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Product & Growth Design partner for Forward-Thinking Tech Teams.

I help startups and established tech companies build digital products that inspire trust and drive measurable results.

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Four mobile app screens showing payment confirmation, biometric login with face ID, a dashboard with collections and transactions, and customer insights with transaction count chart.
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How Design Partnership works

Over the years, I’ve seen how teams approach product design some rely on large agencies, others on individual freelancers and both can come with trade-offs. Agencies often move slower, come with heavy retainers, and sometimes lose the personal touch. Freelancers, on the other hand, can be highly skilled but are often stretched thin across strategy, research, and execution.

My approach bridges that gap. I work like a strategic partner, combining the structure and depth of an agency with the flexibility and focus of an in-house designer. Whether we’re defining a product vision, building a design system, or improving conversion through experience design, my goal is simple: to create clarity, deliver measurable results, and make the process collaborative, efficient, and surprisingly enjoyable.

Freelancers
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A tactical pair of hands. Great for quick tasks, but often lacks the strategic depth or long-term product vision your brand needs to scale.
Design Partnership
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I work as an embedded member of your team. You get the strategic expertise of a Creative Director and the execution of a Senior Lead, without the agency overhead.
Agency
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High retainers and rotating teams. You often pay for project managers and office overhead rather than the direct expertise of the person actually doing the work.
"Desmond doesn't just push pixels; he thinks like a product owner. He helped us bridge the gap between our business goals and what our users actually needed. Working with him felt like having an extra co-founder on the team."
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Tunde Adeniran
Co-founder & CPO, Lerno
"Desmond doesn't just deliver designs; he delivers solutions. He took our complex dashboard and turned it into a seamless experience that our users actually enjoy using."
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Oyinlola Jimoh
Product Manager, Hydrogen
"The design system Desmond built for us (SANDS) completely transformed how our engineering team works. We went from constant back-and-forth to a seamless, component-based workflow that saved us weeks of development time."
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Kazeem Olaonipekun
Engineering Lead, Sabi
"Desmond doesn't just push pixels; he thinks like a product owner. He helped us bridge the gap between our business goals and what our users actually needed. Working with him felt like having an extra co-founder on the team."
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Tunde Adeniran
Co-founder & CPO, Lerno
"Desmond doesn't just deliver designs; he delivers solutions. He took our complex dashboard and turned it into a seamless experience that our users actually enjoy using."
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Oyinlola Jimoh
Product Manager, Hydrogen
"The design system Desmond built for us (SANDS) completely transformed how our engineering team works. We went from constant back-and-forth to a seamless, component-based workflow that saved us weeks of development time."
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Kazeem Olaonipekun
Engineering Lead, Sabi
"Desmond doesn't just push pixels; he thinks like a product owner. He helped us bridge the gap between our business goals and what our users actually needed. Working with him felt like having an extra co-founder on the team."
Smiling man with short hair wearing a black t-shirt against a neutral background.
Tunde Adeniran
Co-founder & CPO, Lerno
"Desmond doesn't just deliver designs; he delivers solutions. He took our complex dashboard and turned it into a seamless experience that our users actually enjoy using."
Smiling woman with braided hair wearing striped shirt and floral earrings.
Oyinlola Jimoh
Product Manager, Hydrogen
"The design system Desmond built for us (SANDS) completely transformed how our engineering team works. We went from constant back-and-forth to a seamless, component-based workflow that saved us weeks of development time."
Avatar of a person with glasses, a black beanie, braided hair, a beard, and wearing a checkered shirt with a dark vest.
Kazeem Olaonipekun
Engineering Lead, Sabi
"Desmond doesn't just push pixels; he thinks like a product owner. He helped us bridge the gap between our business goals and what our users actually needed. Working with him felt like having an extra co-founder on the team."
Tunde Adeniran
Co-founder & CPO, Lerno
"Desmond doesn't just deliver designs; he delivers solutions. He took our complex dashboard and turned it into a seamless experience that our users actually enjoy using."
Oyinlola Jimoh
Product Manager, Hydrogen
"The design system Desmond built for us (SANDS) completely transformed how our engineering team works. We went from constant back-and-forth to a seamless, component-based workflow that saved us weeks of development time."
Kazeem Olaonipekun
Engineering Lead, Sabi