Product discovery and UX strategy
Clarify product goals, users, constraints, and MVP scope so early teams can move from vague intent to buildable product direction.
Research notes, journeys, flows, opportunity maps, MVP scope.
Nairobi, Kenya / Available for full-time and contract work
Japheth Oruko
Product Designer and Full-Stack Product Builder helping teams move from ambiguous ideas to user-centered, scalable digital products.
I help founders and product teams turn rough ideas into clear, buildable digital products: user-centered flows, polished interfaces, design systems, user stories, production-ready React/Next.js experiences, and practical backend workflows.
PixeSciProduct DesignerFrontend DeveloperFull-Stack BuilderProject ManagerReact.jsNext.jsClaudeCodexMUIDaisyUIshadcn/uiTailwind CSS
Overview
LCLocationNairobi, Kenya
TMLocal timeNairobi time
PHPhone+254 758 750674
EMEmailorukojapheth@gmail.com
AVAvailabilityFull-time and contract available
LALanguagesEnglish fluent, Swahili native
GitHub activity
Recent engineering activity across public GitHub work.
A live view of public contribution activity from my GitHub account, showing the consistency behind my frontend, product, and AI-assisted development practice.
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Contributions
Contributions to previous projects.
900+
High-fidelity screens and prototypes
400+
User stories with acceptance criteria
120+
MVP features across web and mobile platform work
40%
Faster design-to-development handoff
30%
Delivery cycle time reduction
25%
Task-flow efficiency improvement
40%
Early-stage tester satisfaction improvement
60 days
PixeSci's website and app overhaul
About
A product partner for the messy middle between idea, design, and code.
I am a Nairobi-based Product Designer and Full-Stack Product Builder with 8+ years of experience creating digital products. My strongest work sits at the intersection of product definition, user-centric UI/UX, interface systems, React/Next.js implementation, and practical backend workflows.
I am especially useful in zero-to-one and startup environments where there is no perfect brief. I can help define the problem, shape the MVP, design the experience, document the behavior, and lead implementation across frontend and product-facing backend surfaces.
For established teams, I bring structure to product experiences that need clearer UX, stronger UI systems, modern React/Next.js execution, and better handoff between product, design, and engineering.
For startups
Clarify the product, design the MVP, write buildable stories, and ship interfaces without bloated process.
For product teams
Improve UX, stabilize design systems, document product behavior, and reduce handoff friction.
For engineering teams
Translate designs into practical React/Next.js components and portal workflows with awareness of state, data boundaries, responsiveness, and constraints.
Stack
My tech stack.
Design
FigmaAdobe XDVisual Studio CodeWebStormSketchPrototypingWireframingDesign systems
Frontend and full-stack
Next.jsNest.jsNode.jsReact.jsVue.jsVite.jsAngularTauriTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSTailwind CSSDaisyUIShadcn/uiMaterial UIRedux ToolkitDrizzle ORMlibSQLAccess workflows
Product delivery
JiraConfluenceAtlassianUser storiesBacklog managementAgile/Scrum
Engineering workflow
GitHubGitBitbucketRedux ToolkitDockerJestPostgreSQLPrismaKeycloak
AI-assisted delivery
ClaudeCodexVibe codingAI-assisted UI executionAI-assisted UI explorationAI-assisted refactoringAI-assisted debuggingImplementation planning
Capabilities
Discovery, UX, documentation, frontend implementation, and portal backend workflows in one product workflow.
UI/UX design
Design user-centered interfaces around real tasks, friction points, accessibility needs, and business outcomes.
Wireframes, high-fidelity screens, prototypes, responsive states.
Design systems
Create reusable patterns, components, tokens, and interaction states that make product teams faster and more consistent.
Figma libraries, component specs, UI rules, handoff notes.
User stories and product documentation
Translate business goals and user needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, flows, and Jira/Confluence-ready documentation.
Epics, stories, acceptance criteria, backlog structure.
Frontend and portal development
Build polished, responsive React.js and Next.js interfaces with TypeScript, MUI, DaisyUI, shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS, and practical server-side product workflows.
Production-ready components, responsive pages, authenticated portal flows.
Claude and Codex workflow
Use Claude and Codex to accelerate product exploration, code generation, UI iteration, refactoring, debugging, and planning while keeping product judgment in control.
Faster prototypes, cleaner refactors, implementation plans, debug paths.
Education
Business, product design, and software engineering foundations.
Contact
Have a product that needs clearer UX, sharper execution, or a stronger bridge between design and code?
I am available for full-time and contract work with startups, product teams, and organizations that need practical product design, UX documentation, and frontend implementation support.
Engagement options include contract projects, fractional product/design support, and full-time roles. Rates and scope depend on project complexity, role expectations, and engagement length.