FOLASEWA OGUNSOLA

Product Designer

Lagos, NG.

About

Highly accomplished Product Designer with 4 years of end-to-end design expertise across Fintech, Web3, E-commerce, and EdTech, adept at shipping user-centric digital payment experiences. Proven ability to build design systems, reduce engineering integration time by 15%, cut onboarding drop-off by 10%, contribute to $50k in transaction volume, and help raise $100K in product funding. Leverages strong proficiency in Figma, interaction design, and information architecture to drive impactful product development across Android, iOS, and web platforms.

Work

Lykluk

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Product Designer

Malaysia, Remote, Malaysia

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Summary

Directed end-to-end product design for wallet infrastructure and payment flows across iOS, Android, and web, supporting a social commerce platform with 1.2k creators and 3k community members.

Highlights

Owned end-to-end design for wallet infrastructure and payment flows across iOS, Android, and web, supporting 1.2k creators and 3k community members on a social commerce platform.

Translated complex payment problems into clear user flows, prototypes, and specifications, covering fund transfers, transaction history, and KYC compliance across 3 platforms.

Built a modular design system from scratch in collaboration with engineering, shipping real-time checkout and live shopping experiences that improved conversion rates.

Mentored the design team and contributed to growing the product from 0 to 1,000 active users.

Centiiv

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Product Design Lead

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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Summary

Orchestrated end-to-end experience design for Centiiv 1.0 and 2.0, catering to four complex user roles and driving significant financial and fundraising outcomes.

Highlights

Led end-to-end experience design for Centiiv 1.0 and 2.0, covering 4 complex user roles: Liquidity Provider, Aggregator, Merchant, and Customer.

Drove design decisions across financial systems supporting global currencies and stablecoins, contributing to $50k in processed transaction volume across 200 businesses and 10k customers.

Built a modular design system that reduced engineering integration time by 15%, ensuring consistency across a high-volume transaction infrastructure.

Ensured high-quality design deliverables before engineering handoff across the full product lifecycle, from discovery and problem framing through to QA.

Led design work that directly contributed to the company raising $100,000 in funding.

Nazza

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UI/UX Designer

Abuja, Remote, Nigeria

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Summary

Spearheaded UI/UX design initiatives, including reward systems and onboarding flows, significantly enhancing user engagement and reducing drop-off rates for a mobile and web platform.

Highlights

Led design of reward systems across web and mobile, supporting over 5 billion naira in transaction volume.

Redesigned onboarding flows, cutting user drop-off by 10% and improving activation rates by translating research findings into user flows and high-fidelity prototypes.

Revamped the marketing website with clearer product storytelling and accessible UI patterns, significantly improving sign-up rates.

Conceptualized Nazza Wrapped 2025, driving year-end user engagement and social sharing.

Trollbox

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Product Designer (Contract)

Remote

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Summary

Led UI design for a Web3 social platform across mobile and web, optimizing development cycles through high-fidelity designs and close engineering collaboration.

Highlights

Led UI design for a Web3 social platform across mobile and web, delivering high-fidelity designs that cut development cycle time.

Collaborated closely with engineering to ensure seamless implementation and efficient design handoff.

Codevixen

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Product Designer

Remote

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Summary

Designed a responsive enterprise EdTech platform for five distinct user roles across web and mobile.

Highlights

Designed an enterprise EdTech platform serving 5 distinct user roles with fully responsive interfaces across web and mobile.

Ensured robust user experience and interface design for complex educational functionalities.

Education

Federal University of Technology, Akure

Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
Bachelor of Technology Industrial Design (Graphics section) Grade: First Class

Awards

Best Graduating Student

Federal University of Technology, Akure

Awarded for outstanding academic performance in the Department of Industrial Design (Graphics section).

Languages

English

Certificates

Google UX course

Google

PMP

PSMI

Claude Code in Action

IBM UX Research

IBM

SheFi Blockchain fundamentals Certification

SheFi

Reducing User Churn

Uxcel

Introduction to Human-Centered Design

IDEO.org

Microsoft Career Essentials in Generative AI

Microsoft

3D Design Foundation

Skills

Industry Expertise

Fintech, Web3, E-commerce, EdTech.

Platforms

iOS, Android, Web.

Design & Strategy

Product Design, UX Research, UI Design, Visual Design, Prototyping, Design Systems, Product Strategy, Product Requirement Documentation, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Developer Handoff.

Tools

Figma, Figma Make, Framer, Whimsical, Miro, Jitter, Canva, Photoshop.

Workflow & Management

Agile Methodologies, Product Management, Jira, Trello, Lark, Click Up, Notion, Google Suite.

AI Tools

Google Stitch, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Lovable, AI Prompt Engineering.

Leadership & Community Engagement

Product Design Mentor at She Code Africa, UI/UX Community Lead at Akure Tech Hub, Host at Friends of Figma Akure, Product Design Mentor at DigiHive Network, Product Design Mentor at UnleashHer Potentials, Core Team Member at Google Developer Student Club.