About me
Clarity before
commitment
Skills
Interaction design
Visual design
Design systems
Product strategy
Product growth
Prototyping
Usability research
Accessibility
Collaboration
Sprints and workshops
USSD, SMS and IVR flows
Tools
Pencil and paper
Figma
Sketch
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Technology
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
React
Next.js
NestJS
PostgreSQL
Lawrence Chege
- Experience
- 9 yrs
I’m a product designer with nine years in UX and product design and sixteen years in digital technology. I started as a programmer in 2010 and still write production code in Next.js, NestJS and PostgreSQL.
I translate messy business requirements into interfaces that make sense. Working directly with software engineers and cross-functional teams, I turn complex challenges into solutions that feel obvious once they exist.
My expertise covers UX strategy, user research, interaction design, and prototyping.
Currently based in Nairobi, Kenya, I’m looking for opportunities where I can keep solving complex problems and building products that matter to the people who use them.
How I work
Research before the spec is fixed
I start by looking at what already exists: comparable products, competitors, anything solving a near-enough problem, and hold it against what stakeholders have asked for. That comparison usually changes the requirements, so it happens before the specification is written, not after.
Rough sketches, with engineers in the room
The first drawings are by hand and deliberately unfinished. I take them to front-end and back-end engineers to establish feasibility and technical direction while the work is still cheap to throw away. A constraint found at this stage costs a sketch. Found at build, it costs a sprint.
Low fidelity for agreement, high fidelity for build
Structure gets signed off in low fidelity, before any brand is applied. High fidelity comes after, and where the work needs a design system, that comes before the screens rather than being reverse-engineered out of them.
Handover is part of the design
Final files in Figma or PDF, with specs, a prototype and tokens. I stay close to engineering through implementation, because the design is not done when it is delivered. It is done when it is built.