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How I designed Zalando’s Invite-Only shopping experience, which has received over 15 million invitation requests across 28 countries in Europe.
Damola Akinleye
Staff Product Designer & Builder
Hi, I’m Damola, a product designer and builder. Over the past eight years, I’ve turned complex problems into useful digital products across different industries.
Today at Zalando , I work in Transactions & Payments, designing the cart and checkout experience for over 48 million customers across 29 countries in Europe.
I also founded Collabsprint , pairing early-career professionals with mentors from companies including Amazon, Google and Miro to build real products and gain hands-on experience.
I use AI to prototype, code, and turn ideas into working products. I publicly document that practice and open-source some of my code on GitHub.
View selected workSee what I’m building on GitHub
Selected product work
Practice management
Soundry EHR Portal
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How I designed Soundry’s care and billing tools as its founding product designer, supporting 90+ US providers and over $2 million in processed insurance coverage.
Insurance booking
Booking Process Redesign
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How I redesigned Thinksurance’s core booking journey for over 45,000 insurance brokers, supporting over €5.6 million in annual revenue.
Gift cards
Gift Card Refactoring
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How I redesigned Zalando’s gift-card experience across 23 European markets, supporting over €9 million in weekly payments.
Notifications
Notification Center
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How I led the design of Zalando’s Notification Center across 28 countries in Europe, recording over 8 million monthly customer visits.
Product customisation
Customized Jerseys
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How I helped bring jersey customisation to Zalando for the 2026 World Cup, with over 34% purchase completion after launch.
Cart & checkout
Cart & Checkout Experiments
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How I used rapid experimentation, AI-assisted prototyping and A/B testing to refine Zalando’s cart and checkout experience.
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