Writing & talks.
Essays, conference talks, and conversations on product design, fintech, emerging markets, and building in Africa.
On moving from founding designer into product leadership across Farmcrowdy, Earlybean, Mular, and Kolibri; the systems, trade-offs, and organisational machinery behind good interfaces.
Why protective friction, legible state, and trust infrastructure matter more than seamless UI when users are moving money in high-anxiety environments. Drawn from Mular and Earlybean.
Senior product work happens behind the screen: in permissions, workflows, data models, operational reality, and the organisational decisions that interfaces eventually expose.
Lessons from building Kolibri, a platform that had to work in schools with no reliable internet across 200+ countries.
African market-specific UX patterns, from data-light experiences to culturally resonant iconography.