Amara Chukwu
Senior Product Designer
Product designer with 8 years of experience leading design for fintech and e-commerce platforms across three continents. I turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.
Research Focus
Product designer with 8 years of experience leading design for fintech and e-commerce platforms across three continents. I turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.
Selected Publications
Designing Trust into Checkout Flows — UX Collective
Feb 2023
Research Projects
End-to-end redesign of the merchant-facing analytics and payouts dashboard.
A reusable component library that unified checkout across web and mobile.
Academic Appointments
Senior Product Designer
Paystack | Mar 2021 — Present
Lead designer for the merchant dashboard and payments checkout flow.
- — Redesigned checkout, lifting conversion 18%
- — Built and shipped the company's first design system
- — Mentored 4 junior designers
Product Designer
Jumia | Jun 2018 — Feb 2021
Owned end-to-end design for the seller onboarding experience.
- — Cut onboarding time from 12 minutes to 4
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science
University of Lagos (Jun 2017)
Awards
- Design of the Year — Fintech — Awwwards (Nov 2022)
Certifications
- Google UX Design Certificate — Google
Languages
References
Chinedu Okafor
VP Design at Paystack
Get in touch
Open to collaboration, speaking, or research inquiries.
amara@example.com