About Derick Okafor

About Derick Okafor: a front-end developer turned product designer in Lagos, Nigeria, with experience across fintech, travel tech, AI and health products. Available for freelance and contract work.

I started as a front-end web developer. When designing, I consider how something will be built, so the work is functional, modern and usable.

Experience

  • Design Lead, Travel technology company (Jan 2026 – Present), Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria
  • Senior Product Designer (UI/UX), Travel technology company (Jan 2025 – Jan 2026), Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria
  • Senior UI/UX Designer, Buildas (Dec 2024 – Aug 2025), Singapore
  • Lead Product Designer, ESOF (Sep 2023 – Dec 2024), Lagos State, Nigeria
  • UI/UX Designer, Fintech company (Jul 2024 – Nov 2024)
  • UI/UX Designer, Touchcore Africa (Jan 2023 – Sep 2024), Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria
  • UI Designer and Front-End Developer, LiveFPL (Feb 2022 – Jun 2022), Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  • Junior UI/UX Designer, Enlighture Technology (Mar 2020 – Jan 2022), Lagos State, Nigeria

Skills

  • User interface design (UI)
  • User experience design (UX)
  • Responsive web and mobile design
  • Prototyping
  • Wireframing
  • Flow Diagrams, Storyboards, Site Maps
  • Prompt Engineer
  • UI Optimization
  • AI Frontend
  • Animated Gif Creation
  • Vibe Coding
  • Framer
  • Webflow
  • WordPress
  • AI Prompt Design
  • HTML, CSS, SCSS, and JavaScript programming
  • Web development frameworks and libraries (Bootstrap, Tailwind)

Education

Covenant University - Bachelor of Engineering, Information and Communication Engineering.

Available for freelance and contract work. derickokafor.do@gmail.com · WhatsApp · Dribbble · LinkedIn