ANULIKA J. NWANKWO
Passionate about IT Products, Human Centered design and deeply committed to creating products that improves people's lives through research, user research and insights into the user needs, preferences and behaviours. I sketch out ideas and wireframes, creating beautiful and functional apps and websites.
anuri.nwankwo@gmail.com
AVIUM
Senior Product Manager, Nov '22 - Aug '24
Lead user interface design & wireframing. Working closely with engineering team to design custom interfaces around the implementation of the app. Enrich user experience and interaction and creatively develop new design concepts and work with graphic artists. Steer wireframe design by utilizing Figma for more than 200 wireframes elements and layouts as well as upholding the best UI/UX practices and ensuring usability, playability and visual excitement of the app. Focusing on user experience research and product design strategy to assess user needs by qualitative and quantitative research while brainstorming ideas for usable designs, graphics, and , fixing UI issues. Design low & high-fidelity user-interface prototypes encompassing mobile and tablet interface screens. Run user experience and testing to analyze app usability on the prototype with a group of representative users to improve the design and identify problems as well as enhance experience at the journey, interaction, and relationship level by utilizing customer data & prior user engagement
DEV & DESIGN
GTMERCH
Product Designer (Remote) Oct '22 - Dec'23
Worked with a global team of product designers to research and build a case study for a Smart laundry mobile app aimed at helping smart washing device owners to remotely operate their laundry machines. Developed business goal and vision, carried out an indepth competitor research and analysis, outlined the technical requirements , made user surveys and analyzed insights. Designed low fidelity wireframes using the userflow sketches and created high fidelity prototypes.
Led user Interface design and high fidelity designs, prototyping. Led the design and delivery of the website including brand elements design, responsive website, theme development as well as design wireframes by utilizing Figma for wireframes elements and layouts and applied the UX design principles to deliver a visually appealing website
An Edtech Startup in Eastern Europe providing technical learning experience for Kids through gamification.
A renowned Design and Software Engineering Company
Lead Web Designer, Nov '22 - Jan '23
A growing startup in Russia that uses the capability of AR technology to design products for 100+ clients in Europe
ULMOST DESIGN & INNOVATION AGENCY
An IT Products, Industrial Design and Innovation Agency
Senior Product Manager & UX Design Lead, Dec '23 - Present
I'm pioneering an active multidisciplinary Agile team with a Scrum and SAFe approach, leading and owning product processes, product vision, product ideation, development, launch, managing growth and scaling of IT products, with a focus on the stakeholders vision, market demands and user demands, facilitating sprint planning, product backlog ordering, retrospectives, and cross-team dependencies while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. In our agile team, I am accountable for managing the Product Backlog ensuring it is continually kept up to date with the most recent insights for the developers to have a view of all work to be done and any changes to be made to the product including evolving, and emerging changes as the work is being done.
I define the product vision, goals and priorities and ensure that the team is working in alignment with the product strategy and user needs. I oversee Digital Products and end-to-end product strategy. I ensure translation of complex user needs into intuitive, user-centred solutions, establishing product vision. I review complex user journeys and interaction flows and ensure technical feasibility and optimal user experience alignment for the products.
EUIDEM TECHNOLOGIES
Digital Product Manager, Aug '21 - Jul '22
My role as a product manager at Euidem Technologies was interesting. I was involved in defining product requirements, generating product ideas to improve performance, and strategic and short-term planning for the development of IT solutions. It was my duty as Product manager to create a release plan – planning to bring a product to market, create, analyze, and test product improvement hypotheses, build a product roadmap, conduct Market research on the functionality of competitive solutions and products, formulate product requirements, risk analysis and calculation.
A Software development company in West Africa.
EDUCATION
2022-2024
Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology Entrepreneurship
Innopolis University, Russia.
2020-2022
Master of Science, Science Technology and Innovation Management & Policy
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
2008-2011
Bachelor of Science, Accounting
Cross River University of Technology, Nigeria
TOOLS
Figma
SKILLS
Affinity Mapping
User Journey Mapping
Sketching
Customer Development
Persona Profiling
Interactive Prototyping
Visual Design
Mobile Design
Design Systems Engineering
Product Strategizing
Market Research & Sizing
Usability Testing
Qualitative Research (User Interviews)
Quantitative Research
Research Plan Development
Research Analysis and Synthesizing
Information Architecture
Wireframing
MoSCoW Method
Lean UX
Design Sprints
Tailwind
Material Design
Ant Design
Atomic Design
WCAG
Kano Model
FRAMEWORK
Lean Startup
AARRR Metrics
SWOT Analysis
Jira
Kanban
Miro
Mural
Amplitude
Hotjar
Zeplin
Zeroheight
CICD Pipeline
Scrum
Product Idea Discovery
Product Vision Alignment
Advanced Product Quality Planning
Product Metrics tracking
Agile cross-functional collaboration
Product Requirement Documentation
Backlog Prioritization
Product Roadmap Management
Complex Stakeholder Management
Product Ownership
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
SAFe
Jobs to Be Done (JTBD)
User Story Mapping
Stakeholder Mapping
RACI Matrix
A/B Testing
Frontify
Supernova
ANULIKA NWANKWO
Product Designer + Product Manager
hello@anulikajoy.com
MEDIUM /
📍North Holland, The Netherlands.