Charles Emmanuel

Happy to Announce! 🥳 👏 Today, I attended the product unveiling Cashblast at Radisson Blu A product I’ve been fortunate to work on as a Product Designer. To me, Cashblast is more than just a product; it's a solution to a significant cultural and legal challenge in Nigeria.

I enjoyed working with team Pen Rebels 👏 ❤️

It’s already April 4… but still, Happy New Month. Q2 is here, & I’m focusing on execution! Learning faster. Building more. Shipping ideas instead of just thinking about them. Already started the quarter deep in a new learning phase, & I can tell this month will be different.

Now it’s Q2, and I’m switching gears. I enrolled in @devanddesignhq Design2MVP course with @Joe_brendan_ Diving into vibe coding & learning how to move from design to functional MVPs faster. The goal this quarter is simple: Design it. Build it. Ship it. New quarter. New skill.

Q1 ended with me earning my illustration certificate from @designwithchike . ✅ 8 weeks of slowing down, paying attention to curves, stroke weights, spacing, and actually building illustrations from scratch. Glad I committed to it.

@DesignedbyVo @designwithchike For where? 😂 I’m still learning….

@ChizzyHemperor @designwithchike Una sabi oo✨✨

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” - Genesis 1:3 Part of last week’s DWC (Week 3) task was to recreate this lamp illustration. - The yellow background image was the reference. - The black-and-white version without text is my sketch……

That moment when understanding clicks after struggling with anchor points and stroke weights. Inspiration credit: Catherine Effiom

But I decided to take it a step further. Instead of stopping at replication, I added a human element, a man standing under the beam, hands lifted, screaming “Let there be light.” For me, it symbolized more than just lighting up a canvas. It represents growth. Clarity……

Happy New Month ✨ New month. New targets. Same discipline. May this month reward consistency, sharpen our skills, and bring clarity to the things we’re building. Let’s execute. 👏

Week 4… but let’s rewind to Week 1. Finally sharing some of my very first @designwithchike tasks. The illustrations I was able to create after just one week of learning the basics. Simple shapes. Clean strokes. Posting this as a reminder that every new skill starts somewhere.

Linnked. I reimagined the lost art of handwritten letters as a typewriter-powered digital interaction. Type it. Customize it. Sign it. Share it. Then watch your recipient open a sealed envelope and see your words type themselves out, one keystroke at a time. Built entirely in @figma Make. Design assets by @_theboygenius_ 🔗 aid-preset-28600686.figma.site #FigmaMakeathon

That shift from “Where can I find this?, How do I tweak this?” to “I can create this.” is powerful. Attached below: • The reference image • My sketch • How I used it in the final design Still early. Still learning. But this right here is why I decided to invest in the skill.

fit a splash screen I was designing. Normally, I would have either paid for it or tried to force it into my design. This time, I studied it… sketched it… and illustrated my own version….

For the longest time, whenever I was working on a project and needed an illustration, the process was always the same: Search. Scroll. Settle. Either the perfect vector was premium and locked behind a paywall… Or it was free but difficult to tweak exactly….

marker of accountability. By the end of these 8 weeks, I want my illustrations to feel as intentional as the products I design. Growth isn’t loud. Sometimes it’s just deciding you’re not done learning.

There’s something humbling about being a student again. Unlearning shortcuts. Paying attention to stroke weights. Balance. Intentionality. Realizing that what looks “simple” is actually deeply structured. I’m sharing this custom DP from the @designwithchike community as a small

I did something recently that I probably should have done a long time ago. For someone who has spent years designing products, building systems, thinking through user flows, sweating over micro-interactions, illustration was that skill I kept postponing.