamp: From Figma Design to Development to Freelancing from Awwwards
2022
Art Direction Secrets to Create Unique Web Experiences from Awwwards
2019
Fundamentals of Digital Marketing from Google

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