Laolu Ganiy

Laolu Ganiy

Product Designer in England

About

collaborating and leading teams on design of products & experiences people love from ideation phases through to launch-ready versions.

Projects

2024

Working with a focus group and product team to deliver a UI refresh and new feature rollouts across a B2C/D2C platform optimizing for efficiency across event planning tasks.

2024

Leading a team of two designers working cross-product on Mantle, an internal enterprise tool for a US-based wellness provider. Responsibilities include Design system/User interface refresh, feature optimisation, & design strategy planning and management.

2023

Simplifying appointments for UK Therapists

2022

KemNet is a platform that allows you access medications that are shorted or medications that are commercially unavailable.

2022
Mozy

The easiest way to finance a car and save time. Get auto finance rates before, during, and after your purchase.

2022

Casual furniture in —Augmented Reality

2021

Google-inspired Family-Brand

2021

Efficient booking process —for electric cars

2020

Youth-led Community Transformation

Awards

2023

1st Place, Good Agency Team Member
3rd Place, Modulous (Proptech) Team (2022)

2023
Sprintfolio Design Competition
2019
Shortlist, ColabNowNow from British Council

Digital Design/Art Residency

2019
Finalist, DesignWeekLagos Competition from DWL Lagos

Futuristic Architecture Reimagination

2016
Cohort, British Council/AAND from British Council/AAND

African Alliance for New Design

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Senior Product Designer at Jhool
London, UK

Leading a team of two designers working cross-product on Mantle, an internal enterprise tool for a US-based wellness provider. Responsibilities include Design system/User interface refresh, feature optimisation, & design strategy planning and management.

2023 — 2023

→ For MeetMyTherapist, a B2B SaaS platform, I led an end-to-end design processes; developed omni-channel API interfaces, web pages, and brand assets using Figma, Webflow, and other no-code tools to accelerate user acquisition and retention.

→ For Mozy, an Automotive financing startup, I provided interaction design services with the aim of increasing customer satisfaction scores before a critical raise process.

→ With Bynda, a B2B2C team culture building platform, I helped the product team deliver UI improvements & No-code development services (Webflow) towards their product launch and testing phases.

2019 — 2022
Product/Digital Designer at Kemet Group/KemNet
Canada

→ Transitioned into digital, user interface and service design which helped secure over $25million dollars in grants & regulatory permits from public and private bodies through detailed pitch decks and prototypes.
→ Worked with in-house and external engineering, branding and marketing teams in multiple sprints to map and roll out cross-platform roll-outs for all three startups within the Group’s portfolio.
→ Designed and helped build internal order placement & tracking tool (KemNet) to receive and place compounding orders which helped grow the user base from 1-1k+ institutional users & secure a place in the YC winter batch of 2022.

2018 — 2020
Design Lead at Studio am.DA

→ Led a floating team in providing architecture, urban planning, public art & industrial design services.
→ Designed and helped secure multilateral regulatory approvals on modular factory prototypes being built off-site to be transported and implemented across 13 countries in Africa.
→ Provided 3D-Modelling, BIM, visualisation and presentation design to architecture offices as a service.
→ Participated in multiple creative design explorations through R&D studies, residencies, and competitions.

Volunteering

2023 — 2023

→ I volunteer in cycles as Design Manager; I previously led a design team implementing UX strategies and leading to create a horse-stress tracking enterprise management software. Planned for scalability across similar veteran and healthcare causes.

→ I currently lead a team of 6, helping DFG design and build a responsive webflow website showcasing their to supplement their fundraising efforts.

Education

2021 — 2023
M.sc, Project Management at Oxford Brookes University
2011 — 2018
B.Tech, Architecture at Federal University of Technology, Minna

Certifications

2023
McKinsey Forward Graduate from McKinsey & Company
2020
Google UX Design Professional from Coursera
2019
UX Design Diploma from Brainstation

Contact

Behance
Issuu Portfolio