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Nov 30, 2021

A Redesign for 7million Users in 190 Countries

Redesigning a great product requires 3 things: deep research, attention to detail, and keeping things simple. This helped to scale a product from 0-7 million customers in 5 years. My Experience Some months ago a recruiter from a top video editing company — Invideo, reached out and ask if I’d be interested…

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A Redesign for 7million Users in 190 Countries
A Redesign for 7million Users in 190 Countries

Published in UX Collective

·Jun 24, 2021

UX Strategy: Giving your product an edge

If your product was to be launched today, it will probably be one out of the 3,739 others to be launched before midnight. Products, features, ideas are shipped at a blazing speed every day. How do you make your product stand out? What can you do to increase your chances? There’s a concept I learned that has helped me build successful products for brands and businesses and I’d love to share it with you.

Product

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UX Strategy: Giving your product an edge
UX Strategy: Giving your product an edge

Mar 4, 2021

Software Engineer turned Product Designer: Remembering a significant time in my Career Life.

Exactly this day 2 years ago, I had a turning point in my career life. The day was March 4th, 2019 I joined Andela as a Software Engineer. This was major for me because this was the first big international tech company I got opportuned to work with. I vividly…

Product Design

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Software Engineer turned Product Designer: Remembering a significant time in my Career Life.
Software Engineer turned Product Designer: Remembering a significant time in my Career Life.

Published in Bootcamp

·Oct 23, 2020

What you should know about user research & usability testing

I was reading a post from a creative director recently and among what he wrote, he said that during interviews, he finds that candidates usually focus more on their UI skills and when he asks them questions around user research and usability testing, most of the candidate had very little…

UI

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What you should know about user research & usability testing
What you should know about user research & usability testing

Published in UX Collective

·Aug 18, 2020

Why engineers shouldn’t design your entire product

The primary goal of any business is to provide valuable services to users that will generate revenue and facilitate business growth. Selecting the right development team is very important. — As the 21st century keeps coming up with new innovations and advancements, users are always presented with a wide variety of product options and it is your job to grab your users' attention within the few seconds of attention span he/she can spare you. …

User Experience

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Why engineers shouldn’t design your entire product
Why engineers shouldn’t design your entire product

Published in The Capital

·Jul 31, 2020

The silent wave changing the future

By Raymond Akalonu on The Capital — During the late 20th century, the world saw an emerging trend, many didn’t fully grasp what it was, but it was what it was — The internet! One more is slowly taking over. Back in the 90's majority of the people didn’t know about the incoming wave called the internet…

Blockchain

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The silent wave changing the future
The silent wave changing the future

Apr 15, 2020

Why CHTML will make the lives of Front-end developers better

It’s no news that web-native might be the next big thing in web development. I decided to compare CHTML — one of the technologies in web-native’s tool kits with react. The underlining problem You see, within the last few years, we’ve seen a spike of new technology frameworks especially in the front-end…

React

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Why CHTML will make the lives of Front-end developers better
Why CHTML will make the lives of Front-end developers better

Apr 9, 2020

I’m joining web-native!

Hey, Awesome! I am pleased to announce that I am joining Web-native as a Front-end Engineer and Developer Relations!🎉 I am responsible for: Recommending conceptual, UI/UX and, architectural designs for the products, Building relationships with the awesome developers in the eco-system and, Encouraging community involvement by sharing what you can…

Web Native

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I’m joining web-native!
I’m joining web-native!

Dec 31, 2019

2019 — A year in review

When I reflect on my Journey this year, it fills me with joy. This was not the case in the early days of this year. When this year started, I had faced rejections and imposter syndromes. Why is that? A little tale of history Prior to the start of this year, I re-applied to the…

Growth

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2019 — A year in review
2019 — A year in review

Oct 6, 2019

5 must-know array methods in React

React is the most popular front-end library at the moment. This makes it very important to understand some core concepts that will help you improve your development process. In this blog post, I’ve compiled some very popular array methods that are frequently used in react project. …

Java Script

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5 must-know array methods in React
5 must-know array methods in React
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