Hi, I’m Marienoel
Curious thinker thinking curious thoughts + designing digital products that make your life so much easier
Curious thinker thinking curious thoughts + designing digital products that make your life so much easier
Hi, I'm Marienoel- call me Marie ◡̈
I tend to think about how things are interacted with. Even a fried chicken drumstick becomes, in my mind, an example of intuitive design: shaped for grip, ease, and sequence. That instinct has followed me across every role I've had.
My background spans customer experience, fintech operations, and product design. At Paystack, I spent two years resolving user issues at scale; noticing patterns in frustrations, identifying the design decisions behind them, and escalating insights to product teams. That inside view of how real users interact with financial products shapes how I design today.
I'm co-founder and design lead at Flying Kite, an indie product studio exploring how design can shape everyday digital experiences. We're currently building our pilot app, a grocery calculator which streamlines the flow between your notes app and calculator app to make calculating your groceries in real time a little bit easier.
Outside work, I make things with my hands! currently acrylic painting, with a long-term goal of trying every art form there is. I'm also a collaborator at Motitomi, a Pan-African creative community where I design experiences beyond screens.
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A concept grocery-budgeting experience designed to help university students track spending in real time while shopping in-store. Skills: Product Design, User Research, Prototyping. Timeline: Sep 2025 to Nov 2025. Role: Product Designer.
This project stemmed from a personal frustration with tracking grocery costs in real time while shopping in-store as a budget-conscious university student. Relying on calculator apps and mental math created anxiety around the final bill and increased the risk of overspending.
How can I help university students to track spending in real time, discreetly and accurately, while shopping in-store?
A real-time grocery budgeting mobile app that lets users track item costs as they shop, see their remaining budget instantly, and make confident decisions before reaching the cashier. Features: Real-Time Cart Total, All-in-One Shopping Flow, Budget Tracker, Discreet Budgeting.
Brainstorming with two developers, mapping pain points to user needs and features, wireframing in FigJam, design research drawing on the iOS Calculator and Notes apps and on OPay and PiggyVest privacy toggles, and usability testing with 5 users.
Learnability 5/5, Preference 3/5, Task Success Rate 4/5, Discoverability 5/5.
Next steps include barcode scanning, partnerships with grocery stores, live product testing and exploring integration with Apple Notes.
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A concept mobile version of Watchtower, Paystack’s internal tool, focused on enabling quick transaction checks for debit issues. Skills: UI Design, User Research, Prototyping. Role: Product Designer.
Watchtower is Paystack’s internal database tool used to trace and confirm transaction statuses. As a Customer Success Associate, accessing it on mobile was a hassle, which made handling urgent issues difficult when away from a laptop.
User interviews with 11 customer success agents confirmed the challenge and helped narrow the scope to debit issues workflows.
How can I help debit issues agents to quickly verify transaction statuses on their mobile device?
A lightweight mobile experience for quickly verifying Paystack transactions on the go, centred on transactions and the most common search identifiers: Transaction ID, Transaction Reference and Merchant Reference.
Grounding decisions in research is essential. Next steps include learning how other teams use Watchtower, security for work tools on personal devices, and testing in real on-the-go scenarios.
