Praise is an experienced brand & design specialist who leverages his background in brand strategy, consulting, visual design, art direction, marketing and communications to build and operate market-defining brands and products. With expertise in technology, financial services, and product design, he has successfully designed, built and scaled tech startups and brands. locally and internationally.

He is the Brand and Communications Lead at Bloc, one of Nigeria's top FinTech-as-a-Service infrastructure companies. Prior to this role, he led a consulting practice for a year developing brands and products for medium and large organizations such as FBN Quest Ltd, FCCPC Nigeria, Kwerty, Schull Technologies, etc

He is also an active part of communities, as a design speaker (and sometimes, an educator) and community contributor, helping creatives do design well.

I’m Hakeem and I create exceptional experiences that align your business strategy with your customers’ needs. I also write to help people build, launch, and scale amazing products.

I am an open-minded designer that designs with simplicity and usability in mind, nicely blended with beautiful design modern aesthetics. I never limit myself to just one creative field so I’m always pushing to design new things and explore new boundaries. I’m constantly evolving, learning, and growing, so you can expect working with me to be a fun and exciting experience.

My process entails leveraging my experience in various disciplines—software development, design, art, and overall technology to inspire creative ways to solve business problems through design.

Professionally, I make use of tools like Figma, Invision, Balsamiq, Whimsical et.al to give out quality designs that users find useful and usable.

When I am not designing, you will see me advocating for open-source or teaching design.

A creative doer, engaging and insightful design professional who is motivated by a desire to solve problems, design thoughtful and engaging products with the intention to solve the users need by improving processes and customers experience while also positively impacting Company growth.

With the proven ability to work within the constraints of an existing design system to make improvements to certain parts of a digital product. I can fit into various creative space as a UX designer, Product designer, graphic designer, or UI designer. I like to take ownership of each project and really put in all my energy into coming up with solutions that are human centred and feasible to implement while also solving business Goals.