I'm Kelvin, a senior product designer from Nairobi, working on money products for people who've never been at the centre of how they're designed.

I studied Computer Science at Riara University (graduated First Class, 2020). I thought I'd become an engineer. Then I joined KamiLimu, met designers who treated design as thinking and not decoration, and that was that.

Since then I've worked across startups and innovation hubs, then Kwara (designing for SACCOs, Kenya's cooperative banks), and for the last few years at Safaricom, leading design for Financial Services at M-PESA.

What I care about: financial products that meet people where they actually are. That often means designing for a feature phone and a smartphone in parallel. It means naming dignity as a design constraint, not a nice-to-have. And it means listening carefully to users whose financial lives are usually designed around, not for.

When I'm not designing, I mentor on ADPList, help junior designers find their footing, and spend time with the Nairobi design community.