# Adebimpe Adebowale > Product Designer | Building intelligent systems at the intersection of design, code & AI Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/adebimpe Impact-driven Product Designer with over 8 years shaping data-driven products across finance, private markets, and lifestyle technology. Led design strategy for platforms managing over $3.5B in assets and products used by 100,000+ businesses worldwide. Experienced in transforming complex systems into cohesive, scalable experiences that advance business goals and strengthen user trust. Skilled in aligning design and engineering, shaping product vision, and building design systems that enable teams to move faster with clarity and consistency. With a background in front-end development, I bridge design and technology to build solutions that scale. Recently, my work has focused on integrating AI-assisted design and prototyping into product workflow, exploring how human-centered AI can improve iteration speed, decision quality, and the overall design process. I’ve contributed to impactful projects with AKQA × IBM, AKQA × Mayo Clinic, BMW Performance Centre, Runbuggy, Urbansitter, Indicina, and Bumpa, designing across industries while maintaining a consistent focus on usability, accessibility, and clarity. I hold a Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction Design (Distinction) from the University of Leicester and mentor early-career designers through Designlab, helping them grow their UX craft and confidence. You can reach me at hi@adeadebimpe.com or via DM, always open to conversations around design, design engineering, and the future of human-computer interaction. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Raft Jan 2026 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom ### Lead Product Designer @ Vega Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | London Area, United Kingdom - Led the product design strategy and launch of Vega’s altOS dashboard, the core platform managing $3.5B+ in assets and unifying fragmented fund data into a real-time operating system for investors, fund managers, and administrators. - Defined the product design vision and systems architecture, ensuring scalability across multi-tenant clients and accelerating product delivery by 40% - Scaled the Vega Design System, aligning design, engineering, and brand under a single visual and interaction framework - Partnered with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmap priorities, improve investor transparency, and strengthen client trust - Influenced long-term platform strategy, positioning Vega as an industry-ready operating system for alternative assets and private markets - Implemented AI-assisted design and prototyping practices that accelerated iteration speed and improved product validation across design, product, and engineering teams. ### Senior Product Designer @ XBTO Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | London Area, United Kingdom - Led the UX/UI strategy and designed responsive dashboards with advanced data visualization tools, enabling 10,000+ institutional investors to seamlessly manage over $100B in crypto, resulting in a 25% increase in user retention. - Spearheaded the design and development of a comprehensive design system, enabling a 40% increase in developer efficiency and reducing design inconsistencies by 60%. - Collaborating cross-functionally with engineers, designers, and product managers to define product roadmaps, resulting in an improved feature delivery timeline by 35%. - Conducted extensive user research and usability testing, refining core investment workflows, leading to a 20% reduction in customer support queries related to platform navigation and investment processes. ### Design Mentor @ Designlab Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 - Mentored over 20 amazing designers to kickstart design careers through check-ins, one on one video calls, and weekly assignment reviews. ### Senior Product Designer @ RunBuggy Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ashburn, Virginia, United States - Led the design and development of an internal task management platform for the customer success team, optimizing workflows for 11,000+ transport orders per month and increasing operational efficiency by 90%. - Defined and refined product scope and feature requirements, collaborating closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to align the platform with business objectives. - Designed and implemented the company's design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all digital touchpoints. - Conducted usability testing and iterative design improvements, significantly improving user adoption and reducing task completion time. ### Lead Product Designer @ Bumpa Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Lagos, Nigeria - Redesigned Bumpa’s business management platform, helping user adoption grow from 1,000 to 75,000+ in one year while driving a 290% increase in active users and 375% growth in GMV - Reimagined the checkout and order management experience, improving usability and flow, which scaled monthly completed orders from 283 to over 38,000 - Created scalable design systems and interaction patterns that unified merchant tools across inventory, sales, and analytics dashboards - Collaborated with product owners and engineers to translate merchant insights into product improvements that boosted engagement and conversion across mobile and web ### Lead Product Designer @ Indicina Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Lagos, Nigeria - Led the research and design of critical features such as Loan Products, Loan Rules, Approval Workflow, Bank Statement Analysis, and Account Management in the Merchant Portal, enabling the processing of over ₦3,000,000,000 in loans, increasing merchants onboarded by over 100% and improved technical team efficiency by 65%. - Collaborated with the product, engineering, and customer success team to define the product strategy. - Constantly interviewed merchants and validated product design ideas, in collaboration with the customer success team. - Improved the design of Originate customer portals reducing the bounce rate of loan applications on the merchant's customer portals by more than 30%. - Unified product tone and language, by setting up a new brand design system with a design agency that helped improve development speed, and created design consistency. - Managed the design team and maintained the career trajectory of direct reports, providing a safe and collaborative environment. ### User Interface Engineer @ Maxiom Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ashburn, Virginia, United States - Worked on creating a cross-browser, IE 11 compatible, 3 in 1 marketing website for BMW Performance center building it from the ground up using React using HTML, CSS, and Gatsby JS (https://bmwperformancecenter.com) with an average of >52,000 monthly visitors. - Also built an admin portal for management using Node JS, MONGO DB, and Express JS. ### Product Designer @ Guided Labs, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | St. Louis, MO - Led the end-to-end design process across 3 cross-functional projects to create and execute wireframes, information architecture, user flow, user interface, and visual design for complex software. - Created the design for Hala-tech, a device procurement product, incorporating findings from user research and creating user flows and design specs. - Liaised directly with clients to iterate designs based on usability testing and business requirements, ensuring designs were consistent with brand guidelines and technology constraints. - Collaborated with the product managers to define project scopes, design timelines, and milestones. ### Product Designer @ Joluud (MEST '17) Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Accra, Ghana - Worked as the sole designer and front-end developer on the product, a facility management software serving over 500 facilities. - Conducted user research and usability testing and created wireframes and high-fidelity mockups for the web application. - Built out the pages based on the approved design using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. ### Web Designer / UI Engineer @ Cregital Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Lagos, Nigeria - Collaborated with the design and development teams to work on projects across various sectors, in-house and external projects. - Maintained graphics standards, branding, and responsive design throughout the development of clients' projects. - Also provided website maintenance, enhancements, and troubleshooting of errors on webpages with other developers. ### UI Engineering Intern @ Cregital Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Lagos, Nigeria - Assisted in building modular parts of websites for clients using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. - Also, assisted in fixing mobile responsiveness for websites across all devices using CSS. - Built websites for clients using WordPress and provided website maintenance. ## Education ### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction University of Leicester ### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Obafemi Awolowo University ### Certificate in IT BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adeadebimpe - Portfolio: https://adeadebimpe.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/adebimpe JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adebimpe/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31