Live at afrivendor.com, with the apps announced for iOS and Android.

Mapped the customer and vendor journeys separately, then built one design system so the apps, the web apps and the admin dashboard stay one product.

Two products, one system

Designed a structured service request: the customer describes the job, the request moves through defined states, and proposals come back to be compared side by side.

The custom-orders flow

A vendor-side RFS dashboard with smart matching and compatibility scoring, a proposal builder, negotiation chat and payment tracking.

Matching and proposals

Booking and escrow integration so payment is held until the work is delivered, with admin-side escrow monitoring.

Money that feels safe

An identity built on the letter A as an arc and a bridge: bronze and deep earth brown, Unbounded with Unageo, carried across the app, the site and print.

Brand

A marketplace connecting African and UK service vendors with customers: brand, customer and vendor apps, a web app, an admin dashboard and a custom-orders system.

Aliyu Mubarak (me)

Afrivendor

Delivered: brand guide, logo system and collateral; live at lyvads.com.

Positioned Lyvads against Cameo, influence.co and memmo, then wrote the internal and external brand strategy from the gap.

Audit & strategy

Drew the spark mark by hand first, then refined its construction and clear space so it holds at app-icon size.

Sketches & marks

Six tones — innovative purple, fun pink, joyful yellow, creative coral, dark and light — so the brand can be loud on social and calm in the product.

A system with range

Gabarito throughout, plus patterns, social templates, stationery, merch and a 20-page guide.

Collateral

The brand identity for a creator-collaboration platform: a spark mark, a six-colour system and a 20-page guide, built for influencers and the brands that hire them.

Lyvads

Live at hibgreenbox.com and still growing.

Interviews and user stories with farmers, buyers and the product owner to map how produce, services and training change hands today.

Research

User flows for buying, selling and admin management, tested on paper before a single screen was drawn.

Flows

A brand identity built around the Greenbox mark, so the platform feels trustworthy to farmers and buyers alike.

Identity

Hi-fi mockups and prototypes for the marketplace, wallet and dashboards, refined through usability testing.

Interface & testing

A marketplace and farm-management platform connecting farmers, buyers, logistics and training.

Hafiz Ibrahim Bello

Abubakar Mukhtar

Muhammad Sani Haruna

Hi B Greenbox

Launched at kidsintech.school, with bootcamp cohorts running in Sokoto.

A bright, confident identity that speaks to kids without talking down to their parents.

A site that explains the tracks, ages and outcomes clearly and makes enrolling simple.

Website

A learning platform where students follow lessons, submit projects and see their progress.

KITOS

Starnova Labs' flagship coding bootcamp for children aged 8–18: brand, website and the KITOS learning platform.

Kids in Tech

Live at cuzooapp.com, with the apps in both stores.

Defined who uses each of the five surfaces, what they need in the moment, and where the handoffs happen.

Map the surfaces

A shared component library so the user app, vendor tools and rider app speak the same language.

One design system

Ordering, fulfilment, dispatch and fleet flows designed end to end, not screen by screen.

Flows per role

Clickable prototypes tested with merchants and riders before engineering.

Prototype & test

A six-screen discovery flow — search, filters, location and a no-results recovery screen that offers a way out instead of an apology — shipped with its own tokens and icon set.

Vendor discovery

A Nigerian merchant OS and delivery platform across five surfaces: user app, vendor interface, rider app, fleet management and the public website.

Cuzoo

Researched how people search for venues and services today, and where the process breaks down.

Discovery

Designed listing and comparison patterns that put price, location and availability first.

Compare

A single booking flow with clear steps, confirmations and reminders.

Book

A booking and discovery platform for Nigeria: find, compare and book places and services in one flow.

Zariya

Redesigned the identity to feel modern and credible while staying rooted in Hausa culture.

Designed layouts that hold up in both English and Hausa, where text lengths differ.

Bilingual system

Built the EN/HA website with a language toggle that keeps you on the same page.

Digital skills training in the Hausa language, with a bilingual EN/HA website and a redesigned identity.

HausaLearn

Live, with a marketing site, docs and help centre alongside the platform.

Followed a term from admission to results to find where time and data get lost.

Map the school year

Designed admissions, classes, results and admin as connected modules on shared data.

Modules

Built the system in Next.js with role-based views for admins, teachers and staff.

Build

Automated end-of-year promotion: the system recommends, the admin decides — the step that used to eat a whole week.

The promotion engine

A school management system covering admissions, classes, results and administration, built in Next.js.

EduStack

Live, managing residential, commercial and condominium properties across Kampala.

Separated what a resident needs from what a diaspora investor needs, and gave each its own path through the site.

Two audiences

Cinzel and Montserrat over a charcoal-and-amber palette, built as components so thirteen admin modules stay consistent.

Design system

Designed role-based dashboards for owners, residents and staff around the daily jobs: occupancy, maintenance, statements.

Dashboards

Built the frontend in Next.js, from the public pages to the dashboard screens.

A property management platform for a Kampala company: the public site plus role-based dashboards and thirteen admin modules. Lead design + frontend.

Nexora

A clear, trustworthy brand for a shop that sells high-value devices.

Designed the system around the IMEI, so each device has one record from stock to sale.

IMEI-first data

Built the dashboard, stock, sales and reporting screens with role-based access.

A brand identity and inventory management system for a phones and gadgets retailer, tracking every device by IMEI from stock to sale.

I Wan Buy Gadgets

Delivered: brand guide and full asset pack.

Defined the brand's voice and positioning: quiet luxury for modest fashion.

Strategy

Drew the signet "S" emblem, built to work stitched on a label as well as on screen.

The signet

A 19-page guide and a 122-file asset pack so the brand stays consistent everywhere.

System

The brand identity for a Nigerian modest fashion label: a signet "S" emblem, a 19-page guide and a 122-file asset pack.

Savéra

Delivered: three brand guides, a revised logo suite and a full asset pack.

Mapped the LLC, Coaching and Circle and how they relate to each other.

Architecture

A typographic mark that works on its own and as the root of each sub-brand.

The "im" mark

Colour, type and layout rules that let each offer feel distinct but connected — plus illustrations, fourteen icons and eighteen social posts.

A three-part identity system (LLC, Coaching, Circle) built around a typographic "im" mark.

Inner Mirror

Identity, guidelines and asset pack delivered; the platform is live at ekobuja.com.

Wrote the brand strategy: accessible, trustworthy, growth-minded — a platform for first-time investors, not speculators.

Positioning

Built the story around "Eko" and "Buja" so the name carries national reach before a word of copy is read.

The name

Sketched the National Theatre's architecture down to three stacked blocks, then cut the letter E into them from a perspective view.

The mark

Deep teal and lime with Raleway, written up as brand guidelines with stationery, social templates and app icons.

The system

Designed the app and store screens: browse listings, buy shares, track earnings, fund the wallet and cash out.

Product

Brand identity and product design for a fractional real-estate platform: own a share of Nigerian property from ₦10,000.

All work.