Photography
An ongoing personal practice spanning landscape, cities, agriculture and everyday life. I publish much less now, but the older body of work remains on Unsplash.
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Things I made because they were missing.
Some are tools pulled out of product work. Others exist because I kept looking for something, got annoyed that it wasn’t there and eventually accepted that this was apparently now my problem.
Product design resources
Tools pulled out of product work and made reusable.
Transaction states people can act on
A review map for payment flows: where the money is, what the system knows, what the user should do and who owns recovery.
Designing workflows for unreliable connections
An interruption review for workflows that can begin online, lose the connection halfway through and still need to finish without making the user repeat everything.
A trust decision map for unfamiliar financial products
A stage-by-stage review of the questions people need answered before they commit money to a product they do not already understand.
Turning repeated states into reusable product patterns
A pattern-promotion review for deciding when a recurring product answer belongs in the design system and what the pattern must carry beyond its visual component.
The Access Assumption Audit
A practical audit for finding the connectivity, device, language, literacy and delivery assumptions hidden inside a product flow.
Image-making & visual work
More public & community work
Most icon libraries can give you several flavours of cloud storage and somehow nothing that looks like a danfo, gele or mortar and pestle. Free, open and built around African people, places, objects and everyday life.
Visit project ↗Nigerian Mockups gives designers and marketers device and lifestyle scenes that look like the places their Nigerian products are actually being used.
Visit project ↗I co-founded Retna to make African stock photography easier to find, licence and, importantly, pay African photographers for.
Visit project ↗I’ve spent years mentoring designers and founders, formally and informally, through communities, accelerators and one-to-one conversations. A lot of mentoring is helping someone notice the problem they are actually trying to solve.
Visit project ↗See the primary product design work or writing & media.