United Kingdom

Nanodegree

Certification

Master of Arts - MA

Bachelor of Science - BS

Dede Adeyanju

Product Designer

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Chase, a recently introduced digital bank in the UK, is committed to ensuring a rewarding banking experience for our customers. 

The Chase UK mobile app offers simple ways for customers to manage their finances according to their preferences, accompanied by effortless access to our team of customer support experts, backed by established trust already by millions in the United States.

Managed app login experience, and now managing end to end in-app cards and customer rewards experience.

Mentoring budding & new designers, helping them leverage their experiences so far.

Collaborated with UX Design colleagues and the BBC team during my master’s program–summer semester to design experiences, which enhanced leisure activities like canoeing and drawing, with the use of sounds.

Worked with a team of UX Designers to design for the launch of a creative cultural experience, bringing elements of key architectural and sophisticated sites in the city, as a collaborative project towards my spring semester.

Conducted thorough research around the Activities, Environment, Interactions, Objects and Users, using the AEIOU information gathering technique, and interviewed city locals around the Barbican centre, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London Symphony Orchestra and Museum of London to derive insights to make design decisions

Spleet is a prop-tech company building a future for effective rent management, creating comfortable and convenient living solutions to ensure freedom, equity and efficiency across Africa, fostering innovation in real estate.

Led the design of a new product offering, a property maintenance app for Spleet members, hosts, and Spleet administrators, which enhanced home maintenance standard by 80% while collaborating with a product manager and 3 engineers.

Coordinated extensive user research, identified pain points and developed design of Value-Added services for Spleet members which fostered business partnerships across other industries (health, insurance, food servicing and loan financing). 

Reviewed and improved the company's landing page and decreased bounce rate by 30%, increasing time on page by 53% with a 40% increase in space bookings and customer activation. 

Impacted customer support dependency by 30% after directing and redesigning the user journey to booking a space and finding available nearby spaces

Collaborated from the product design and engineering team to build an enterprise application for the bank’s Human Resource Service Desk to improve and consolidate end-to-end HR service processes; restructured communication flow among 8 departments and cut down paperwork by 75%.

Conceptualized high quality designs for a suite of products created to help individuals, small and medium-sized businesses in Nigeria, to manage their finances.

Translated concepts into user flows, wireframes, Lo-fi prototypes using whimsical and Figma which increased the team’s workflow and capacity to complete project by 38% in comparison to previous project delivery and timeline.

E-Learning Design, while freelancing and building personal design projects.

Conceived and managed the creative & graphic design direction for product communications, created content in form of articles, creative copies and marketing campaigns that generated customer engagement on all company's social platforms.

Spearheaded digital marketing strategies that led to the acquisition of 3000 new agents in 3 months.

Simultaneously functioned within social media and customer support role, resolving customer complaints and reducing customer centre by aiding customer’s understanding of the different product and its functionalities.

Developed digital content strategies that led to a 30% increase in follower engagement across platforms.

Scheduled engaging content marketing designs for Instagram and grew followers from 250,000+ to over 312,000+ among other content and growth strategies I initiated.

Designed Wordpress website for blog, with a weekly increase in blog visits and reading engagement.

Created different content materials from blog posts, Newsletters, Instagram posts with trendy & engaging copy, Twitter posts, medium articles, with aligned visual designs and photography, that drove engagement across all the social media platforms and led to blog, newsletter and social media growth.

Grew accounts significantly with over 10k+ on Instagram, 30k+ on twitter and 2k+ newsletter subscribers.
 
Increased engagement across board to over 1.1M in tweet impressions on twitter, 15%+ engagement rate on Instagram and over 55% newsletter read rate

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