About
Willard
Product designer in Nairobi. I design apps and websites, and build most of them.
In Brief
I'm a senior product designer at Triply, which runs payments and booking tools for travel businesses across Africa. Before that I spent three years as the first designer at Goodspeed Studio, working on every client project.
I started as a Flutter engineer at Savannah Informatics and moved into design there. I still build. Most of the projects on this site I designed and coded myself.
I've worked on health, fintech, marketplace and consumer apps, mostly in African markets. The work I like best is where the usual patterns stop fitting: a shared phone, a slow connection, a driver in Nairobi traffic.
Career
Mar 2026 – Present
Triply
Senior Product Designer
Product design across Triply’s business and consumer products. I’m refreshing the design system and bringing AI tools into how the team works.
Jan 2025 – Present
SilkTech Limited
Product Designer (Part-Time)
Client products across different industries, designed with the product owner. I stay close to the engineers through handoff so what ships matches the design.
Mar 2023 – Feb 2026
Goodspeed Studio
Product Designer → Freelancer
First designer at the agency. I designed for every client, ran discovery and onboarding, and managed the freelance designers. Later I moved to freelance.
Jan 2021 – Mar 2023
Savannah Informatics
Product Designer
First designer at the company. I designed a mobile app that grew past 100,000 users, and the design team grew from one person to three.
Jul 2018 – Jan 2021
Savannah Informatics
Software Engineer
Part of the founding engineering team. I built the company’s first mobile app in Flutter, then moved into design.
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