Ugo Ifezue

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Product Design Lead at Nestcoin

October 2021 - March 2025

  • Spearheaded the end-to-end design for a Coinbase Wallet integration, enabling payments across 20 global markets. 

  • Redesigned KYC flows to balance compliance and user convenience, by implementing progressive tiers that improved throughput by 85% without sacrificing onboarding speed. 

  • Built and launched a flagship B2B trading platform for high-value merchants processing $5M+ in monthly escrow transactions. 

  • Created and scaled a token-based design system (180+ components), reducing handoff friction and cross-team queries by 40%, while accelerating design-to-dev cycle time by 30%. 

  • Owned user research and product delivery for payout flow optimization, conducted 100+ interviews, surfaced trust blockers, and launched FX rate-locks that reduced cancellations by 28% and improved transaction confidence in new markets. 

  • Mentored 8 designers across three continents, establishing design critique rituals and career progression frameworks. 

Design Lead at Bundle

August 2019 - September 2021

  • Orchestrated end-to-end UX and UI for a P2P crypto wallet, achieving 650,000+ users and $56M monthly volume. 

  • Introduced an educational UX pattern that improved product engagement and retention by 30%. 

  • Developed a component-based library that reduced engineering rework by 25% and ensured UI consistency across web and mobile. 

  • Drove referral onboarding experiments with Growth PMs, using funnel analysis and A/B tests to identify high-drop segments, resulting in a 15% uplift in conversions and multiple follow-on test cycles. 

  • Partnered with marketing to develop a tiered launch campaign in two markets, which drove a 22% lift in new-market transactions in the first month. 

Senior Product Designer at Toptal

September 2017 - August 2019

  • Designed a spatial UI system for AR surgical training (HoloLens), solving gesture latency and feedback clarity issues, and reduced onboarding time by 22% in early trials. 

  • Crafted a virtual property exploration tool that drove an 18% rise in qualified real estate inquiries over three months. 

  • Led remote usability studies and synthesized insights to refine interaction patterns and minimize user errors. 

Senior Product Designer at Heftybyte Inc.

April 2017 - May 2018

  • Shipped a mobile Ethereum wallet, securing $7M in ICO funding and onboarding 10,000+ early adopters. 

  • Redesigned ride-sharing flows for a NYC transit app, boosting user task success rates by 22% through iterative prototyping. 

  • Collaborated with users through prototype testing and remote surveys to refine ride-booking flows 

Product Designer at Intelia.io

October 2016 - April 2017

  • Conceptualized a visual surgical-planning tool, reducing consult time by 15% and enhancing decision confidence for clinicians. 

  • Launched a hospital-match platform that improved placement efficiency by 30%, informed by contextual user interviews. 

  • Conducted contextual interviews with clinicians and students to map decision paths and build for clarity. 

Product Designer & Design Engineer at VConnect

April 2013 - March 2016

  • Redesigned mobile UX for 4M+ SMB vendors, improving conversion rates by 20%. 

  • Engineered a lightweight, bandwidth-aware storefront using adaptive content delivery, co-developed with Facebook’s connectivity team and scaled to 200K+ monthly views in low-resource environments.