No funding. No full-time team. Just obsession and a story about shipping a letter-making tool in a digital world

Feyi Sonubi has been Cowrywise since 2017. Since then, He has led the design team responsible for upholding one of the most consistent and recognisable brand experiences out of Nigeria, helping over 1M customers invest safely. In this post, I share Feyi’s responses to my many questions on how he shaped design at Cowrywise + the story behind their iconic brandSubscribeIntroFun fact: Feyi joined Cowrywise as a Front-end engineer. At the time, there were no designers on the team. Because he coul...

Kachi joined Paystack in 2017. Funny story, his interview day was also his first day of work there. He arrived before Ope (Head of Design) and waited for him to get to the office. When Ope got in, he asked Kachi if he had come with his laptop, introduced him to everybody at the office, and assigned him his first tasks—no contract, no interview, just straight to work. Today, 7 years later Kachi is now a Product Design Lead at Paystack where he has contributed to and builtPaystack Checkout - in...

Chisa Joboson is one of the first Nigerian type designers to be published on Google Fonts. Having crossed 100k downloads, Ojuju of Udi Foundry is now...

To Makers,

To the ones who dance like no one’s watching. We go too long without telling our stories. Stories of how we made something great, somethi...