Congo - Brazzaville

Daniel Locko

Co-founder & UX-UI Lead

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

YUX is one of the first UX Design lab in Africa. Our passion is to train new talents, complete studies about human & tech interactions in Africa and support companies and startups in the development of digital products adapted to African populations and in their context.Missions:- Management :  UX brief & project scoping, process management, training and skills gap monitoring, delivery quality assurance.- UX & UI Design : wireframing, user workflow, graphic user interface design, style guide.- Qualitative studies : run field interviews, focus groups, infield observation.- Data Design : information architecture, interactive data visualisation & infographics- Ideation workshop and prototyping: animate design sprint ceremonies, concept & service blueprint, low-fi prototyping- Audit & Evaluation: run heuristic usability testing, user A/B testing, concept testing.

Applying Human Centered Design (HCD) methodologies on Digital Financial Services and projet management trough Lean UX and Design Sprint methodologies.Missions:- User research- User flow and experience maps- User stories and design specification document- Sitemap and Interaction design- Wireframes and Visual design (Adobe CC)- Digital prototypes (Invision and Adobe XD)- User testing- Quality Assurance

What a good experience it was! founding a startup specialized on building mobile and local apps through ANDROID and IOS platforms at the beginning of West African's massive services digitalisation wave, particularly in Senegal.- My missions was to ensure good user experience on mobile apps & web sites; managing a team of Graphics Designers.- We launched an African Digital+IT news aggregator called "GeekByJofa" to reveal how digital was used in Africa and in the rest of the world.

Digital agency focused on visual communicationMissions:- Branding : establishing client's visual brand identity, graphical styleguide, copywriting.- Print and social media : create flyers and posters for marketing campaign.- Web design : create user interfaces of websites by using tools like photoshop, firework, axure RP.

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