I enjoy making things and solving problems with technology.

Hello 👋🏾 and Welcome

My name is Michelle Enakeno Umar and welcome to my personal website. This is the part where I tell you: “I have 100 years experience in doing X, Y and Z”. I wish I could but I freeze whenever I have to say something about myself. Recently, I learned that if you do not sell yourself, no one will. So I am working on myself – and it’ll take a while. For now, this section is in progress but let’s just say I design digital products (web, mobile, and games). Please make yourself at home ❤️❤️

Contact Me: menakeno.creative@gmail.com

Game

Design.

I build immersive worlds and tell stories through gaming.

Digital

Products.

I merge user needs and business objectives to design impactful, human-centered products.

Challenges

What I’ve Participated in.

I like to participate in competitions to test myself. “Am I making progress with my learning? How much pressure can I take? Will I be able to deliver under tight constraints”?

Second Place.

TEAM

Maliyo Games Internship Game Jam (2022). View Game

First Place.

INDIVIDUAL

Ingressive For Good 30 Days of Design Challenge (2021). Read Journal Entry

First Place.

INDIVIDUAL

Passenger experience – SITA Hackathon (2021).  Read Case Study

Third Place.

TEAM

Best Game – Gameup Africa (MaliyoX Google) (2021). Read Case Study

Third Place.

TEAM

Financial Solutions Category – Hack The Normal Africa (2021). Read Journal Entry

Third Place.

TEAM

Most Compelling Project – Hack Ur Culture (2020). Read Case Study

UI SHOTS

What I’m Designing.

UI shots are assignments I give myself to improve my visual design skills. As a quick note, this section is still in progress 😊

Shot 1: Cube Tech

Shot 2: Vivante – a vibrant lipstick brand. Dribbble | Behance

Portfolio

What I’ve Made.

These are the projects I have worked on. Due to NDA, I have to omit really cool projects but I am in a fierce battle with procrastination to finish (pending) personal projects and share my process here.

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Game, UX Design

Mastering the Kitchen: Disney Iwájú’s Rising Chef

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UI Design, UX Design

LevelUP: Gamified Learning – 1 of 2

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Game

Game Jam: Afro-Futurism

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Prototype, UI Design, UX Design, Web App

Archives and Collections

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Prototype, UI Design

Personal Travel Companion

The Imposter Banner
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Game, UI Design

The Imposter

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UI Design

One Design Everyday For 30 Days

Journal Entries

Sharing my Thoughts.

When I have time, I try to write about different things.

AR/VR Africa: Pre-hackathon Training

UPDATE A few days before our final capstone project, my laptop got damaged. Unfortunately, I couldn’t fix it before the...

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195 Days of Code Challenge

I haven’t been updating my website for a while now – I just have a lot on my plate. There’s...

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Sarai: Project Update Three

Things have not gone as planned. On February 10th, the VPS hosting for Sarai expired. Around Dec it did expire...

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Crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.
Tim S. Grover