Profile
Product designer with six years in fintech, digital health, marketplaces and consumer apps, mostly for African markets. I work from early research through to shipped features and design systems, as the only designer or as part of a larger team.
Experience
Product design across Triply’s business and consumer products. Refreshing the design system and components, bringing AI tools into the design workflow, and changing how the design team works.
Designing client products across different industries with the product owner. Handing designs over to development and checking that what ships matches what the client asked for.
Joined as the first designer at the agency. Designed every client product and the internal tools, managed freelance designers, and led client onboarding and discovery. Later moved to freelance.
Worked with the client to define the product concept, then designed both the customer app and the admin dashboard.
First designer at the company. Designed a mobile app that grew past 100,000 users. Grew the design team from one person to three.
Part of the founding team that built the company's first mobile app using Flutter. Worked on the core product and incorporated client feedback into ongoing development.
Skills
Design
UX & UI Design
Mobile UX Design
Interaction Design
Visual Design
Design Systems
Prototyping
Usability & A/B Testing
Information Architecture
User Flows
Data-Driven Design
Engineering
HTML & CSS
Flutter
Frontend Development
Design Handoff
Component Libraries
Tools
Figma
Framer
Adobe XD
Adobe Illustrator
Sketch
Miro
Notion
Cursor
Education
Software Development Certification
Information Technology Certification
Notable
Savannah Informatics, designed a mobile app with 100k+ users
Savannah Informatics, grew design team from 1 to 3 people
Moringa School, 900 in-class hours, ideation & agile training from ThoughtWorks
Get in touch
willardshikami@outlook.com