Wunmi’s background spans UX, visual design, design systems, and research, giving him a wide perspective on solving complex problems at scale.

His work includes the Verizon Visa Card, a financial product embedded across a 100 million customer ecosystem, Verizon Home, a network management platform powering 12 million households, a conversational AI smart display, and Designcraft, Web.com's design system.

Wunmi built a web-based drawing app and was featured in Crain's New York for building a niche creative technology business.

As an artist, Wunmi is fascinated by how technology accelerates discovery and iteration. He occasionally facilitates drawing classes, using observation as a teaching tool.

Wunmi Atewologun

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

Open to select opportunities and advisory engagements.

I’m a product design leader specializing in fintech and enterprise platforms. 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. 

My work at a glance

100m

Customers in the financial ecosystem my products touch

293m

Devices on the platform I designed

90%

Card activation rate achieved on the Verizon Visa Card

24

Designers guided and led

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.

  • 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, judgment, ethics and human insight to bring it across the finish line.