# Wisdom Elendu

> Senior Product Designer | Enabling companies to design data-driven digital products powered by blockchain technology and AI to serve customers better. | Speaker

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/wisdomelendu

Hi there! 🙂

Welcome to Wisdom Elendu's profile.

Wisdom is a digital product designer who enjoys designing engaging and accessible digital experiences that leave a positive impact on people, the environment, and society. He is passionate about open-source blockchain technology and spends his free time with a community of designers creating the Bitcoin Design Guide where he (designed and) maintains the Android version of the Bitcoin Design UI Kit; he's also with the open-source design team at Fedimint - an open-source protocol and technology stack which makes it easier to deploy and manage (Bitcoin) community custody solutions.

More at: https://www.bitcoinuikit.com/info  ||  https://fedimint.org/

To Wisdom, design is a problem-solving activity that requires research, ideation, and iteration; his design practice combines design thinking, user research, and user experience strategy, all with a relentless focus on the user. Yes, the User/Customer/Client!

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Visit his portfolio: https://wisdomelendu.netlify.app/

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Skills: User Research, Design Thinking, UX and UI Design, Figma, UX research, Visual design, Typography, Wireframing, Mockups Creation, Information Architecture, and Design Systems Creation & Implementation.

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Design and Productivity Tools: Figma, Sketch, Jira, Adobe XD, Protopie, Framer, Maze, Confluence, Notion, FigJam.

On the side of his design work, Wisdom volunteers for GOs (and NGOs) and also teaches design to high-school kids.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ EMTECH
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States

### Product Designer @ EMTECH
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Incorporated intuitive process flow diagrams, and Information Architecture, to improve users' (FSPs & Central Banks) understanding of the EMTECH sandbox environment; enhanced the navigational system for seamless accessibility to pertinent tools allowing for quick user task accomplishment; created and designed the new website concept (see here: https://www.emtech.com/).

### Design School Instructor @ Utiva
Jan 2022 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom

### Senior Product Designer @ Bitcoin Design Foundation
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
At the Bitcoin Design Foundation, our mission remains unchanged: to support people and initiatives that make bitcoin more accessible and user-friendly for everyone.

I led the end-to-end design of a comprehensive UI kit tailored specifically for building Bitcoin and Lightning wallets on Android. The goal was to create a flexible and scalable resource that empowers designers, developers, and product teams to kickstart design projects within the Bitcoin ecosystem—whether for learning, prototyping, conceptual exploration, or production-ready applications.

### Product Designer @ Fonoster, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | North Carolina, United States
Fonoster is an organisation focused on developing an open-source replacement for Twilio's Elastic SIP Trunking, Programmable Voice, Dialogflow Connector, and Streams.

### Product Designer @ Dev and Design
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Product Designer @ ZPLAY
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Beijing, China
With a global team, and as a leading global mobile game publisher for over 10 years, ZPLAY has cooperated with developers, designers & studios from over 20 countries. Zplay publishes casual and hyper-casual games with more than 500M downloads worldwide.

In this role, I:

1. Designed the Apple and Huawei watch versions of an already existing mobile game app, allowing for a seamless connection between the mobile app and the various watch types.
2. Improved user experience on the Apple watch design by 50% due to increased accuracy of tap recognition and faster loading times.
3. Increased the marketability of the Huawei watch design by redesigning the game’s user interface to be more in line with Huawei’s design philosophy.
4. Designed a new gaming experience that was well-received by the test audience, leading to a 100% increase in downloads from the previous version.

### Product Designer @ Deezey Digital
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Lagos, Nigeria
In this role, I:

1. Collaborated on designing web and mobile apps, and websites for multiple clients.
2. Designed web dashboards for both mobile and desktop experiences.
3. Developed information architectures for several firms.
4. Carried out responsive web design, graphic design, and branding services.
4. Reviewed, redesigned, and refactored user interfaces for existing products across different companies' digital channels.
5. Created adaptable design systems for several companies.
6. Increased the company’s revenue by creating and presenting designs to potential clients.

### Graphic Designer @ Deezey Digital
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
In this role, I:

1. Created visual materials for social media and presentation slides.
2. Reviewed graphic designs for errors before they were printed or published
3. Created brand and marketing materials to increase social media presence
4. Prepared rough drafts and presented ideas for design creation
5. Scheduled projects and defined some budget constraints

### Junior Communications Designer @ Socialander
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Lagos, Nigeria
In this role, I:

1. Helped in making design choices around fonts, and colors for design contents, designing and developing layouts, digital ads, and on-site promotional materials (like banners, printed collateral, etc.);
2. Conceptualized, designed, and implemented creative graphic design content, both print and digital, on time and within budget, communicating the reasons behind design choices

### Teacher @ Supreme Light Academy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Lagos, Nigeria
From March to September 2014, I periodically taught Mathematics at the prestigious Supreme Light Academy. I was full-time at some point - but for the most part, I was a freelance STEM instructor.


## Education
### Executive Education - Design Thinking: from Insights to Viability
Stanford University Graduate School of Business

### Bachelor of Engineering - B.Eng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Federal University of Technology Owerri Nigeria


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wisdom-elendu

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Last updated: 2026-03-29