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SamuelMinistar

Product Designer, Developer, AI Enthusiast, Game Dev Explorer, Student of Skeuomorphic Design.

I design experiences that are fun, intuitive, and engaging — helping break complex processes into simple steps.

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FW × TTS Short Sleeve in white
FW × TTS₦34,000

Short Sleeve

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Based in Sandton, ZA · 20:19 SAST
Status Available for projects
Now Lead Product Designer @ Candleweb
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Worked with

  • Talk to Stino
  • Candleweb
  • Triverge Healthcare
  • Bricks and Keys
  • Quicrefill
  • FOS Holdings
  • Bytefi
  • SPIN
  • Vride

selected_work

Real products, shipped for real clients.

Every project has a full case study: the brief, the research, the flows, the design system and the build.

All projects
Talk to Stino — screenshot
Client · Fashion & streetwear · 2026 New AI-assisted Where AI was used The store was built with an AI coding assistant, directed from the PRD, the style guide and the Figma designs; the logo loader, the rack and the Shopify integration were specified, reviewed and tested that way. Why say so? Anthropic’s AI Fluency framework (opens in a new tab)

Talk to Stino

A headless Shopify store for a black-and-white Lagos streetwear brand, built around a clothing rack you can drag.

Candleweb — screenshot
Client · Fintech & crypto · 2024–present

Candleweb

CandleAI — an AI crypto-trading companion that trades around the clock while funds stay in the user's own exchange account.

Platform designWeb developmentMobile UI
Live site for Candleweb (opens in a new tab)
Triverge Healthcare — screenshot
Client · Healthcare · 2026 AI-assisted Where AI was used The site was built in Google Antigravity, an agentic coding IDE, from the PRD, style guide and task list — and it ships Alma, a care assistant that runs on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite. Why say so? Anthropic’s AI Fluency framework (opens in a new tab)

Triverge Healthcare

A warm, accessible website for an elderly-care provider in Ibadan, built around booking a consultation.

More work · 8 projects

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  • Quicrefill

    The website for Quicrefill — "Energy Delivered On-Demand".

    Client · Web development
  • Quicrefil App Design

    Mobile app design for Quicrefill's on-demand energy delivery.

    Client · Mobile UI
  • FOS Holdings

    Luxury accommodation and property investment at Embassy Towers, Sandton.

    Client · Web development
  • Bytefi

    A crypto wallet that trades, stores assets and spends through a virtual or physical card.

    Client · Mobile UI
  • BOA Ecommerce Gadgets Store

    A responsive gadgets storefront with product filtering and a working cart.

    Practice · Web development
  • Copy Color Converter

    A small tool that converts colours between HEX, RGB, HSL, HSB and CMYK and copies them in one click.

    Personal · Web development
  • Petals Pro UI

    A flower-delivery app: browse arrangements by category, add them to the bag and find florists nearby.

    Practice · Mobile UI
  • Avo House

    A desktop interface for a food-delivery business.

    Practice · Desktop UI

how_i_work

From a messy brief to a shipped product.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Talk to the people involved, look at what already exists and find what actually gets in the way.

    InterviewsAuditsMiro
    Who is it for? What do they need to get done? What gets in the way today? What already exists? What does success look like?
  2. 02

    Define

    Turn what I learned into user flows, a sitemap and one clear problem worth solving.

    User flowsSitemapsFigJam
    Need Browse Choose OK? Act Done
  3. 03

    Design

    Wireframes first, then a visual system — tokens, components and screens in Figma.

    WireframesDesign systemsFigma
  4. 04

    Build

    I code the design myself, so nothing gets lost between the file and the browser.

    HTML/CSS/JSReactNext.js
    // the design, now in the browser
    export function Card({ project }) {
      return html`
        <article class="card">
          <h3>${project.name}</h3>
          <p>${project.summary}</p>
        </article>`;
    }
  5. 05

    Ship

    Deploy, check it on real devices, hand it over with docs — then keep improving it.

    VercelNetlifyHandover docs

capabilities

A designer who codes. A developer who designs.

Bridging the gap between aesthetic design and functional code to create seamless digital experiences.

All skills
01

Design

  • UI Design
  • UX Design
  • Visual Design
  • Mobile Interface
  • Graphic Design
  • Logo Design

Used in 12 of 12 projects

02

Development

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js

Used in 8 of 12 projects

03

AI & Emerging Tech

  • AI Integration
  • Applied ML
  • AI Art Generation
  • Prompt Engineering

12 Anthropic certifications

04

Leadership & Strategy

  • Tech Leadership
  • Design Leadership
  • Strategic Planning
  • Growth Marketing
  • Circular Economy

5 leadership roles · CTO, CDO, Founder, Lead

design_systems

Systems, not screens.

I build the design system first — tokens, components, patterns — so every screen after it is faster to make and impossible to drift. Boring UI is mine: a mobile UI kit in Figma, 121 components in 5 sets.

  1. 01 · Tokens

    Five colours, one typeface in three weights, a six-step type scale and 16/24 px button padding — defined once, on a Definitions board.

  2. 02 · Components

    121 components in 5 sets: three Button sets of 30 variants each, small and icon buttons, a five-state date cell, and app headers.

  3. 03 · Patterns

    Text fields in every state, selects and date ranges, tags, checkboxes, toggles and sliders, list items, cards, tabs and navigation.

  4. 04 · Screens

    A crypto wallet, a sign-up form and a restaurant page, 390 px wide, built only from the parts — plus a deliberate “bad way” version.

Boring UI · Figma · 121 components · 5 sets · 97 variants

Primary#2C7FFASecondary#DCEAFFLight Grey#E1E1E1Medium Grey#999999Dark Grey#2C2C2C
Plus Jakarta SansRegular · Semi Bold · Bold
  • 20 Bold Heading
  • 16 Semi Bold Large text
  • 14 Semi Bold Medium text
  • 14 Regular Medium secondary
  • 12 Regular Small text
  • 12 Regular Navigation labels
Boring UI button sheet: three 30-variant sets in six colours and five shapes, with icon and search buttons
Boring UI list items, cards, tabs and navigation, and app-header components side by side
Three Boring UI example screens: a crypto wallet, an investment-app sign-up form and a restaurant page

by_the_numbers

By the numbers

10+ Years active
20+ Projects delivered
26 Certifications
8,200+ AI art pieces
29 Books on the shelf

Always learning.

Every certification, by the month it was earned — 26 since Oct 2018, 12 of them from Anthropic this year on Claude, MCP and agents.

All certifications

footprint

Lagos to Sandton, and online everywhere.

Where the work happened — study, clients and home base.

Samuel Ministar samuel.ministar · Sandton

about

Designer, developer, and the person in the middle.

I am Samuel Ministar — a designer who codes and a developer who designs. With over a decade immersed in technology, I've worn many hats: Chief Technology Officer, Chief Design Officer, Lead Product Designer, and Founder. I believe design should feel inevitable — like it couldn't have been any other way.

Experience10+ years
FocusProduct design & dev
LocationRemote / South Africa
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creative_works

Off the clock: photography, AI art and pixels.

8,200+ AI art pieces, a photography collection, composites and skeuomorphic studies.

Open the gallery
AI art — piece 1 by Samuel MinistarAI art — piece 2 by Samuel MinistarPhotography — piece 1 by Samuel MinistarPhotography — piece 2 by Samuel Ministar
UI design — piece 1 by Samuel MinistarUI design — piece 2 by Samuel MinistarPhoto composite — piece 1 by Samuel MinistarSkeuomorphic design — piece 1 by Samuel Ministar

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