Digitizing SACCOs | Kwara
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Hi, I'm Lewis. Product Designer at ∞ Lookback.
Passionate about community building, mentorship and solving problems in our everyday life.
Former Product Designer and Growth Marketing Lead at Kwara. Former UX Specialist at Safaricom (Alpha, Innovation Lab).
👨🎨 Selected Work
A Fresh New Look | ARK Africa Redesigned
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Mobility for the Visually Impaired | The Able Cane
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🎙️ My version of a Ted talk
Connecting designers across Africa during COVID-19 🇰🇪 Lewis Kang'ethe, The Fearless Community
An interview hosted by Whitney Ogutu and Bailey Richardson with Lewis Kang'ethe, the community lead for the African chapter of The Fearless Community. They are bringing together design leaders to share knowledge and stay connected during lockdown.
Published on March 1st, 2021: by the Get Together team - People & Company →
The designer role in a startup
Design is central to the revolution and growth of the African startup ecosystem. At FFA, we want to celebrate Design influence within startups and organisations. The talk was about how design is helping startups in Africa change the narrative of innovation on the continent through these inspiring talks.
Presented at 2020: Hatch by FFA: Design month 🎨 by FFA x Fearless - Slides →
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Prioritization of UX Issues
It’s our one-hour live Twitter discussion (via the #uxchat Twitter hashtag) where you can rub virtual shoulders with some of the most knowledgeable UXperts on the planet and discuss a different UX topic every week. I was answering the following questions:
- How do you prioritize features? How do you factor in technical feasibility, importance to users, and importance to business?
- How do you create systems that will help you track and prioritize user feedback?
- Are there techniques out there that can help prioritize UX issues?
Presented at 2019: #UXChat by UserZoom - Twitter Moment →
User Research / Design in Foreign and Emerging Markets
It’s our one-hour live Twitter discussion (via the #uxchat Twitter hashtag) where you can rub virtual shoulders with some of the most knowledgeable UXperts on the planet and discuss a different UX topic every week. I was answering the following questions:
- How would you approach user research / UX design across different cultures in an emerging market?
- What methods do you use when creating digital solutions for non-digital audience?
- How do you build trust with research participants as a foreigner?
Presented at 2019: #UXChat by UserZoom - Twitter Moment →
🎯 Essays
Launched design/research directories
Built both talent and hiring boards for the Kenyan product/design space.→
Managing your Design Project
How we use Slack, Trello, TeamGantt, Illustrator, Photoshop and Zeplin for a design project →
Scheduling your life as a Freelancer
Working for yourself means you can control your availability and also your income →
UX folks in Kenya that you have to follow
Wanted to say on Twitter OR Medium but… →
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💬 Contact me
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My resume
Self-taught designer with more than 6yrs of experience →
⚒️ Resources
[FREE] Job Search Tracker template
Opportunity hunting isn't easy and after a while of doing it, I built a template to help with that →
UX/UI/Product Design Slack groups
Join all these groups to up your Design skills →
Lessons I learnt from Scott Chacon (Founding CTO at Github)
During the "Power Speaker Series" hosted by @ianetworktweets →
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🏗️ Side projects
Product (Design & Research) talent and hiring boards
Make it exponentially easy to hire in the Kenyan product/design space
A - Z logos
Push through to finish the A-Z logos and more...
🧲 Random
Tool Stack
My favorite tools and software as a Product Designer. →
Morning Routine Sketchnote
Took on to learn some quick and handy sketching techniques that will propel your visual communication skills to the next level. →
🔥 Top read
Working as a UX-lead
The title says it all, as a UX-lead there’s far less design and much more leading →
Remove .html, extensions with .htaccess
Makes your website visitor think highly of you from a tech perspective →