I Built Something Beautiful That Nobody Could Use
Before I understood design, I thought it meant making things look good on Dribbble. But anything beautiful that doesn't work is useless.
Read ArticleFestus Andrew
A Design Engineer bridging UI/UX and production-ready code at startup speed.
UI/UX DESIGNER & DESIGN ENGINEER
UI/UX Designer & Design Engineer with 4+ years of experience. I bridge the gap between design and production by crafting premium design systems in Figma and shipping high-performance code fast for startups and SaaS products.
+4
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
+12
PROJECTS SHIPPED
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WORLDWIDE CLIENTS
DYNAMIC ANIMATION • FRONTEND ENGINEER • UI/UX DESIGN • DYNAMIC
ANIMATION • FRONTEND ENGINEER • UI/UX DESIGN •
DYNAMIC ANIMATION • FRONTEND ENGINEER • UI/UX DESIGN • DYNAMIC
ANIMATION • FRONTEND ENGINEER • UI/UX DESIGN •
FRAMER • FIGMA • WORDPRESS • REACTJS • NEXTJS • CSS3 • HTML5 • FRAMER
• FIGMA • WORDPRESS • REACTJS • NEXTJS • CSS3 • HTML5 •
FRAMER • FIGMA • WORDPRESS • REACTJS • NEXTJS • CSS3 • HTML5 • FRAMER
• FIGMA • WORDPRESS • REACTJS • NEXTJS • CSS3 • HTML5 •
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RECENT PROJECTS
TypeScript
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Figma
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JOURNEY
+4 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Aika
CEO & Founder
Remote · Delivery WhatsApp chatbot connecting vendors to dispatch riders
- Serving as CEO and Lead Architect, driving the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a WhatsApp delivery chatbot that connects e-commerce vendors to dispatch riders.
- Designed and engineered the conversational flows and matching algorithms to streamline logistics, dispatch assignment, and real-time delivery tracking.
- Architected integration with WhatsApp Business APIs and messaging frameworks to handle automated delivery requests, pricing estimates, and rider dispatch.
- Collaborated with local vendors and logistics partners to refine user experience flows, reducing delivery coordination times and increasing dispatch efficiency.
MployUs Ireland
Product Designer
Remote · Irish HR, locum, and recruitment technology platform
- Redesigned over 70 screens across 13 product pages spanning HR management, locum staffing, and recruitment dashboards establishing a coherent design language and reusable Figma component library used across the entire product.
- Scoped and designed Locum Management System, a companion mobile app for locum professionals, producing 22 screens with validated interaction patterns across iOS and Android form factors.
- Partnered closely with stakeholders to map legacy workflows, document UX defects, and deliver structured design specifications that guided the engineering team through a full-scale product overhaul.
- Enforced WCAG and healthcare data privacy compliance across all dashboard interfaces, ensuring the product met accessibility and regulatory expectations for healthcare and HR environments.
Bluehouse Technologies
Product Design Team Lead
Jos, Nigeria · Tech training and software product company
- Led a team of designers building a collaborative startup platform owning the design system, setting quality standards, and coordinating design-to-engineering handoffs across Agile sprints; contributed to a 40% uplift in active user engagement post-launch.
- Designed and facilitated UI/UX training programs for 25+ designers covering interaction design, Figma best practices, and design system thinking elevating the overall capability of the product team.
- Managed design documentation and test coverage for student-facing platforms, maintaining traceability between design requirements and shipped features across multiple product versions.
- Enforced privacy-by-design principles on a learning platform serving 200+ indigenous language users, integrating data compliance and security thinking into every design decision from the ground up.
CoLab Innovation Hub
UI/UX Designer
Kaduna, Nigeria · Innovation and technology hub
- Conducted structured user research — interviews, surveys, and A/B testing translating qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable product improvements across multiple iteration cycles.
- Mapped end-to-end workflows to surface process inefficiencies, then designed and validated a workflow automation solution that reduced administrative workload.
- Produced comprehensive design documentation in Confluence and authored detailed UI style guides in Sketch, creating a reliable design-to-development handoff system that minimised implementation ambiguity.
NGSoft
Frontend Developer
Kaduna, Nigeria · Software development company
- Built and maintained the frontend of a high-volume vehicle registration platform (10,000+ vehicles/year) using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript delivering responsive, performant interfaces aligned to user experience requirements.
- Collaborated with backend engineers via RESTful APIs and Git, implementing seamless frontend-backend integrations and resolving cross-functional technical issues.
- Used Chrome DevTools for performance profiling, debugging, and cross-browser compatibility testing improving platform reliability and load time significantly.
- Maintained clear design-to-code documentation, supporting consistent implementation and reducing regression issues across development cycles.
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Got a project in mind? Fill out the form or send me an email, and let's bring your vision to life.
festusandrew23@gmail.com