ABOUT ME

I’m a senior product designer working across insurance and financial services, currently embedded in the insurance team at Nedbank. Much of my work sits inside complex products where customer needs, business rules, regulation and technology all have to coexist. I work across mobile and web and own the design end to end, from problem framing and user flows through to interaction design, testing and detailed UI. A big part of that involves working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align different needs, navigate constraints, get the work shipped and keep improving it after launch.

Before design, my background was in Computer Science and Electronics. I found my way into UX while experimenting with e-commerce more than six years ago, becoming curious about how people make decisions, where they experience friction and how design can influence both. That curiosity eventually became a career in product design and still shapes how I approach problems today.

Lately, I’ve been pushing that relationship with technology a little further. I’m learning to build with AI and using personal projects as a way to experiment with development, agents and new ways of turning ideas into working products. I’m not trying to trade design for engineering. I’m interested in becoming a designer who understands more of what happens after the design is finished, can prototype with greater freedom and can take an idea much further before handing it over.

Outside of work, I’m preparing to pursue a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and spend probably too much time watching and playing football. I also design beyond product work, from branding and posters to AI explorations, to keep trying my hand at new things, and I’m making more room for writing and reading.