Biography
Karena Iyakoregha is a creative designer focused on creating intuitive user experiences, visually appealing interfaces, and unique product positioning, with a 5-year track record of solving complex challenges that meet desired goals.
She integrates business strategy, customer feedback, AI/ML insights, and research in every design decision, utilizing design and animation tools like Figma, FigJam, Miro, Framer, Jitter, and Phase to create intuitive user interfaces and superb user experiences (UX).
Karena is skilled in designing data-driven solutions for both end-to-end design processes and small incremental improvements to products. She has mastered diverse problem-solving frameworks such as Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, and hypothesis-based frameworks.
Nigeria
Member since Apr 2020
Skills
Top Specialties
Mobile Design
UI / Visual Design
UX Design / Research
Work History
Senior Product Designer (contract) at Moni Africa 2022–2022
Senior product designer at Invygo 2022–2023
Senior Prodcut Designer at Andela 2022–Present
Product Designer at Kuda 2021–2021
Product design lead - Web at Bundle Africa (subsidiary of Binance) 2021–2022
UI/UX Designer at Punterclash 2019–2020
Education
User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide, Interactive Design Foundation 2021
Foundation of User experience, Google Professional certificate 2022
Introduction to Generative AI, Google Cloud 2024
Seeking
Freelance or contract opportunities
Full-time opportunities
