Writing & speaking.
Published articles, essays, talks, panels, interviews and podcast appearances. Only entries with a working, verifiable source appear here.
An essay on designing offline-first products by treating unreliable connectivity as a condition to design for, not an edge case.
BusinessDay — An op-ed connecting payments, user behaviour and inequality — a product designer’s view of financial inclusion beyond the interface.
The Guardian Nigeria — Coverage of the African Icon Library, a free collection of culturally specific icons and illustrations created to give designers better visual resources for representing African people, objects and everyday life.
Technext — An article on how brands can build stronger customer relationships by tracking what matters, connecting customer touchpoints, testing quickly and earning trust.
Tomiwa Ogunmodede’s Substack — A reflection on my transition from founding designer into product leadership across Farmcrowdy, Earlybean, Mular, Kolibri, and operational service products, with a focus on the systems, trade-offs, and organisational machinery behind good interfaces.
Tomiwa Ogunmodede’s Substack — A fintech essay drawn from Mular and Earlybean on why protective friction, legible state, and trust infrastructure matter more than seamless UI when users are moving money in high-anxiety environments.
Tomiwa Ogunmodede’s Substack — A systems-design essay on why senior product work happens behind the screen, in permissions, workflows, data models, operational reality, and the organisational decisions that interfaces eventually expose.
A presentation later connected to the BusinessDay fintech op-ed above.
Business Africa Online — An interview on how I use research, inclusive design and product strategy to build products around the realities of African users and markets.