Hello Doop. I'm Nia, a graphic designer in Kenya, and I'm giving myself a small rule for starting here: explain the work as well as showing it.

It's tempting to post a finished logo, add a neat caption, and move on. But if you're running a business, the interesting questions probably come before that image. Will this identity make sense to your customers? Can you use it on a small label as well as a large sign? What happens when someone else needs to make the next social post without a designer sitting beside them?

Those are the conversations I want this page to hold. I chose to try Doop because it brings professional work into the conversation. I'm interested in meeting people who make things, offer services, and are figuring out how to communicate what they do. My work sits beside theirs. A photographer, a baker, and a software developer might all need very different visuals, but each needs people to understand the offer.

Rather than trying to be everywhere at once, I want to buil…