Resume

I am a User Interface Engineer with a passion for design systems, accessibility, and product design. Also, the creator of Onyx UI a Webflow & Framer component library that helps designers create accessible websites and apps with speed.

Projects

Onyx UI (alpha)

May 2022 ~

Co-creator, Designer & Developer

My primary focus these days is Onyx UI — a component library to create accessible websites blazingly fast ⚡️.

Experience

Orchid Studio

Oct 2021 - Present » Fulltime — Remote

UI Designer & Developer

I joined the company as designer #3, collaborating with the team also leading the frontend development for SaaS web apps for startups and scale-ups, refining components and design systems for a wide range of clients and internal projects.

Cabgo SA

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021. » Contract — Remote

UI/UX Designer & Product Owner

Being the most seasoned member of the team, I served as the product owner while we developed the design system and switched to Figma as the primary design tool. Led the design for the e-hailing app v2 and lobbied for Agile Methodologies.

Wehost Africa

Oct 2018 - Dec 2021. » Freelance — Remote

UI/UX Designer & Developer

As the tech founding member I led the early design and development of a new cloud computing platform (FluirCloudTM & pynoviTM), working on core features to improve how developers and IT teams create and scale up virtual servers.

Quatrohaus

Jul 2020 - Aug 2020. » Contract — Harare, ZW

UI/UX Designer

I was the lead designer for Pesepay an upcoming payment gateway for Southern Africa, completing product redesign, overhauling the visual design for marketing and the product and other internal developer-related products like forums.

Nerx Agency

Jan 2018 - Sept 2018. » Fulltime — Norton, ZW

Web Designer & Developer

Joined the team as a junior working side by side with designers and developers, mainly working on quality assurance, testing designing, support and maintenance work for graphics, websites and hosting clients.

Expertise

Product Design
Interaction Design
Frontend Development
Motion Graphics
Design Systems
Accessibility
User Research
Usability Testing

Education

R&Y Creative School of Business

Feb 2023 - 2027 BA. in Visual Communication

Achievements

AWS

— Scheduled Exams**

Webflow

— Certified Webflow Developer

One Money

— (Payment Gateway) Hackathon Winner

Achievements

Figma & Sketch

Webflow

WordPress / Elementor

Framer & Motion

Zeplin

Javascript / TypeScript

Adobe Creative Cloud

Protopie

Atlassian Suite

Supabase / Firebase

Git & Github

Greensock (GSAP)

VueJS(NuxtJS)

TailwindCSS

ReactJS(Next.js)

Resume

I am a User Interface Engineer with a passion for design systems, accessibility, and product design. Also, the creator of Onyx UI a Webflow & Framer component library that helps designers create accessible websites and apps with speed.

Projects

Onyx UI (alpha)

May 2022 ~

Co-creator, Designer & Developer

My primary focus these days is Onyx UI — a component library to create accessible websites blazingly fast ⚡️.

Experience

Orchid Studio

Oct 2021 - Present » Fulltime — Remote

UI Designer & Developer

I joined the company as designer #3, collaborating with the team also leading the frontend development for SaaS web apps for startups and scale-ups, refining components and design systems for a wide range of clients and internal projects.

Cabgo SA

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021. » Contract — Remote

UI/UX Designer & Product Owner

Being the most seasoned member of the team, I served as the product owner while we developed the design system and switched to Figma as the primary design tool. Led the design for the e-hailing app v2 and lobbied for Agile Methodologies.

Wehost Africa

Oct 2018 - Dec 2021. » Freelance — Remote

UI/UX Designer & Developer

As the tech founding member I led the early design and development of a new cloud computing platform (FluirCloudTM & pynoviTM), working on core features to improve how developers and IT teams create and scale up virtual servers.

Quatrohaus

Jul 2020 - Aug 2020. » Contract — Harare, ZW

UI/UX Designer

I was the lead designer for Pesepay an upcoming payment gateway for Southern Africa, completing product redesign, overhauling the visual design for marketing and the product and other internal developer-related products like forums.

Nerx Agency

Jan 2018 - Sept 2018. » Fulltime — Norton, ZW

Web Designer & Developer

Joined the team as a junior working side by side with designers and developers, mainly working on quality assurance, testing designing, support and maintenance work for graphics, websites and hosting clients.

Expertise

Product Design
Interaction Design
Frontend Development
Motion Graphics
Design Systems
Accessibility
User Research
Usability Testing

Education

R&Y Creative School of Business

Feb 2023 - 2027 BA. in Visual Communication

Achievements

AWS

— Scheduled Exams**

Webflow

— Certified Webflow Developer

One Money

— (Payment Gateway) Hackathon Winner

Achievements

Figma & Sketch

Webflow

WordPress / Elementor

Framer & Motion

Zeplin

Javascript / TypeScript

Adobe Creative Cloud

Protopie

Atlassian Suite

Supabase / Firebase

Git & Github

Greensock (GSAP)

VueJS(NuxtJS)

TailwindCSS

ReactJS(Next.js)

Resume

I am a User Interface Engineer with a passion for design systems, accessibility, and product design. Also, the creator of Onyx UI a Webflow & Framer component library that helps designers create accessible websites and apps with speed.

Projects

Onyx UI (alpha)

May 2022 ~

Co-creator, Designer & Developer

My primary focus these days is Onyx UI — a component library to create accessible websites blazingly fast ⚡️.

Experience

Orchid Studio

Oct 2021 - Present » Fulltime — Remote

UI Designer & Developer

I joined the company as designer #3, collaborating with the team also leading the frontend development for SaaS web apps for startups and scale-ups, refining components and design systems for a wide range of clients and internal projects.

Cabgo SA

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021. » Contract — Remote

UI/UX Designer & Product Owner

Being the most seasoned member of the team, I served as the product owner while we developed the design system and switched to Figma as the primary design tool. Led the design for the e-hailing app v2 and lobbied for Agile Methodologies.

Wehost Africa

Oct 2018 - Dec 2021. » Freelance — Remote

UI/UX Designer & Developer

As the tech founding member I led the early design and development of a new cloud computing platform (FluirCloudTM & pynoviTM), working on core features to improve how developers and IT teams create and scale up virtual servers.

Quatrohaus

Jul 2020 - Aug 2020. » Contract — Harare, ZW

UI/UX Designer

I was the lead designer for Pesepay an upcoming payment gateway for Southern Africa, completing product redesign, overhauling the visual design for marketing and the product and other internal developer-related products like forums.

Nerx Agency

Jan 2018 - Sept 2018. » Fulltime — Norton, ZW

Web Designer & Developer

Joined the team as a junior working side by side with designers and developers, mainly working on quality assurance, testing designing, support and maintenance work for graphics, websites and hosting clients.

Expertise

Product Design
Interaction Design
Frontend Development
Motion Graphics
Design Systems
Accessibility
User Research
Usability Testing

Education

R&Y Creative School of Business

Feb 2023 - 2027 BA. in Visual Communication

Achievements

AWS

— Scheduled Exams**

Webflow

— Certified Webflow Developer

One Money

— (Payment Gateway) Hackathon Winner

Achievements

Figma & Sketch

Webflow

WordPress / Elementor

Framer & Motion

Zeplin

Javascript / TypeScript

Adobe Creative Cloud

Protopie

Atlassian Suite

Supabase / Firebase

Git & Github

Greensock (GSAP)

VueJS(NuxtJS)

TailwindCSS

ReactJS(Next.js)

Samson Gilbert Nota — UI Engineer at Orchid Studio

Samson Gilbert Nota — UI Engineer at Orchid Studio

Samson Gilbert Nota — UI Engineer at Orchid Studio