Opeyemi Ajimati

I’m Opeyemi, a senior product designer. I work on software for long, regulated, data-heavy jobs.

Open to senior product design roles across Europe.
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Most recently I spent three and a half years at the Science Based Targets initiative, where I was the sole designer on the flow companies use to submit their climate targets for review. Before that, Universal Investment and Deveote. Most of my projects start the same way: the brief describes a symptom, and research finds the actual problem.

Selected work Four case studies

The redesigned target validation flow at the document upload step, with a step list on the left and save progress in the footer.

Target Validation Platform

Science Based Targets initiative
Enterprise web, sole designer on the flow

Two in three people who started the submission gave up. The brief assumed the data was too hard. Interviews said people were losing their place in a task that takes several sittings. A policy audit cut the flow from 14 steps to 6, and I added saving and visible progress.

67% to 18%Abandon rate. Production analytics, quarter before and after.

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Two Renuir screens: a match with its confidence level, and the private chat between finder and owner.

Renuir

Lost and found for Europe
iOS and Android, founder and lead designer

Reporting a lost item is easy. Proving it is yours to a stranger, then meeting them, is not. Six weeks of discovery and 16 interviews came before the first screen, and the 47 screens that followed are built around trust between strangers.

94%Report task completion in an unmoderated prototype test. SUS 84 in the moderated round.

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Overview of the component library: buttons, colour tokens, type scale, inputs, status tags and a card.

Enterprise Design System

Science Based Targets initiative
System owner, tokens to governance

An audit of the product found fourteen button styles across three squads. I built and ran a system of more than 60 components, and found the blocker was never component quality. Office hours and migration guides moved adoption further than any library change.

14 to 4Button styles, after the interface audit. Three squads migrating from week 13.

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The Anstoss site: one app for the whole club, with a phone showing the club app.

Anstoss

My own product
Android and iOS, designed and built

An amateur football club runs on ten tools and one volunteer coach. Anstoss replaces them with one white-label app with views for coach, player, parent and admin. I designed it and took it to working builds myself.

10+ toolsReplaced by one app. In use, with the next test defined: is a club still running match day in it in week six.

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About

I do my best work where people read dense data, follow regulated steps, or make decisions that are costly to undo.

I start with research, then structure, then the interface, and I stay through the build. I write specifications engineers can work from, and I take my own designs to working builds so decisions get tested against real behaviour before they get expensive.

Before design I studied geology. Outside work I coach an amateur football team, which is where Anstoss came from.

Experience

  1. Founder and lead product designerRenuir
  2. Founder and product designerAnstoss
  3. Senior product designerScience Based Targets initiative
  4. Senior product designerUniversal Investment
  5. UX designerDeveote Technologies

From people I have worked with

“He combines a strong understanding of user needs with technical awareness and takes genuine ownership from problem definition through delivery.”
Adam ValoisHead of Technology, Science Based Targets initiative. I reported to Adam.
“A professional who stands out with his ability to translate intricate user and business needs into intuitive and meaningful designs.”
Oyindamola AkinleyeSenior Product Designer at Zalando. My mentor.
“He combines an innate understanding of user needs with business goals, creating intuitive and visually compelling designs.”
Stanley AguEntrepreneur and business architect. We worked together.

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Contact

Open to senior product design roles across Europe, remote or on site. I work in English, and in German at B2.

o.ajimati@yahoo.com

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