Adebayo Chike
Product Systems Designer · Web Developer · Speaker
A practitioner-speaker, not a keynote celebrity. Every talk is grounded in systems that have been shipped — from fintech payment infrastructure to enterprise LMS platforms. Audiences leave with tools they can apply, not frameworks they need to translate.
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Adebayo Chike is a Senior Product Designer and Web Developer specialising in complex digital systems for fintech and enterprise platforms. With 6+ years of experience, he applies Object-Oriented UX and the ORCA methodology to architect products before a single screen is designed — then builds them using React, Next.js, WordPress, and custom CMS implementations. He works with companies where the product problem is genuinely hard.
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Adebayo Chike sits at an intersection most organisations struggle to find internally: the product designer who also ships the code.
Over six years, Adebayo has built a practice around one conviction — that most product failures are architectural, not aesthetic. When a payment flow confuses users, it's rarely because the button is the wrong colour. It's because the underlying object model was never mapped. This insight led him to Object-Oriented UX (OOUX) and the ORCA methodology, frameworks he now applies to structure every engagement before design begins.
His client and employer work spans some of the most technically demanding domains in digital product: cross-border payment infrastructure at CrossBorda, multi-currency financial platforms at Zuniq, enterprise learning systems at VigiLearn (UAE), and regulated payment flows at VigiPay. These aren't projects that forgive structural shortcuts — and that's exactly the environment where his approach delivers the most leverage.
On the implementation side, Adebayo develops production-ready products using React, Next.js, WordPress, Elementor, and custom CMS solutions — bringing the same systems discipline to code that he applies to design. He bridges the handoff gap not by improving communication between designers and engineers, but by being both.
A recognised practitioner in the African and global design community, Adebayo has facilitated design education at Women Techsters (Tech4Dev · Microsoft) and is ranked among the top UX mentors on ADPList. He is currently available for select speaking engagements with fintech companies, enterprise platforms, and organisations building products in regulated industries.
What Adebayo speaks about.
Four core talks — each grounded in real projects with real constraints. No slides about abstract frameworks.
Object-First: Why Your UX Breaks Before You Draw a Single Screen
Keynote · 30–45 min · Workshop available
A structured introduction to Object-Oriented UX (OOUX) and the ORCA methodology, using real fintech case studies to show how object models prevent the most common product failure modes. Audiences leave with a framework they can apply the next morning.
Why the Best Designers Can Read the Code
Keynote · 25–40 min
On closing the gap between design intent and engineering output — and why the future of senior design work is technical fluency. Not 'designers who code,' but designers who understand what happens after handoff and can close that gap themselves.
Designing for Compliance: KYC, Cross-Border Payments, and the UX of Regulation
Keynote · 35–50 min · Panel format available
Most fintech UX fails at the compliance layer — not because of bad design, but because compliance was treated as a constraint rather than a system object. A practitioner talk on designing KYC flows, AML checks, and multi-corridor payments from real shipped products.
Designing Complex State Machines: Lessons from an Enterprise LMS
Keynote · 30 min · Workshop available
The VigiLearn Exam Portal has five core objects, each with multiple states — Student, Exam, Attempt, Question, Score. This talk traces the OOUX methodology applied to a genuinely complex EdTech product and how structured thinking prevented a dozen design failures.
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I'm selective with speaking engagements — I prefer events where the audience is building real products with real constraints. If that's your community, get in touch. I respond within 48 hours.