Charles Emmanuel

Conversion-Driven Designer💻 | Bachelor’s in Physics | I help teams ship intuitive, high-impact products | Top AJ fan 🥊....... Drawing rectangles is fun 😎

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

Happy to Announce! 🥳 👏

Today, I attended the product unveiling Cashblast at Radisson Blu
A product I’ve been fortunate to work on as a Product Designer.

To me, Cashblast is more than just a product; it's a solution to a significant cultural and legal challenge in Nigeria.

[Teejay👲👲 @OlafisoyeAdetu2]

TabSave helps you save a session, keep its version history, and roll back anytime. No account, no cloud.
Try it: https://t.co/r6mgdF1Vmw

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

On today’s episode of grateful for solid people in my corner.

Yesterday, April 7th 2026, made it exactly one year since I met @TheRuqayyah Yaro and @OlafisoyeAdetu2 at Omniretail.

Funny how some workplaces give you more than just experience, they give you solid people.

Beyond being great people, they’re honestly two of the best designers I’ve ever worked with. What started as just being colleagues quickly turned into real friendships. The kind where you can talk about work, growth, frustrations, random ideas… and still pick up the conversation days later like nothing changed.

One year later, still grateful for them. Some colleagues become friends.

These ones stuck.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

I’m starting to enjoy the part after the design.

Last week at @devanddesignhq 's Design2MVP session, we built a simple To-Do app using Antigravity, deployed it to GitHub, and hosted it live on Vercel.

Nothing fancy. Just a basic To-Do app.
But it was built, pushed, and shipped.
The more I learn this workflow, the more I understand how quickly ideas can move from concept to something usable.

Live link: https://t.co/e9svNWByLU

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There’s a new wave of designers emerging, the ones that do not stop at Figma.

In a bid to better understand GitHub, Antigravity, and Vercel, I reached out to a friend, @0xsherifdev
We jumped on a quick session, and he walked me through things practically:
•⁠ ⁠Cloning a GitHub project to my laptop
•⁠ ⁠Pushing and deploying to my own GitHub repo
•⁠ ⁠Adding collaborators
•⁠ ⁠Making projects public vs private
•⁠ ⁠Hosting the project on Vercel

For context, Sherif is someone I’ve worked with on different projects in the past. He’s a full-stack developer and a DevOps engineer and honestly, he’s one of a kind.

Still early in my @devanddesignhq’s Design2MVP journey, but moments like this are helping me connect the dots faster.
Grateful for solid people in my corner.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

Week 1 into @devanddesignhq's Design2MVP course and we’re already building.
We started by setting up the foundation:
•⁠ ⁠Installed Node.js
•⁠ ⁠Set up GitHub
•⁠ ⁠Created a Vercel account
•⁠ ⁠Got familiar with popular AI tools, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek
Then we didn’t stop there…
We built a basic To-Do List app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powered by Antigravity.
This is a different shift for me.
Moving from just designing interfaces to actually bringing ideas to life.
Still early, but I can already see how this changes my workflow:
Think → Design → Build → Test
And we’re just getting started.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

@DesignedbyVo No whining shall be tolerated here abeg 🤲😂

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

It’s already April 4… but still, Happy New Month.

Q2 is here, & I’m focusing on execution!

Learning faster. Building more. Shipping ideas instead of just thinking about them.
Already started the quarter deep in a new learning phase, & I can tell this month will be different.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

I enjoyed working with team Pen Rebels 👏 ❤️

[This is Katt 🐱 @designercathy_]

We explored how design can shift a moment from something you watch to something you feel.

Check our campaign concept here: https://t.co/CDCw95x979

Was nice working with @DesignedbyVo @Kiloh97 @ChizzyHemperor

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

Now it’s Q2, and I’m switching gears.
I enrolled in @devanddesignhq Design2MVP course with @Joe_brendan_

Diving into vibe coding & learning how to move from design to functional MVPs faster.
The goal this quarter is simple:
Design it. Build it. Ship it.
New quarter. New skill.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

Q1 ended with me earning my illustration certificate from @designwithchike . ✅

8 weeks of slowing down, paying attention to curves, stroke weights, spacing, and actually building illustrations from scratch. Glad I committed to it.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

@DesignedbyVo @designwithchike For where? 😂
I’m still learning….

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” - Genesis 1:3

Part of last week’s DWC (Week 3) task was to recreate this lamp illustration.

- The yellow background image was the reference.
- The black-and-white version without text is my sketch……

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

That moment when understanding clicks after struggling with anchor points and stroke weights.

Inspiration credit: Catherine Effiom

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But I decided to take it a step further.
Instead of stopping at replication, I added a human element, a man standing under the beam, hands lifted, screaming “Let there be light.”
For me, it symbolized more than just lighting up a canvas. It represents growth. Clarity……

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

Happy New Month ✨

New month. New targets. Same discipline.
May this month reward consistency, sharpen our skills, and bring clarity to the things we’re building.

Let’s execute. 👏

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

Week 4… but let’s rewind to Week 1.
Finally sharing some of my very first @designwithchike tasks. The illustrations I was able to create after just one week of learning the basics.
Simple shapes. Clean strokes.
Posting this as a reminder that every new skill starts somewhere.

[Sherifdeen @0xsherifdev]

Linnked. I reimagined the lost art of handwritten letters as a typewriter-powered digital interaction.

Type it. Customize it. Sign it. Share it. Then watch your recipient open a sealed envelope and see your words type themselves out, one keystroke at a time.

Built entirely in @figma Make.

Design assets by @_theboygenius_
🔗 https://t.co/1wffTy4xGY

#FigmaMakeathon

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

That shift from “Where can I find this?, How do I tweak this?” to “I can create this.” is powerful.

Attached below:
• The reference image
• My sketch
• How I used it in the final design

Still early. Still learning.
But this right here is why I decided to invest in the skill.

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

For the longest time, whenever I was working on a project and needed an illustration, the process was always the same:
Search. Scroll. Settle.

Either the perfect vector was premium and locked behind a paywall…
Or it was free but difficult to tweak exactly….

[Charles Emmanuel @ChizzyHemperor]

fit a splash screen I was designing. Normally, I would have either paid for it or tried to force it into my design.

This time, I studied it… sketched it… and illustrated my own version….