Adaugo Akaluso

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Creative Presentation 01  /  about
Hello, I'm
Adaugo

introduction

I design things people actually want to use — then I build them. My work lives where a discipline meets technology: design + tech, product + tech, marketing + tech. The pairing changes; the instinct doesn't.

I start with the person on the other side of the screen and reason backward to the system that serves them. Research, prototype, ship, listen, repeat — keeping the craft honest and the outcome human.

— Human-centered — Multidisciplinary — Ships things
Selected work 02  /  work

Featured — STAN

Everyday, Everywhere — Create: an elevated creator-merch line & campaign for Stan

TypeBrand & product campaign concept
RoleSelf-initiated — product design, brand & campaign strategy
Deliverable7-part creator-merch campaign & product concept
Date2024
StatusConcept for the Stan Merch Lead application — speculative proposal, not affiliated with Stan

Cards marked “Read case study →” open a full write-up.

01Product + tech

Sweat Alliance

Productized an internal assessment framework into a paid monthly workshop series — owned it concept to launch. ~1 year live at ~70% capacity, +30% repeat attendance.

2024Read case study
02Marketing + tech

Content Engine

An AI content system for LifestyleOS that reverse-engineers finished videos into research-validated, post-ready packages — hooks, captions, SEO tags & cross-platform repurpose plans, wired into Notion.

2026Case study in progress

Nothing under that lens yet — try another.

Selected concepts Self-initiated  /  licensing

Product design × brand

PAC‑MAN × Lifestyle — “POWER UP”

45th-anniversary legacy capsule: 16 SKU concepts across apparel, accessories, home & collectibles — tiered $16–$75 across an omni-channel retail plan.

Self-initiated concept · 2026 · not affiliated with Bandai Namco

Product design × brand

NCAA — “Court to Street”

Premium collegiate athleisure built for the “Lululemon gap” — school-neutral palette, minimal-logo apparel & accessories, $18–$88, for students and alumni.

Self-initiated concept · 2026 · IMG Licensing application

Corporate work In-house  /  NEOGOV, VMware
03Design + tech

NEOGOV

Research-led redesign of a broken account flow — repositioned key actions in the interaction sequence, measured by click-through and conversion. ~30% lift in product usage.

2021
04Strategy + tech

VMware Tanzu

Replaced a 24-hour email reporting loop with self-serve Power BI dashboards — the same insights in under 2 minutes. 720× faster, self-taught on the job.

2022
What I bring 03  /  skills

personal skills

Four practices, one throughline: keep the human in the loop and the work shippable. Pick a lens and I'll bring the rest.

Design

Human-centered product design, interaction & prototyping, and design systems that hold up as teams grow.

Engineering

Front-end and design-to-code — I take a prototype the last mile so ideas survive contact with production.

Marketing

Brand, positioning, go-to-market and content — making the story as considered as the product.

Strategy

Research, product strategy and prioritisation — deciding what's worth building before we build it.

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