Figma Africa Nairobi & NDC are partnering for the “Design for Social Impact” event

[Event] Designing for Social Impact

Kipkorir Arap Kirui
Nairobi Design Community (NDC)
2 min readSep 26, 2018

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Figma Africa Nairobi in partnership with Nairobi Design Community (NDC) invites designers, developers, product managers and startup founders for Figma Africa meetup, Nairobi edition, themed ‘Designing for socio-economic impact’. The event will be on 2nd October between 6 pm and 8 pm at Metta, 14 Riverside Drive Belgravia Building, Nairobi.

To reserve your spot, please RSVP on our Meetup.com page.

We have an exciting line-up of topics & activities to empower us with design-thinking skills, UI/UX design education, and networking. We shall also learn how to collaboratively design products using Figma.

On the programme we have:
*Kennedy Kirui, CEO Tanasuk Africa, speaking about why you should consider a career in product management.
*Dennis Muthuri, Lead Designer iHub Software Consulting, taking us through an iTax re-design they worked on recently
*Allan Minani, CEO portable voices, taking us through how design thinking and application of design principles influence product at portable voices.
*Isaiah Wakoli, an exemplary art director https://www.instagram.com/iwakoli/guides us through his design process for his afro-futurist & cosmic style.
*A walk-through of the Figma tool by Njiiri and Lavet, Figma ambassadors, as well as sharing design education resources.
*A mingling session with our vibrant network of invitees :)

Don’t forget only limited tickets are available. RSVP here.

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Kipkorir Arap Kirui
Nairobi Design Community (NDC)

Ex-child, Reluctant adult, Experience Designer, UX Researcher, Design Facilitator, Senior Product Manager, Co-founder Made by People, Product at Microsoft