Product Design & Innovation

Most fintech products are built for the people who understand finance. I design for everyone else.

Senior Product Designer with 10+ years turning dense data and financial complexity into interfaces people actually trust. Clients include rain, Black Swan Data, and xneelo.

I’ve worked in;

Payments and Banking, Public Transport Data, Market Research Data, Web-Hosting, e-Commerce and Venture Funding

I love designing products with;

Figma, OptimalWorkshop, ZeroHeight, StoryBook, Miro and Github

FIgma
Optimal Workshop
Miro
Github

Previous Work

Client
Securitease

Challenge: Transform a feature factory into a research-led product team — while rebuilding the design system

Year
2024-2026

https://www.securitease.com/

SecuritEase builds mission-critical software for stockbrokers, investment banks, and wealth managers — but had no research practice, no product strategy, and a design culture that rewarded novelty over usability. I ran two parallel tracks: building a research framework from nothing and rebuilding the design system on Microsoft Fluent. Getting a room full of industry experts to say "I don't know, let's find out" was the real milestone.

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Client
BlackSwan Data

Challenge: Create a market research platform for Fortune 500 companies in the CPG market

Year
2023 - 2024

https://blackswan.com/

Black Swan Data needed to scale its research tools into a self-service platform. Researchers were overwhelmed by billions of conversations across social channels and needed a way to surface trends quickly.

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Client
xneelo

Challenge: Create a new web-hosting platform

Year
2021 - 2023

https://xneelo.co.za/

Xneelo wanted to expand beyond the Hetzner ecosystem and launch a new hosting platform with modern UX standards. The challenge: a legacy user base familiar with old flows + a new audience expecting intuitive cloud experiences.

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Client
rain

Challenge: Create a new Design System for the first 5G, All-Data network in Africa

Year
2019 - 2020

https://www.rain.co.za/

rain wanted to launch the first 5G, All-Data network in Africa. The challenge: introduce something new and never seen before by building a design system that emphasises trust with minimal noise and frictionless experiences.

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Client
whereismytransport

Challenge: Develop a solution for public transport data in the 3rd world.

Year
2019 - 2020

No longer operating

WIMT wanted to help commuters in 3rd-world countries get fast and accurate data about public transport. The challenge of serving that data quickly meant we had to take a few steps back from what the rest of the world wanted for them.

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Client
Mamma Money

Challenge: Research and Design a better way to send money home.

Year
2018 - 2019

https://www.mamamoney.co.za/

Mamma Money wanted to connect with more customers to send money home. They needed some help guiding users through the process and heling them ensure their money gets home to their loved ones.

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Previous Projects