When I was 17, in my second year of University, taking elective French. I would practice the following lines: Je suis Nkem, Je suis Nigériane. Tu parle Anglais? This was because I knew that one day I would arrive in a French-speaking country and would need to communicate that while…

A heuristic analysis of the medium app — Medium is a digital publishing platform that gives amateur and professional writers and publications the chance to either tell stories or publish articles on a range of topics. Writers and the owners of publications are not the only users of Medium. …

So I locked my heart away — Asa I like to listen to podcasts because it has some of my favourite things-smart people, conversations, and stories. I listen to 2 podcasts religiously — Modern Love and Revisionist History. The former is my favorite. It is the most accurate representation of…

In words, I find my home. It doesn’t matter if it is from the lips of other people, in books or in the ones I write. I am most at peace when I am in the presence of the alphabet arranged in a cohesive, coherent way. On the days when…

The basic elements of typography — Digital products have a number of things in common, and one of the many overarching qualities of all digital products is the usage of text for the provision of information that users and potential users might need to understand. This is where typography comes in. …

The tiny words on a product are there for a reason — Here, I delve into what Information architecture (IA) means, how it influences User experience and the key components of IA. In its granularity there are many other smaller units that influence and guide Information Architecture and one of these smaller units is UX Writing. The content on a digital product…

How does Information Architecture play out in product design What is Information Architecture One of the hallmarks of a functional system is the presence of order, how things are placed and arranged to create the most seamless and stress free experience. Information architecture (IA) is the structural ordering of information…

On the purpose of User Research at Monzo, Samantha Davies, former Lead Researcher at Monzo says this “Research helps determine the direction we’re going — what problems we want to solve next — and how we go about solving those.” This echoes the popular Gregg Berstien saying which is “the…

Working in teams can be hard to navigate — For a Product Design programme, it is not unexpected that we learn User Research, this for me is the most important part of this programme. I currently work in User Research and as I like to say, I am a UX Research baby. This alludes to the fact that I…