UX Kitchen KE

Elevating tech experiences in Africa through mastery of UX.
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[Nairobi Design (Week) @nairobidesign_]

Nairobi Design Week returns under the theme: Let’s Be Human.

Mark your calendars for another gathering of Nairobi Design Week citizens!

🪄 Nairobi Design Week 2026
📅 March 7-15, 2026
📍 Visit Ngara | Alliance Française Nairobi | Diba Studios| Goethe-Institut Nairobi

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How to Apply: https://t.co/dgcKExNaHu

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🚀 Call for a Creative Artist w/ technical skills to collaborate on early-stage interactive GenAI. Work w/ ML engineers + disability advocacy groups to build immersive “day-in-the-life” AI experiences.

👥Eligible: PhD students, faculty & non-academic creatives.

📅Apply by Dec 2

[Microsoft Research @MSFTResearch]

Announcing the 2026 Microsoft Research Fellowship, a program that creates opportunities for faculty, PhD students, and postdocs to collaborate with Microsoft Research on open research challenges that advance science and benefit society. Submit proposals by Dec 2: https://t.co/9WKfiFYtjw

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#AHLVenturePartners is hiring a Data & Automation Analyst 3-month contract, (with possible 6-month extension) Nairobi.

🗓️ Apply by 17 Nov 2025 → https://t.co/7h6oa4iswN

📄 Read more in the attached document for full details.

#DataAnalytics #TechCareers

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

You wake up at 5AM not to build hospitals, not to fix roads, not to feed children .
But to wrap Parliament in wire like a crime scene.
You barricade the city like you’re under siege. But the only thing you’re hiding from is the truth.

You don’t fear bandits. You don’t fear cartels. You don’t fear the murderers in government.
You fear the teacher who speaks out. The youth who stands up. The mother who says ‘enough.’
That’s who you fear. Because you know ; once the people wake up, you can’t govern them with lies anymore.

[Wanjiku Reports @WanjikuReports]

The #SiriNiNumbers #Justice4OurMashujaa protests in pictures 📸

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Kenyan police cornered peaceful protesters in a blocked alley, beat them up, then teargassed them.

"Larry ukienda tutauliwa," one of them said. "If you leave, we'll get killed."

Police brutality during protests against police brutality

[Ike Ojuku @IkeOjuku]

Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU)- leaving Allsops GSU camp headed to Town, Nairobi CBD via @Georgeson_ #June25th

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

The @LawSocietyofKe has secured conservatory orders suspending the punitive, arbitrary and illegal directive by the @CA_Kenya. The Authority must forthwith reinstate all signals it has shut down on account of their unconstitutional directive. Contempt of this order will be met with full prosecution of the leadership of CA.

@AGOfficeKenya @KTNNewsKE @citizentvkenya @ntvkenya

[The Eastleigh Voice @Eastleighvoice]

A protester hiding inside a dustbin around Agha Khan Walk, Nairobi, lights a candle as he expresses his frustrations following running battles between them and police.

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

These are people. These are Kenyans!
#SiriNiNumbers #June25th

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

Kenyans are like the French as far as protests are concerned

#SiriNiNumbers 🇰🇪

[Cornelius K. Ronoh @itskipronoh]

The People SHALL... No one has ever witnessed anything like this since the beginning of this country. #SiriNiNumbers

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@yvi_pipey Well noted.

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Ai4Innov is launching a short research project to understand the daily lives, pain points, opportunities and attitudes towards technology of low-income residents in Nairobi from boda riders and micro traders, to domestic workers and jua-kali youth. Think ethnographic immersions

[Ian Wafula @Ian_Wafula]

They were just sitting by the roadside when police came for them. I kept filming. @BBCAfrica

[The Informer Media Group @Informer_ke]

A mammoth crowd of peaceful youth protesters pour into the streets at Thindigua along Kiambu Road heading to Nairobi’s CBD to commemorate Gen Z first anniversary. https://t.co/bk8WhCTdMz Nairobi CBD Holy Family Basilica Moi Avenue

[DciJuja @dcijuja]

If this appears in your timeline just RETWEET widely

[Naimatapei Wangari Gitau @naimatapeigitau]

THERE'S GOONS AROUND KOJA
THERE'S GOONS AROUND KOJA
THERE'S GOONS AROUND KOJA
They're stealing and some have knives
Tumekimbizwa na some of them until a soldier let us in in some building 😭😭
#RutoMustGo #SiriNiNumbers

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Every Nation in History has a Generation that towers above. For Kenya, our Gen Z is our GREATEST GENERATION … We were brought up to put our TRIBE ABOVE NATION … Our GEN Z was brought up to put NATION ABOVE TRIBE … Humbled to be alive when GEN Z raised our FLAG HIGH! #June25th

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📝 Send your proposal to: [email protected]
📅 Timeline: 5 weeks
📍 Nairobi-based

Attached is the RFQ for more details.

#IkoKaziKE

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and contextual interviews to uncover the needs and opportunities for the target audience.

If you’re a UX researcher or design consultant with a human-first approach and on-the-ground Nairobi experience, this is for you. 👇