Steve Ibukun

Steve Ibukun

Product Design

About

designing software and websites for early-stage companies that want to ship faster.

Side Projects

Work Experience

2019 — Now
Designer at Freelance
  • Helping multiple early-stage companies create a consistent system across user experience and visual design for products and marketing website design.

  • Working with several small agencies and studios as a freelancer and independent contractor.

  • Successfully worked on over 13 web and mobile products across DeFi, NFT utilities, FinTech and B2B/B2C SaaS.

2022 — 2023
Product Designer at Porpose
Remote
  • Close collaboration with different stakeholders on the product strategy and information architecture.

  • Rapid iterations of different design concepts and prototypes to solve the problem.

  • Delivered high-fidelity design and provided support to engineers.

  • Improved documentation for developers to understand the new UI components and use cases.

  • Using tools like Figma and Maze, I conducted remote usability tests with 6 end users to identify the best interaction flows, leading to a 44% increase in usability.

2021 — 2022
Product Designer at Astroverse
Remote
  • As the first design hire, I led the design vision for the company and contributed to product strategy and decision-making.

  • Produced user journey maps, user flows, UI designs, and high-fidelity clickable prototypes to define solutions that have a high impact on the user experience.

  • Laid the groundwork for the ecosystem design system, developing a comprehensive style guide and component library to streamline design, and development processes, and increase user interface development speed close to 40%.

  • Collaborated with developers to review and refine UI details during development.

  • Assisted over 10 Generative Art NFT projects launch on the first version of AstroGen to gather feedback.

2020 — 2021
UI/UX Designer at 0xEngine Labs
  • Led diverse, cross-functional projects, and delivered user research, user flows, wireframes, design specs, and prototypes for enterprise and consumer products in blockchain/web3.

  • Partnered with User Researchers, UX Strategists, and Product Managers to dive into clients’ user workflows and use cases to better understand how we can solve their problems.

  • Transformed client concepts into practical user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that facilitated seamless user interactions, aligning with their objectives and needs.

  • Lead design iterations based on business requirements, market feedback, technology constraints, and user testing analysis.

  • Collaborated with senior designers and engineers to build a component library for a scalable and flexible system.

  • Collaborated with the engineering team and product manager, to release over 2 team products to navigate the ambiguity and complex systems of crypto/blockchain-based web applications.