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Sarah is a Senior UX researcher, writer, and process nerd. Working from Toronto, her research experience includes fintech, automotive, safety and healthcare products and websites. She’s passionate about bridging the gap between users and teams with thoughtful inquiry and storytelling.
Sarah is a Senior UX researcher, writer, and process nerd. Working from Toronto, her research experience includes fintech, automotive, safety and healthcare products and websites. She’s passionate about bridging the gap between users and teams with thoughtful inquiry and storytelling.
Brenda is a tech-loving problem solver with a deep passion for meeting user needs and ensuring an optimal customer experience. With a solid foundation cultivated over the past 3 years, she has honed her skills in comprehending the dynamic landscape of agile product development, outlining customer needs, and utilizing data-driven insights to inform strategic product decisions. She transitioned from customer support to customer success to customer experience to product management; which has given her a well-rounded perspective on delivering exceptional user experiences on products.
Lade Tawak is an Experience Designer & UX Researcher who has worked with startups, agencies, and multinationals across the globe. She has an academic background in Psychology. She is passionate about Jesus, teaching, and building products, people, & communities.
Ogeh is an experienced product designer practicing human-centered design and crafting products and services with multidisciplinary teams at scale.
June Barasa is a strategic, innovative, and data-driven Product Manager in technology and innovation with diverse experiences in product development. She loves working on innovative and challenging products that enable people to become more efficient in their day-to-day.
Chris describes himself as a problem-solver with a knack for design. His design career is influenced by a background in Economics, International Trade and non-profit-management. His design style tends to be minimalist and symmetric, striving for simplicity and convenience.
Alex Wokabi Karanja is a design lead at Safaricom and a big believer of design with why. Through designOps (operational and project support), and collaboration with other different teams, he helps the entire business deliver value and superior experiences.
Vanissa Wanick is a Design Researcher, UX Designer & Educator. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Vanissa has more than 10 years of international experience in digital design and user experience design, working as a designer for several companies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vanissa has also published more than 20 papers in the area of games design, gamification, user interface design, brand experience, VR/AR/XR, cross-cultural design and engagement.
Lavet is a service and experience designer at African Leadership Group. She uses her design skills to tackle issues in the social impact space and has experience working in various sectors, including humanitarian aid, education, mental health, and climate restoration. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the streets of Bangkok and trying the local street food.
Pier is a digital product designer who loves to push great ideas to life through a human-centered approach. He has shaped digital products across different industries such as entertainment, banking and mobility. He’s currently tackling new challenges as Design Lead at Snapp Mobile.
Lemuel is a Product Manager at The Room, a social impact startup in Africa. Legal background & experience in leading African law firms. Transitioned to startup ecosystem: Sales, BD, Research & APM. Currently leading product discovery for new onboarding, activation & community engagement experiences. Plus, co-organizer of Africa Product Peers.
Charity is a Product Designer with 4+ years of experience working to solve problems at the intersection of business, consumers and technology. She has designed experiences for a diverse set of customers in ed-tech, e-commerce, fintech, and security, on mobile, web and desktop. She currently works at Microverse as a Product Designer, formerly a Experience (UX & Service) Designer.
Eric is an accessibility advocate, designer, developer, writer, and speaker.
Raven L. Veal, PhD is a Senior Strategic Designer at BCG X. Prior to joining BCG, Raven led innovation strategy at Citi Ventures and design research at IBM. Overall, Veal is passionate about advancing health equity and financial inclusion through the design of new ventures.
Benjamin Hoppe is a Freelance Designer in Toronto. He designs and builds software with the goal of reducing friction and creating unique user experiences.
Monica currently works as an Experience Design Manager at the ICRC, where she manages a team of UX Designers as well as the UX Design practice at the organization. Whether it's hosting design meetups, sharing design jobs online or writing about changes in the industry - anything that connects designers with one another gets her excited.
