Nigeria

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Systems

AI Design

Precious Ikpen

Founder

Qualitative research

Communication

Critical-thinking

Leadership

Brand strategy

Trello

Webflow

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Blender

Canva

Figma

Framer

HTML

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Time management

Problem-solving

Design systems

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

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

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

Managing burnout

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Getting the most out of my internship

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

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

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

- Collaborating with the design, marketing, product, and sales teams to identify opportunities to create mechanisms/systems/campaigns to improve our adoption and positioning.
- Designing visuals and illustrations that effectively represent the brand and communicate our value proposition
- Creating and maintaining brand identities and assets, ensuring consistency across all platforms and materials.
- Executing projects to improve our social conversion metrics.
- Abstracting complicated concepts into illustrations, diagrams, or animations to communicate how Maplerad works to be used in docs, landing page, product, marketing etc

As the job title implies, this role pushed me to flex every creative muscle I had. These included but were not limited to Branding, Ad and Social Creative, Motion Design, Wed design, Web Development, Video Editing, Creative Direction, Print Design, and Presentation Design.

• Spearheaded Eden's comprehensive end-to-end rebrand, producing assets for awareness campaigns across all platforms.  
• Directed creative vision for the Big Brother Naija partnership for Homemade, generating over 100 million impressions.
• Revamped creative direction for Homemade (digital & product), that resulted in increased sales and brand positioning.  
• Owned execution of comprehensive brand and motion design projects for Eden & Homemade brands.
• Executed successful OOH campaigns that resulted in significant brand awareness increases.

This role centered on driving end-to-end creative services, from concept development to final execution, and overseeing branding, print, digital, and web design for diverse clients.

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