Chimmy Kalu

Product experience designer | Design Strategy & Leadership | 2X LinkedIn course creator, speaker, and design mentor

United Kingdom
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Hi, I'm Chimmy - a designer who creates digital products people want, use and recommend.

I started my career as a consultant software engineer, then switched to design almost a decade ago. I'm the pragmatic designer, delivering impact efficiently by empowering engineers to iterate quickly.

As a designer, I wear two hats. By day, I work at Triptease - delivering scalable B2B products that grow hoteliers' share of direct revenue. And the rest of the time, I do selective freelance work with founders, startups and organisations to identify what MVP they should ship.

I'm passionate about helping designers and giving back to the design community. I write the love+design newsletter to share design observations, have given many UX podcast interviews and have written two LinkedIn learning courses (Sketch Essentials and Practical Accessibility). I also speak at conferences and meetups. My favourite talks have been "Accessibility is a dirty word" | AIGA design conference 2019 and "How to build inclusive products" | Women driven development conference in 2020.

It doesn't stop with corporations. I also help designers hone their craft - offering 1:1 and group mentoring sessions on how to make accessibility part of the design process, how to improve your process and deliverables, and how to be more strategic/product-y. I also help non-designers transition into design - through mentoring or via the UX fundamentals workshops I facilitate via the School of UX.

One of the attendees of a session on Wireframing in XD said this about me: "I loved it! Chimmy was awesome!! I have done a few wireframe projects, because my boss asked me to, and I sort of had to just teach myself, through adobe tutorials. Today’s class blew those away. Like with Chimmy, everything made sense, plus I learned a lot more stuff. I really enjoyed it. Also, she had some amazing tricks to share. I haven’t taken advantage of the actual power of XD before."

Another person described the Practical accessibility course as "the best course I've found on how designers can influence accessibility in UX."

Ready to connect? Send me a message here, book a 1:1 with me via superpeer.com/chimmy or email me at chimmy@beepux.com.

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  • GAAD 2024
    May 16, 2024

    GAAD 2024

    A few weeks ago a colleague broke her ankle in two places and had to have surgery. I didn’t speak to her for at least a…

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Experience

  • Triptease

    Triptease

    4 years 5 months

    • Triptease Graphic

      Staff Product Designer

      Triptease

      - Present 2 years 8 months

    • Triptease Graphic

      Senior Product Designer

      Triptease

      - 1 year 11 months

      London

  • Chief Design Officer

    Lovable Studio

    - Present 4 years 7 months

  • WorldRemit Graphic

    Senior Product Designer

    WorldRemit

    - 1 year 9 months

    London, United Kingdom

    Worked on reducing the number of 'contacts per transaction' and automating internal processes.

  • Condé Nast International Graphic

    Senior UX Designer

    Condé Nast International

    - 1 year 11 months

    Working on unifying the editorial and consumer experiences across 29 brands, 8 languages and 64 websites within 11 countries.

    Creating wireframes, mockups and prototypes to enable research into the various brand identities, usability, content types, editorial workflows and more.

    Accessibility champion working on creating processes for building accessible components.

    Facilitating workshops, moderating user research and executing on the desire to know more about our…

    Working on unifying the editorial and consumer experiences across 29 brands, 8 languages and 64 websites within 11 countries.

    Creating wireframes, mockups and prototypes to enable research into the various brand identities, usability, content types, editorial workflows and more.

    Accessibility champion working on creating processes for building accessible components.

    Facilitating workshops, moderating user research and executing on the desire to know more about our disparate digital presentations of the various brands in our portfolio.

  • UX designer and researcher

    New Look Retailers Ltd

    - 11 months

    London, United Kingdom

    Providing research and design expertise on digital and e-commerce projects across Web, mobile Web and Mobile app.

    - Nominal head of user research providing guidance and leadership on qualitative and quantitative studies.
    - UX champion within project teams explaining design rationale to BAs, product owners, developers and copy writers.
    - Inspire and encourage digital colleagues to create coherent user experiences across multiple screens
    - Lead the development of visual and…

    Providing research and design expertise on digital and e-commerce projects across Web, mobile Web and Mobile app.

    - Nominal head of user research providing guidance and leadership on qualitative and quantitative studies.
    - UX champion within project teams explaining design rationale to BAs, product owners, developers and copy writers.
    - Inspire and encourage digital colleagues to create coherent user experiences across multiple screens
    - Lead the development of visual and interaction elements of user experiences, refining them towards a polished design considering typography, iconography, layout and brand identity along the way.
    - Guide the work of external agencies to learn new things, see new perspectives and create new ideas
    - Decide on appropriate research methods to elicit real user needs and test products that meet these.

  • British Airways Graphic

    User Experience Designer

    British Airways

    - 1 year 10 months

    Role entails managing stakeholder expectations, user research via competitor analysis, creating/using personas, user flows, design via use of wireframes and prototypes as well as coordinating usability testing.

  • UI/UX Specialist

    Kanga Health

    - 7 months

    Usability and experience design specialist working with a variety of platforms and tools

  • Accenture Technology Solutions

    Accenture Technology Solutions

    6 years 2 months

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