About

I trained as a doctor before I trained as a designer, and the order matters more than it sounds like it should. Medicine teaches you to look closely at something before you're allowed to have an opinion about it — to observe, rule things out, and only then act. Design rewarded that habit rather than replacing it.

Clinical work also leaves you with a low tolerance for things that look finished but don't hold up under pressure. A chart that's technically complete but impossible to read quickly is a liability, not a deliverable. I bring the same standard to interfaces: clarity under real conditions, not just in the mockup.

Photography sits alongside that, not apart from it. It's the same practice of framing — deciding what's in view, what's excluded, and where the eye should land first. Composition, light, and restraint show up in my layouts for the same reasons they show up in a photograph.

And I don't stop at the static version. If a design only exists as a mockup, I haven't finished testing it — so I build the working version myself. These days that means React and Next.js, with Claude and Cursor doing a good share of the actual typing while I hold the line on what the thing is supposed to feel like. Vibe-coded, deliberately designed — those aren't in tension the way people assume.

Currently splitting weeks between clinical shifts, product design engagements, and photo commissions around Lagos — in roughly that order of predictability.