Lola Salehu

Product Designer, Paystack
 https://www.notion.so/Lola-Salehu-4a59dd1b980b4502917b0790e388f217

Lola Salehu is a Product Designer, Writer, and self-taught Front-end Developer from Lagos, Nigeria. She currently works at Paystack, a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses in Africa. She is an advocate for inclusion and intersectionality in the tech space, as well as content-first design. She gives back to the tech community by speaking at conferences, volunteering for open-source projects, and teaching design education to beginners every other weekend. She’s also a photographer, slightly obsessed with documenting experiences, and can usually be found creating on her laptop or outdoors exploring something new.

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  • Day 1

    August 5, 2021

  • 9:35 am  - 10:20 am
    As we continue to push innovation, we’re watching the gaps of inequities and inequalities grow wider. This is especially evident with so many products today, as designs that work perfectly for most people, usually do not work well for kids. But kids' perceptions and experiences matter because they now make up an essential audience for many websites and apps (e.g Zoom). Especially since owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning has more or less become necessary among kids of all ages. It is our responsibility as designers to understand that every design decision we make has the potential to include or exclude people. Therefore, there is a need to make sure that our solutions can extend to as many people as reasonably possible regardless of age, context, or situation. Having designed for kids myself, I will be sharing practical tips on how to better address this by specifically considering children’s wants and needs in the design process. We will also cover the subtle differences and a few similarities between designing for kids and designing for adults, in a bid to consider people of all ages.
    DEI
    Where
    Main Stage




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