Luke Ngakane
Senior Product Designer at Shopify
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Ngakane is a senior product designer with a decade of experience crafting human-centered products and scalable design systems, currently shaping Shopify’s international UX to meet the needs of global merchants. His career spans agency and in-house roles across London, Paris, Montreal, San Francisco and Berlin, where he opened the German branch of a design consultancy and helped mature product design practices at ResearchGate. Skilled at turning complex product challenges into delightful, usable experiences, he brings a background in art direction and cross-disciplinary collaboration from brands like Ogilvy and clients across media and tech. Off the clock he obsessively experiments with cooking and grows obscure vegetables on his balcony, a detail that signals his hands-on, iterative approach to both craft and life.
38 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Communication, Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Communication at Kingston UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Communications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Communications at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
English, French
Github Skills (63)
design-tokens10
shopify10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
figma-plugin10
component-library10
react10
session-management9
sketch7
data-access-layer7
auth6
payment6
authentication6
mongodb5
nodejs5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
itsluke/dotfiles
May 2019 - Jun 2023
:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
Contributions:12 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 2 months
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