About
I'm Oluwafunmilola Olukanni, you can call me Funmi for short. A Senior Product Designer/UXUI with 8+ years of experience across banking, fintech, and enterprise products. I specialize in transforming complex, high-stakes business requirements into intuitive, scalable digital experiences that users trust.
My work spans the full design process from stakeholder discovery and user research to information architecture, prototyping, design systems, and post-launch iteration. I lead through craft and collaboration, ensuring design decisions are always grounded in data, business context, and genuine user empathy.
What Drives My Work
01
Research First
Every design decision is grounded in evidence. User research stakeholder discovery, and data analysis drive strategy before a single
pixel is placed.
03
Clarity Over Cleverness
02
System Thinking
I design components, patterns, and platforms not just screens. Every decision considers how it scales across the system.
04
Cross-Functional Leadership
Design is a team sport. I lead through influence aligning product,
engineering, and business around user needs.
my Career Journey
2022- 2025
CURRENT
Coronation Merchant Bank
UI/UX Designer & Design Engineer
Designed over 20+ portals, including key projects like the PayByCoronation Account Portal, BVN Consent Portal, Dangote ISOP Payment Portal, Lagos State Collection Payment Portal, FX Blotter Reporting System, BUA Payment Portals, and Fund Transfer API Portal using Figma. This involved designing intuitive dashboards, forms, and admin systems for both customer-facing and internal tools, improving user satisfaction by 45% (as per user feedback metrics).
Developed and deployed responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, ensuring cross-device compatibility and enhancing mobile traffic by 51% across various portals.
Designed and integrated UI components for significant internal tools: Corporate Intranet Portal Revamp and SharePoint Online Account Opening Portal. These integrations streamlined user interactions and improved internal efficiency by 40%, based on employee feedback.
Maintained and updated content across all websites and portals, ensuring brand consistency, responsive design, and alignment with evolving business needs, leading to a 25% reduction in bounce rates on key customer-facing portals.
Collaborated closely with IT and backend teams to implement interfaces, manage product feedback, and accelerate deployment timelines by 15%, ensuring that design vision was executed smoothly across all platforms.
2017- 2022
Tavia Technologies Limited
Product Designer & Front-end Developer
Led UI design and front-end integration for several high-impact MTN Nigeria projects, including the E-Ballot Portal Revamp, which streamlined internal election processes; the BULK SMS for Business Portal, which resulted in a 30% increase in platform traffic; the Online Health Declaration Portal, which boosted employee health compliance by 40%; and the Attestation Governance Policy Portal, which improved legal policy adherence by 50%.
UI integration and content management for multiple platforms on SharePoint 2016, Drupal, and WordPress, improving platform loading speeds by 26% and user satisfaction by 23%.
Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams (backend developers, content managers) to implement designs, ensuring seamless deployment and smooth user experience transitions. Reduced deployment time by 30% through efficient design feedback cycles.
Maintained and updated content across multiple high-traffic portals and intranet systems, ensuring brand consistency and adherence to design standards, contributing to a 20% reduction in content errors.
Improved the overall user experience of the internal and customer-facing portals, resulting in a 35% increase in employee efficiency and a 10% reduction in customer service queries.
2013
SwapSpace Systems
Product Designer Intern
Supported design and development of iamblaws, a photography-focused website, contributing to layout, visual design, and user flow improvements.
Collaborated with developers and designers to prototype features and ensure smooth hand-off between design and engineering.
Assisted in creating wireframes and mock-ups using Figma, incorporating feedback from team reviews and user testing.
Toolkit
Figma
Design
Zeplin
Handoff
FigJam
Collaboration
Confluence
Documentation
Adobe XD
Design
Hotjar
Analytics
Miro
Strategy
Notion
Documentation
Zeroheight
Design System
Lottie
Animation
Framer
Prototyping
Principle
Prototyping
Experience Across
Fintech
Enterprise Banking
Investment Banking
Digital Products
Design Systems
Contact
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Senior Product/UXUI Designer · Lagos, Nigeria