Designing brands,building products,shipping both.

I'm Isaiah — a senior product designer and UIUX engineer in Lagos. Eight years crafting brand identities that earn trust and designing productspeople use — for clients, and for things I've built myself.

Every product starts as a name someone is nervous about.

Half my practice is brand. Before a product has screens, it needs a mark, a voice, and a reason to be taken seriously. I've designed identities for startups, fintechs, health platforms, and consumer apps — some of them my own — across Lagos and beyond.

40+Brand systems designed
SpottaClient
MeerooFounder
SutiClient
CleancutClient
eighteen24Client
SmoodeClient
SportyrClient
NoilioClient

I'm Isaiah — a product designer and UI/UX engineer in Lagos. I started in graphic design and kept following the work outward: from wordmarks and identity systems to the interfaces and flows behind them.

My practice sits between brand and product. I don't treat them as separate tracks — they're the same promise at different scales. A logo and an onboarding flow should feel like they came from the same mind.

I've led product work for Cellulant, Orbis, and Cleancut, and built my own — Noilio and Meeroo— where I've owned brand, product, and everything in between.

Currently
  • Shopify Experience Developer · AshcorpFeb 2025 —
  • Founder · Noilio, MeerooOngoing
Ex
  • Product Designer · Amplify Africa'23–'25
  • UI/UX Team Lead · Finchglow Holdings (short stint)Mar–May '24
  • Founder · Karier Express'21–'23
  • Senior Creative Designer · Amplify Africa'22–'24
  • Brand Designer · Cellulant'20–'22
  • Product Designer · CellulantDec '22 – Jan '24
  • Graphic Designer · Amplify Africa'18–'22
  • Graphic designer · Future Wox'19–'20
  • Graphic designer · DrugIT'20–'21
  • Social Media Manager · Winkleaf'16–'17
Disciplines
  • Product & UX DesignCore
  • Brand IdentityCore
  • Front-end EngineeringHybrid

Three things I believe, loudly, after eight years of shipping.

01
Strategy first, screens last

Pretty interfaces solving the wrong problem are a very efficient way to waste everyone's time. I start with the business, the user, and the constraints — then I open Figma.

02
Brand and product are one conversation

The logo and the onboarding flow are making the same promise. I design both — because handing one off to someone who doesn't care about the other is how products end up looking disassembled.

03
Ship the thing

The best design doc in the world is worth less than a mediocre feature in production. I design for decisions and hand off work that engineers actually want to build.

Isaiah has the rare ability to zoom from brand strategy to pixel in the same meeting — and make both feel like the obvious answer.

VP Product · Previous Collaborator
Contact — Let's make something

Got an interestingproblem? I'd like to hear about it.

bdisaiah@gmail.com
Location

Lagos, Nigeria

WAT · UTC +1

Status

Taking select projects