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Projects
in progress.

Not everything here is finished. That is partly the point.

Some are being built. Some are being tested. Some are sitting quietly until I know what to do with them.

Tracing paper, wireframe sketches, plants and project notes on a studio desk.

Project status guide

Building

I’m actively making it.

Exploring

Still figuring out what this wants to become.

Paused

Not abandoned. Just not moving right now.

Live

It’s out in the world.

Featured project

Building

Studio

Perah Studio is where my design work has a proper home: brands, websites, digital products and a few ideas of my own.

It holds client work and independent experiments, with Perah Lab making room for the smaller product ideas.

Right now, I’m refining the studio site, publishing selected work and building small products through Perah Lab.

Perah Studio homepage showing the design house and its four-room navigation.

Design studies

Selected digital concepts

Self-directed explorations across different products, organisations and experiences.

Project index

Things currently taking shape

A mix of products, experiments, archives and ideas at different stages.

Process

How I usually build

Not a fixed framework. Just the pattern I seem to return to.

  1. 1

    Notice

    Something feels confusing, missing or harder than it needs to be.

  2. 2

    Frame

    I try to understand the actual problem before committing to a polished answer.

  3. 3

    Make

    I sketch, prototype, write or code until the idea becomes concrete enough to test.

  4. 4

    Release

    the difficult bit

    I am learning to let useful work leave the desk before it feels completely finished.

Archive drawer

From an earlier chapter

Selected projects that helped shape how I work now.

Mboacare home experience before and after navigation and content refinements.

Product work

Mboacare

A mobile healthcare platform developed during my Outreachy internship with Mboalab, from May to August 2023.

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  • Reach4Christ website redesign shown across a laptop, tablet and phone.

    Website redesign

    Reach4Christ

    A four-week redesign exploring clearer navigation, storytelling and participation for a Christian outreach organisation.

    Archived
  • Klubiq property management interface shown across desktop and mobile screens.

    Product design

    Klubiq

    A landlord-facing property management concept for tracking units, maintenance, tenants and financial information.

    Archived
  • Small prototype cards, labels and interface fragments arranged as an orderly experiment tray.

    Experiments

    Perah Lab

    Small digital products, prototypes and ideas developed under Perah Studio.

    Archived
  • An indigo night archive with a warm moon, a tortoise-shell motif and softly glowing story cards.

    Cultural storytelling

    Under the Tortoise Moon

    A released storytelling project rooted in Nigerian oral tradition and family memory.

    Released
  • Editorial webpage fragments, a botanical mark and contrasting light and dark paper layers.

    Personal archive

    Dearly Debbie

    This website: a home for projects, writing, music, faith and unfinished thoughts.

    Archived
  • A curved trail crossing layered landscape contours.

    Experience design

    Quiet Trails

    An earlier MA project about place, attention and ways of moving through an environment.

    Archived
  • A luminous dome formed from soft, expanding rings.

    Interactive installation

    Breath of Light

    A dome-based visual and sound experience shaped by participants’ breathing.

    Archived
  • A modular planter with several growing stems and shared connecting lines.

    Collaborative project

    Whitleigh Community Planter

    A community planter concept developed around participation, local identity and shared ownership.

    Archived
  • Data points and editorial lines resolving into a clear circular composition.

    Writing series

    Data × Design × You

    A reflective series translating data science and precision-medicine topics through a design lens.

    Released

Still becoming

Some projects are public. Some are still becoming clear.

I keep this page updated as things move forward, pause or finally leave the desk.