Joy Kendi

Product Designer

Service Designer

UX Researcher

About Me

Artist, Thinker, Creative Doer

I am a Product & Service Designer @ iHub Software Consulting

I am passionate about both technology and design thinking's ability to bring together diverse people to co-create the right solutions and believe this approach can change Africa.

I conduct UX research, facilitate ideation workshops and design sprints, design wireframes and run usability tests.

Testimonials

Thank you Joy! You have been of great help to my side hustle and my current position at work. Will be much better on HCD implementation

Staff Member

Safaricom Ltd

Services

Design Workshop Facilitation

Service Design

UX Research

Agile Project Management

UX Training

Clients

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Resume

8 Years of Experience

Experience

January 2018 - Current

Design & Projects Lead

iHub Software Consulting

Key responsibilities include: Design Thinking, i.e facilitating design thinking workshops and design sprints, Conducting UX Research, Usability testing, training organizations on the use of Human Centered Design; Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospective meetings with clients and the software development team; Process Management and Improvement - Define and manage a well-defined process for design and software project management

December 2014 - December 2017

Agile Project Manager

iHub Limited

Key responsibilities: Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demos and retrospective meetings with development team and clients; Process Management and Improvement; Project Planning and Management; Supporting product owners in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, grooming and maintaining the product backlog; Issue Tracking, User story tracking and management of Scrum and Kanban boards for projects

Jan 2013 - August 2014

Product Usability & Support Manager

Echo Mobile Ltd

I managed the pipeline of existing clients and helped them with usability issues, collected feedback from them on platform bugs and suggestions for improvement and made recommendations to the development team on changes to improve usability. I supported about 30 organizations in implementing mobile communications in their projects. Some of the organizations I worked with include UNICEF Education team, World Bank Water and Sanitation Program in Tanzania, Poverty Action in Deworming School Children Programs and Kenya Markets Trust in their health and agriculture programs.