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This was a collaborative project between final year graduate students at Dalhousie University and the Innovation Hub at Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA). The students were challenged to build a provincial medical platform that would help to maintain specialists and patients’ appointment and ultimately reduce wait times in the province.

Brooi is a real estate platform that uses data to solve several challenges plaguing the Nigerian real estate industry. It aims to be the trusted source for home buyers, sellers and renters through a network of professional relators with experience and credibility in the business.

Objectives

• Provide an innovative and data-driven solution for individual users and real estate professionals.
• Use technology to change the process of renting, buying and leasing a property.
• Provide value for home service professionals via the internet.
• Connect buyers and sellers of properties using data.
• Offer assistance for creating property listings (such as taking pictures/videos, making virtual tours, marketing, scheduling meetings, documentation, negotiation, and closing deals.

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Commons is a full-stack event discovery and community platform designed to help people discover meaningful local experiences while enabling organizers to create, manage, and grow their events.

As the founder and sole product designer/developer, I led the entire product lifecycle; from defining the product vision and designing user experiences to architecting the application, building the platform, and continuously iterating based on user needs.

• Role: Product Designer, Product Engineer & Founder
  
• Timeline: Ongoing
  
• Platform: Web & Mobile
  
• Tools & Technologies: Figma, React, Next.js, Supabase,  PostgreSQL, Stripe, Tailwind CSS

The Child Care and Early Years (CCEY) IT Modernization project was a multi-year digital transformation initiative for the Ontario Ministry of Education. The goal was to modernize how families, child care providers, EarlyON operators, Service System Managers (SSMs), and Ministry staff access and manage child care and early years services across Ontario.

My role – UX/UI & Service Designer

I worked as part of a multidisciplinary team responsible for:

• Service design and journey mapping
• UX and UI design
• Information architecture
• Usability testing and research
• Accessibility and inclusive design
• Stakeholder collaboration and design facilitation

The challenge

Families and service providers were navigating fragmented systems, manual processes, and inconsistent experiences while trying to access and deliver child care services. The challenge was to design and build a unified digital experience that simplified complex provincial services while meeting the needs of multiple user groups (including parents, child care licencees, EarlyON service providers, Service System Managers, and Ministry staff).

What we designed

The project focused on three core services:

• EarlyON – helping families discover and register for programs while ensuring that EarlyON service providers can manage their programs and registrations.
• Child Care – helping families search for, apply to, and manage child care placements while ensuring child care licensees can manage their prohrams and application.
• Fee Subsidy – helping families estimate eligibility and apply for financial support

Across the project, our team designed over 1,000 screens spanning parent, provider, SSM, and Ministry portals, including experiences for mobile and bilingual users.

Research and validation

A key part of the project was continuous user testing and iteration. Over the Alpha phase, the team conducted:

• 359 usability tests
• 32 design iterations
• Testing with parents, providers, operators, SSMs, and Ministry staff
  Both moderated and unmoderated research sessions

This research directly informed design improvements and helped ensure solutions were grounded in real user needs.

Outcome

The project delivered validated Alpha prototypes for future implementation and provided the Ministry with a user-tested foundation for modernizing child care and early years services across Ontario. User feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with an average usability rating of 4.5 out of 5 across testing activities. 

 

Note: Due to project confidentiality and ongoing development, screenshots and design files cannot be publicly shared. A walkthrough of the work can be provided upon request.