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BECOMING A WORLD-CLASS DESIGNER

BECOMING A WORLD-CLASS DESIGNER

Date and time: Fri, May 15, 2020; 11:00 – 12:00 UTC
Location: Online

About the Meetup

Becoming “world class” at anything is not easy, but like all journeys, it begin with one step.

We will be inviting Guidione Machava who is currently a product designer at Lepsta Inc. Guidione will be sharing his career journey so far and exploring the career requirements for professional designers and unravel that complexity by giving fresh perspective to world-class design. If you’re interested in breaking into product design or becoming a better product designer yourself, join us on this ride.

There will also be a workshop on collaborative design with Olayanju Idris, a process driven Freelance UI/UX designer passionate about building digital products for brands and startups. The workshop will cover best tools and practices for collaborative design.

About our Speakers

Guidione Machava

Guidione build and ship products. This is exactly what he does at Lepsta, where they are building the developers tool of the future playing the UX Designer role. Previously he worked for an award-winning Mozambican company delivering technical solutions for social and economic development of emerging markets where, besides communication and project management, Guidione served as a technical consultant for World Bank's Mozambique-based projects.

As Design advocate, founded the IxDA Maputo chapter, became Country Manager of Interaction Design Foundation for Mozambique and member of the Pan Afrikan Design Institute. He currently runs a podcast series of interviews with world-class designers interviews from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others.

He is also the Head of Community Development at Lepsta Developers, a community of “futuristic developers” with a keen interest in the future of software development with activities in 11 cities and 6 countries.

Olayanju Idris

Olayanju is a process driven Frelance UI/UX designer passionate about building digital products for brands and startups. His expertise lies in strategy, user experience, product design , information Architecture, user research , journey mapping and brand identity design

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IxDF Educational Partner distinction: Awarded for outstanding educational impact
IxDF Local Leader distinction: Local Leader of an IxDF Local Group
IxDF Community Leader distinction: Awarded for serving as an influential IxDF community leader
IxDF Connected Professional distinction: Attended 10 or more IxDF Meetups
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Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Richard Tamunotonye

Interaction Desinger at Productsio

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