Working for yourself means you can control your availability and also your income. — I have always known freelancing is all about flexibility. I’ve always wanted to get work done in a timely fashion. Who wants a disorganized life? No one! These are the things I have learnt as a freelancer so far: You learn every aspect of running a business. …

It was a chilly morning, I had just slept 4 hours after a night’s coding session. I received a Slack message from the client. He is pissed!!! The project pace was the issue. The main concern was they needed provision for actual dates along with what the client should expect…

Use Sign Up Options — The Challenge Brief: Redesign a part of the experience. Duration: 2 days (Jan 2017). My role: User Research and Interaction Designer. Tools: Sketch, Adobe Experience Design. Design Process: Redesigned an experience. Summary Desired Outcomes: Redesign an experience in the PesaPal that makes it easier for people to sign up. Deliver wireframes of redesigned experience. Process:

You have a short time to make a good impression when a decision-maker is looking at your LinkedIn profile. — Eye-tracking technology used by TheLadders revealed that recruiters spend an average of 19 percent of their time on your LinkedIn profile simply viewing your picture. The research also revealed that just like resumes, weak organization, and scannability within a LinkedIn profile negatively impacted the recruiter’s ability to “process the profile”.

Wanted to say on Twitter OR Medium but… — I was seeking great insights, well-researched articles and some inspiration in the realm of UX, so I headed to Twitter and Medium to follow these industry’s UX-centric biggest names from Kenya. …

Power has shifted from employer to employee — First off, this is from a recruitment and retention perspective with understanding that millennials are now the driving force within the global economy and they expect more transparency, more honesty, and a more personal approach. Employees are the biggest risk vs Employees are the biggest asset If you treat your employees…

Press Cancel to Send?? — What’s the problem? Poor design! It creates friction. The less the design aligns with what the user is trying to accomplish, the more friction increases. Whenever friction occurs, someone becomes frustrated. The user ,may feel the frustration because they can’t complete their task. Take Sally, for instance. She is a 52-year-old grandmother, married to a…

Sublime Text Snippets — Anybody who’s been a developer/designer for long enough has been productive using code snippets. So how do we do we become ninjas?? We will accomplish this by creating snippets in Sublime Text. Now a snippet in Sublime Text is a block of code that is injected into your working document…