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Designing complex products that feel simple.


Recent work

N° 01 / 05 2025 — 26
Maya Okafor · Stripe Resolved
Hey — can we reuse the segments from last week's launch for the new cohort?
Yes. I pulled them into the shared workspace and added a filter for verified merchants.
Perfect, thanks. Shipping tomorrow.
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Dialogue — a calmer inbox for customer teams
B2B SaaS · Inbox redesign · Lead designer
Workflow 0→1
N° 02 / 05 2024
9:41
Plan a transfer
$48,210.14
Vendors
32 active
Payroll
Fri, 28th
Card
•• 4421
Limits
$120k / mo
Review & send
9:41
Operating · USD
$48,210.14
Stripe payout+$3,420
Gusto · Payroll−$8,210
AWS · April−$612
Wire · Atelier 9−$2,000
Anchor — banking that thinks like the founder
0-to-1 · Mobile banking for small businesses · Lead designer
Mobile Fintech
N° 03 / 05 2023 — 24
Prism · v2.0 Aa Bb
Buttons Primary action Secondary Chips
DefaultTagFilter
// tokens
--color-ink#14110d
--color-paper#f6f3ec
--color-accent#1f7a4d
--radius-md12px
--space-416px
--font-serifNewsreader
Prism — one design system, three products
Design system · Tokens, components, governance
Systems Tokens
N° 04 / 05 2023
relay / dispatch / queue · Active shift
Today's queue · 142 loads
FilterExport+ Assign
LoadDriverOriginETAStatus
RL-9281J. TovarReno2h 14mOn time
RL-9276M. DiazStockton0h 38mOn time
RL-9272K. BellPhoenix5h 02mHolding
RL-9268S. ParkVegas1h 47m+18 min
RL-9261A. BrunoBoise3h 22mOn time
Relay — dispatch software for real dispatchers
Internal tool · CRM & queue ops for logistics teams
Complex UI Density
N° 05 / 05 2022
Lesson 06 · Composition
Which one keeps the eye moving across the page?
ACentered grid
BOff-axis weight
CRepeated motif
DFlat baseline
06 of 09Streak · 14 days
Kindling — a daily design school, ten minutes at a time
Consumer · Mobile learning app · Founding designer
Consumer 0→1

I'm Nina — product designer with six years across early-stage and growth-stage teams.

I do my best work where the problem looks tangled at first — ops tools, dense data, payments, anything where craft has to meet real constraints. I care about systems thinking, clear writing in the UI, and shipping things that hold up a year later.

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Reach out if you're building something and want a senior pair of senior eyes on it. I read everything that comes in.