LAGOS, NIGERIA

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Samuel Ekwenze

Product & Visual Designer

+234(0) 9064122943, 8179731772

About

Product and Visual Designer with experience across immigration technology, edtech, fintech and real estate. Lead designer on an AI-powered immigration SaaS platform, responsible for the website, AI agent interfaces, CRM and consultant dashboards, and a design system of 100+ tokens and reusable components. Shipped products serving 10,000+ active users, including an AI mobile application that reached 10,000 downloads in week one and an AI community platform for US Immigrants with over 5000+ users.

Delivered a 10% improvement in task completion rates and a 25% reduction in manual user effort through research-led design changes. Skills: User research, Information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, interaction design, design systems, accessibility, developer handoff. Tools: Figma, Figma Make, Adobe Creative Suite, AI-assisted design workflows.

Experiences

Founding Product Designer

IMMIGIFY, TEXAS, U.S.A

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April 2025-Present

• Led end-to-end product design of the Immigify website, AI agent interfaces, CRM and SaaS platforms as the company's first product designer, establishing a scalable design system that reduced design-to-development handoff time by 40%.
• Designed the UX for Immigify's CRM and SaaS platforms, translating complex immigration compliance workflows into accessible interfaces that improved operational efficiency and supported a 30% growth in paying users.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering and AI teams to ship Immigify's AI agent interfaces, delivering human-centred design solutions that reduced user onboarding friction by 25% and improved retention across the platform.
•Contributed to the company's successful $1M pre-seed raise through product design work that demonstrated platform capability and market readiness to investors.

UI/UX Designer

Boulevard Legacy LLC, NYC, U.S.A

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DEC 2024- JULY 2025

• Designed and shipped a LinkedIn scraping web app called Simplexity enabling users to extract and organize public data for targeted networking, streamlining the prospecting workflow and reducing manual research effort by 25%.
• Led the end-to-end UX and UI design of HeightGPT, an AI-powered decision-making tool focused on personal growth, prioritizing usability and interaction design which was launched successfully gaining over 10,000+ downloads on Google Play Store and App Store.
• Consistently recognised for design excellence across projects, receiving multiple stakeholder appraisals for delivering high-quality, user-centred work that balanced business objectives with seamless user experience.

UI/UX Designer

iExcelo, LAGOS

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NOV 2025- FEB 2026

• Designed the end-to-end UI/UX of iExcelo's landing page and core platform, a Nigerian edtech platform offering exam revision tools for WASSCE and secondary school students.
• Architected the student dashboard experience, designing revision workflows and progress tracking interfaces that improved user engagement and reduced time-to-task by 30%.
• Delivered multi-persona UX design across three user journeys, students, sponsors and affiliates, ensuring each interface aligned with the unique needs and mental models of every user group.

Education

Associate Degree in Computer Science

University of The People,U.S.A

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2024-Present


Diploma in Product Design

Vephla University,UK

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2023-2024


Skills / Stack

UI/UX Design

Framer Development

Mobile App Design

Web App Design

Design Systems

Micro Interactions

Languages

Spanish

Basic

English

Fluent

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