# Joseph Emmanuel > Joseph Emmanuel is a product designer and HCD consultant in Tokyo. He turns enterprise platforms, public services and AI products into experiences people can understand, adopt and run, and builds them too. Joseph Emmanuel (also known as Joseph UX) is a Nigerian product designer and human-centred design consultant living in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan. He has been designing since 2012 and working professionally since 2019. He works on enterprise and legacy system modernisation, GovTech and digital public services, design systems, and human-centred AI, and he also builds front ends. He is the founder of Jemirae (https://www.jemirae.com) and is studying for an MBA at Lakeland University Japan. ## Open to - Full-time & contract roles: Senior product design, UX, HCD and design-lead roles. Tokyo, remote, or worth relocating for. - Consulting & advisory: Enterprise and legacy modernisation, GovTech and digital public services, design systems, human-centred AI. - Speaking & workshops: Design, AI, focus, personal authority and building across borders. Conferences, universities and teams. Contact: josephuxdesigns@gmail.com On TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@josephemmanuel_ayo) Joseph posts short lessons on leadership, purpose, design and AI. ## Case studies - [Haske](https://josephemmanuel.net/work/haske): Voice ordering for Nigerian restaurants. Guests say what they want, the kitchen gets a clean ticket. Role: Product design, front-end build. 2026. - [LockedIn HQ](https://josephemmanuel.net/work/lockedin-hq): An athlete platform connecting NIL deals, brands and recruiters, with an admin command centre behind it. Role: CTO & Head of Design. 2025. - [GAIN Co-Innovation Platform](https://josephemmanuel.net/work/gain-co-innovation): A shared space for policymakers, programme teams and field workers to co-create social protection across seven countries. Role: UI direction, user research lead (Nigeria). 2024 – 2025. - [Gannon University IRB Portal](https://josephemmanuel.net/work/gannon-irb): A research-ethics portal rebuilt from paper and confusion into guided submissions and one review workspace. Role: Lead product designer. 2023 – 2025. - [VIIA](https://viiatravel.com/#home): A ride-booking app and operations dashboard, redesigned for speed on both sides of the trip. 75% faster booking. ## Lab (concept work) - AEGIS 001.01, Metropolitan Command: What if a whole city could understand what is happening from one interface? Emergency dispatch, unit status and recommended responses on a live map. - AEGIS 001.02, Surveillance Intelligence: Camera networks, detections and system health for a metropolitan operator, designed to stay readable at 3am. - AEGIS 001.03, Traffic Operations: Network status, congestion and signal control across a city grid, with incidents surfaced before they spread. - AEGIS 001.04, Critical Infrastructure: Power, water and transport assets on one operational picture, with layers an operator can trust. - Community platform redesign, School of Mentors: A redesign of the School of Mentors community, a group I am part of: feed, classroom, events, leaderboards and member profiles that reward showing up, on tablet, phone and laptop. - GovTech concept, Civara: Setting up a business in a new country means a dozen agencies and no map. Civara turns it into one journey: every permit, its status, who is waiting on whom, and guidance at each step. Full page: https://josephemmanuel.net/lab ## Speaking - 2026, "Beyond Compute" (A human-centred framework for AI infrastructure that institutions keep using) at BUILD AI 2026, Innovation Catalysis track, Abuja, Nigeria · joined remotely from Tokyo. - 2026, "The World Outside the Classroom" (Problems waiting for you to solve) at BLAST Conference 2.0, Blass College, TI Francis Auditorium, FUTA, Akure. - 2026, "The 2026 Playbook" (Scaling via AI, global trust and founder authority) at Venture Café Tokyo, 8th Anniversary Thursday Gathering, CIC Tokyo. - 2025, "The Mastery of Focus" (Create. Automate. Elevate. — staying relevant in an AI-driven economy) at Tech Summit 2025, Premiere Edition, Nigeria · with Elroi Ministries. - 2025, "FYB Workshop & Prayer" (Preparing final-year students for life after school) at Elroi Ministries, Final Year Bound, Elroi Ministries Auditorium, FUTA south gate, Akure. Full page: https://josephemmanuel.net/speaking ## Book - The Sovereign Blueprint: 7 secrets to building a global life from anywhere (The Akure to the World Roadmap). Published 2026-04 by Jemirae Agency Press. A short, practical book for students in Akure and across Nigeria who feel stuck in a system moving too slowly. Not a motivational speech: a blueprint for turning small skills, clear logic and the internet into a career that reaches the world, without losing where you come from. Free e-book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iPEdSZtZin4HY4PQ1fcKIzG7YfJhB0tn/view?usp=sharing ## Experience - 2025 – now: Founder, Jemirae (Tokyo) - 2025 – now: Chief Technology Officer & Head of Design, LockedIn HQ (Maryland, US · remote) - 2024 – 2025: Senior UX Designer, Proportion, Human-Centred Design agency (Netherlands · remote) - 2025: Senior UI Designer, YAMU (Remote) - 2023 – 2025: Lead Product Designer, IRB portal, Gannon University (Pennsylvania, US · remote) - 2023 – 2024: Product Designer, Eweev (United Kingdom · remote) - 2019 – 2023: Product Designer, Amplify Health, VIIA, Scaripay, Muftar and others (Lagos · remote) ## Education - Lakeland University Japan: MBA, in progress (2025 – now) - Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA): B.Tech, Applied Geophysics (2017 – 2022) - Copenhagen Business School: Strategic Management - University of Virginia: Digital Product Management - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: The Value of Human-Centred Design ## Profiles - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-emmanuel-/ - X: https://x.com/emaxj962 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josephemmanuel_ayo - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@josephthedesigner - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@josephemmanuel_ayo - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FCcEULAH8/ - Medium: https://medium.com/@emaxj962 - Contra: https://contra.com/joseph_emmanuel_suhsltcr ## Pages - [Home](https://josephemmanuel.net/) - [About](https://josephemmanuel.net/about) - [Speaking](https://josephemmanuel.net/speaking) - [Lab](https://josephemmanuel.net/lab)