Wunmi Atewologun

Product design leader, building alignment and guiding designers through vision and craft.  

Open to select opportunities.

I’m a product design leader specializing in secure, privacy-first platforms that protect user data and build trust at scale. With a background spanning UX, visual design, and design systems, I lead and develop teams that build products people depend on at scale.

As an artist, I’m fascinated by how technology accelerates exploration and iteration while designers provide the judgment that shapes meaningful outcomes. I use AI to accelerate my work and coach designers to do the same, knowing the learning goes both ways. 

Leading with humans in mind

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Customers interact with financial experiences that my team designed to improve their well-being. We never lost sight of the fact that each one of those customers is a real person with real financial goals and anxieties.

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Devices, powered by a platform my team, engineering, and product built together. I’m very proud of our work because behind every device is a household that has a safer and more secure network.

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Incredible people who taught me as much as I taught them. Mentoring and growing them is a great privilege. Many of us are still in touch today.

FAQs

  • I surface what each stakeholder needs, facilitate joint problem-solving around shared goals and customer data, and keep product, engineering, and business partners close to the research so decisions belong to the whole team. I use principled negotiation for resolving conflicts without damaging relationships or compromising product quality. Always coaching my team to do the same.

  • I  make sure research informs decisions throughout the product lifecycle. I build relationships with research partners, coach my team to write briefs for qualitative studies that answer the question why, and layer in structured methods like card sorting, Kano, and MaxDiff to quantify what matters most. 

    I encourage designers to be hands-on in understanding the customer by watching session recordings, running rapid studies, and interpreting behavioral analytics.

  • As a Senior Design Manager, I use AI as a leadership tool to prepare for difficult conversations, synthesize team feedback, and make faster, more informed decisions.

    For designers, AI Is a great tool that compresses research time, accelerates prototyping, and makes it possible to explore more directions in less time. Designers still provide taste, ethics and human insight to bring it across the finish line.

    I see a pattern of how AI is changing the design process, which I am studying and encouraging:

    • Team begins in an LLM to align around a shared understanding

    • Work with our Research team and talk to customers early and often 

    • Prototype with AI (Claude Code, Figma Make) while humans guide UX quality 

    • Design flows in Figma when the concept is validated. Include edge cases, unhappy paths, and align with accessibility and design system.