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Iโ€™ve spent the last 5+ years creating human-centred user interfaces and experiences across e-Commerce/Marketplace, Prop-tech, Edtech and SaaS products and collaborating with engineers to implement them.

I've had the pleasure of working with some talented and passionate people from 10 + countries with a shared goal of creating the best experience for the end users and achieving business goals.Some of the clients I've worked with include: Marbleflows, Anka, Kauri, Fleri health, Kaizenhd, Azone, Afiewura and Suku technologies.

When I'm not designing, you'll find me either visiting a tourist attraction in another city or at a live concert shaking my slim body๐Ÿ˜€.

I thought I will be an Electrical Engineer๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ helping generate power to the national grid. After graduation I was a Research and teaching assistant, also started a food business which I failed to scale. I then decided to learn a new skill and transitioned to Digital Product Design and Web development.

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Work experience ๐Ÿ’ผ

StellarUp ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

User Experience Designer

Oct 2023 โ€“ Present

Freelance

Digital Product Designer

Aug 2018 โ€“ Present

Marbleflows ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎย 

Digital Product Designer

Feb 2022 โ€“ Aug 2022

ANKA ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎ

User Experience Designer

Jan 2021 โ€“ Dec 2021

Afiewura ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ

UX/UI Designer

Apr 2019 โ€“ May 2020

Education ๐ŸŽ“

Interaction Design Foundation

User Experience Design

German-IBT

Human-Centred User Interface Design

Takoradi Technical University

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Skills ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿ’ป

User Experience Design, Analytical skills, Sketching / Wireframing, User-Flows, Personas , User Journeys , Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Visual Design, Interactive Prototyping.

Tools ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Pencil and paper, Whimsical, Figma, Adobe XD, Miro, Notion, Zeplin

Tech ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿ’ป

HTML , CSS/ TailwindCSS/ Bootstrap, Ruby/ Rails

Reading ๐Ÿ“š

Donโ€™t Make Me Think, Revisited- Steve Krug

UX Strategy- Jaime Levy

Courses๐ŸŽ“

Google UX Design Certificate