Product Designer Segun Akinnibosun Shares Career Advice for Nigerians in Tech

Segun Akinnibosun, Lead Product Designer at Rvysion and Global Tech Hero 2025, shared his career journey from fashion styling to product design, having delivered over 8 client products across fintech, media, logistics, and infrastructure for companies including Lateral Frontiers, Idara, MyTechStory, Voxtell, AgRails, DreamVC, HoneyCoin, and Creators Inc.

His insights matter because they show that success in product design goes beyond making screens look good—it requires clear communication, storytelling, and linking work to business outcomes. For Nigerians aiming to grow in tech, this advice counters the common focus on perfect visuals and emphasizes thinking like a designer, solving real problems, and navigating constraints such as time, engineering, and stakeholder demands.

He advises entry-level designers to stop obsessing over pixel-perfect UI and instead learn to break down problems, connect decisions to user needs and business goals, and communicate their work like their career depends on it. They should work on real products, collaborate, seek feedback, ship even when imperfect, and own problems end-to-end rather than just being a UI designer forever. Confidence and framing work as outcomes, not output, are key to making value obvious.

SOURCE: https://techcabal.com/2026/04/17/quick-fire-%f0%9f%94%a5-with-segun-akinnibosun/