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