Olakunle Oluwadare

Product designer

Education

Diploma, User Experience Design, 2022

Hyper Island, Sweden

Work experience

Co-founder, Product & Design @ Takers HQ

Nov 2024 - Present | Lagos, Nigeria (Remote)

Co-founded and lead product strategy for a trust-first marketplace connecting task posters with local service providers in Nigeria. Responsible for product vision, user research, marketplace design, validation, growth experiments, and execution from concept through launch.

Senior Product Designer @ Fishbrain

Apr 2026 - Present | Stockholm, Sweden

I own end to end design across core product areas from discovery through engineering handoff. Work within a continuous discovery practice, partnering with product and engineering to ship features grounded in real angler behaviour.

Senior Product Designer @ TV4 Media

April 2025 - April 2026 | Stockholm, Sweden

I led cross-platform initiatives across TV4's streaming, live TV, and news products. Partnered with product, engineering, editorial, and commercial teams to define opportunities, align stakeholders, and deliver experiences that improved content discovery, playback, and audience engagement at scale.

Product Designer @ TV4 Media

Dec 2022 - April 2025 | Stockholm, Sweden

Owned end-to-end product design across TV4's news and streaming platforms. Led discovery, research, and iterative design efforts that improved navigation, content discovery, and reader engagement while helping teams balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.

UX Designer @ Mischief Makers

Jan 2022 - June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Redesigned the company’s digital presence to clarify their offering and reduce friction in the workshop discovery and booking journey. I conducted research, mapped journeys, and improved the information architecture, contributing to reduced bounce rates and improved engagement across key pages.

Contracts/Involvements

UX Designer @ Routes In

June 2021 - June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Partnered with NGOs to design inclusive digital tools connecting immigrants and local communities in Sweden.

Simplified onboarding and service navigation, resulting in higher volunteer engagement and participation.

UX Designer @ WeTransfer

June 2021 - June 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

I was responsible for creating a practical guide to help teams run better meetings. The tool had to be designed and built entirely in Notion, which was challenging, but we delivered a clean and effective solution.

UX Designer @ Tommy Hilfiger FFC

October 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

I participated in the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge as the UX designer on the Care+Wear team, guiding key UX decisions and contributing to our final presentation. Our team finished 2nd in the competition.

UX Designer @ Bravida

June 2021 | Karlskrona, Sweden

During my time at Hyper Island, I teamed up with four classmates to rethink Bravida’s customer relations platform. Our proposed design was selected and adopted as the core of their updated CRM system.

UX Designer @ Holms

October 2021 | Karlskrona, Sweden

Together with four classmates, I carried out an expert review of Holm’s website, mapped key customer journeys, and developed design recommendations to lower bounce rates and turn more visitors into customers.