2026 · Dev tools · Web app
Reel
You type what to show, Reel does the clicking. I designed it end to end, from positioning to every screen, then built it. Just me and Claude 🌚
Empty repo to feature parity with the category leader in 12 days.
Senior Product Designer · Lagos, Nigeria
I design products for real people.
Six years designing fintech, field-ops and platform products, from interviews on job sites with zero bars to design systems with enough documentation to pass as law in a small country. These days I build what I design too, so real users get it in days and nothing gets lost in the handoff.
Previously atFixaOurPassZerohuman
Then I build them, because it's not all in the Figma file 😒
✦ Tidy grouped these: de·sign·er who builds (noun)
Leaves the office.
Talks to the people who actually use the thing, even when that means a job site with zero bars.
Designs the error states.
Then meets the ones no Figma file could have shown him, and designs those too.
Names things properly.
surface/primary, not #FFFFFF. Engineers notice. So does future him.
Puts it in front of real users.
Because watching someone click submit three times teaches more than fifty frames.
6 yrs
designing products people use every day
3
industries: fintech, field ops and AI platforms
2 hats
My LinkedIn headline and I are still negotiating 🫠
Latest work.
designed with care, tested on real people, and lately built by me too
Roomy — read the case study ↗ (in progress)
2026 · Collaboration · Web app
Roomy
“Great workshop. Now who’s sorting 200 sticky notes?” Roomy is a whiteboard with live cursors, offline support and Tidy, an AI that sorts the wall of stickies so nobody stays back after the workshop.
Every screen designed in Figma first. Now building the canvas engine from scratch, no whiteboard SDK. This page is basically its fan art.
Fixa web — read the case study ↗
Personal redesign · Fintech · Web app
Fixa Web
Redesigned the web app businesses use to run attendance and pay thousands of field workers to mobile money.
Every risk shows up before you press pay.
Fixa mobile — read the case study ↗
Personal redesign · Fintech · Mobile
Fixa Mobile
Redesigned the supervisor app that clocks in field crews, works without signal, and now recognises faces.
Offline by default. Never guesses who someone is.
more case studies on request. They're long, bring tea ☕
A tiny fraction of the pixels.
I'm a very visual person. Here's some evidence.
I've got your back with…
the tender heart of a designer, and the cold, pragmatic eye of the other guys 🌚
Design
- User research
- Field interviews
- Product strategy
- Interaction design
- Design systems
- Usability testing
- Visual design
Build
- Prototypes in real code
- Front-end builds
- Design tokens in code
- AI-assisted engineering
- Live previews for testing
same person, different cursor
The guy behind the pixels.
I'm John, a senior product designer in Lagos. For six years I've designed products for people with real constraints: patchy networks, payday deadlines, and founders who needed it yesterday.
I'm happiest when a product meets real users and survives. That's where most of the learning lives, not in the wireframes. Lately I build what I design too, and I care about the design side more than ever, because now I live with every decision all the way to the browser.
Fewer things get lost in the handoff. Mostly because the handoff is me talking to myself 🫠
Currently:
opening a pull request, unsure which hat I'm wearing.
Lagos, right now
--:-- WAT
Got an idea that needs real users?
Bring the messy version. I'll bring Figma and a code editor.