Courtney is a mixed methods researcher living in the Detroit, USA area. Her research experience includes automotive, govtech, voice AI and finance. She loves helping teams make evidence-based decisions that improve people’s lives and meet business objectives.
Rebecca Blakiston is a Senior UX Researcher at Ad Hoc, a company that improves government services. Previously, she was a UX Strategist and Librarian at the University of Arizona. She has a decade of experience advocating for data-informed, empathy-driven decisions.
Shpetim Ujkani is a Sr. Staff User Experience Designer at Google. He is designer connecting humans and computers, shaping tools for people and mentoring. Currently, responsible for leading the design at Mandiant ASM within Google Cloud Security and coordinating all core design initiatives—including establishing a consistent design system and improving cross-functional collaboration within many teams and design efforts.
Kofi is a product designer based in Accra, Ghana. He values human connection, growth & openness. He also enjoys solving difficult human problems through design. Previously, he was at Mest as a tech fellow teaching product design and mentoring.
Sasha Petrov is passionate about building things that have never been built before. Currently he is focused on creating products that empower individuals to become the best version of themselves utilizing technology and AI.
Otobong Okoko, Senior Product Designer at Zalando. He started his journey in tech as a front-end developer and transitioned to design over a 12-year professional career. His superpower is asking questions to empathize and uncover challenges that are not easily communicated and enjoys giving back to the community through mentoring.
Bavithra is a Product Manager with the MoneySmart Group. Bavithra enjoys the dynamic nature of product management and has 4 years of experience doing all things Product in Tech companies. On her free time, you can find her on the yoga mat or chilling with a good book.
We are back with Season 2 in 2023! Faruk Shuaibu is a product designer building in the education, agriculture, commerce, and health sectors, where he helped solve challenging problems. In his free time, he enjoys making music, mentoring designers, and playing competitive chess.
Hey everyone, happy holidays! We celebrate the season! I want to extend my gratitude to all the guests who have taken the time to share with us, and thank you to all listeners for supporting and helping the show to grow in many ways. We will see you in 2023, for SEASON TWO of the 7min Product Master Series Podcast!
It’s the final episode of Season One. Purity Waigi, Lead Product Manager, Content Experiences at Wikimedia Foundation. Purity is a curious mind currently intrigued by the needs of humanity which remain constant regardless of origin and experiences. She enjoys curating knowledge and bullet journaling as a creative outlet.
Godfrey Kimani, Product Designer at Safaricom PLC. Godfrey is a problem solver who cares about crafting products and experiences that leave a positive impact on people, the environment, and society. He's excited by the process of deriving user needs from research, creatively leveraging the power of technology to satisfy those needs, and thinking critically about the constraints and edge cases to make sure that the solution scales.
Dennis Gikunda, Design Lead at Wasoko. Dennis is mainly a product designer & strategist currently focused on solving complex problems in retail, across Africa. Passionate about creating meaningful products that have a positive impact on people's lives.
Andrew O’Regan, Interaction Director (Interim) at Novartis. Andrew has worked in design since the mid 00s, and currently is a design leader and manager. He really believes in deep cross functional collaboration and teams built with this as a principle, but ideally he'd prefer to be growing vegetables.
Sharon Wangari, Product Design lead at Paystack. She is a problem solver. She's worked with cross-functions across Africa to create value within the Healthcare, Logistics Retail FinTech, spaces.
Tessie Waithira, Researcher at Qhala. She's a mixed-methods researcher based in Nairobi Kenya. She studies and thinks about the social, cultural, and economic effects of technology to uncover needs, barriers, and opportunities, and how we can develop impactful solutions. Qhala is a digital consulting firm in Nairobi, Kenya.
Lorine Phoebe, Product Manager at Kasha Global, Inc. Solving problems is her forte. Comedy is her go-to remedy. Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care, and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
An interview hosted by Lewis Kang'ethe Ngugi with Joy Wambui, UX Researcher at Antara Health, patient-centered health care for everyone by adding AI-assisted health navigation to make the hard parts of healthcare easy for patients and providers.