Thabo Mbuyisa
Product/Experience Designer
Berlin, Germany
(+49)15207227051
elaborate.studio
Technologist:// A drive that pushes me to learn new technologies.
Dreamer:// The source of my vivid imagination of the future.
Maker:// I love making stuff, whether it be Art out of scraps or a slick app.
Dreamer:// The source of my vivid imagination of the future.
Maker:// I love making stuff, whether it be Art out of scraps or a slick app.
Work Experience
Elaborate Studio
Co-Founder | Senior Product Designer
A design and technology group that partners with clients across global industry to craft elaborate design solutions that give businesses and brands an innovative edge. At the core of our business there is a mastery of design and technology that transforms businesses, big and small for the future.
September 2020
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Germany
IDNow GmbH
Technical Designer
Technical Interface Design work as a contractor for IDNow with duties limited to:
• Pitching projects for various clients ADAC, Commerzbank, and more
• User testing Identification Systems
• Maintenance of the internal applications Design System
• Pitching projects for various clients ADAC, Commerzbank, and more
• User testing Identification Systems
• Maintenance of the internal applications Design System
February 2022
- December 2022
Germany
株式会社Speakbuddy
UI/UX Designer (Contract)
My responsibilities included:
- UX Design concepts for internal software applications
- Conducting user and market research for the QA App initiative; a B2C crowd-sourced language-learning application for the Japanese market
- Designing prototypes for user-testing sessions with language teachers and students in the Japanese market
- Designing the QA app interface elements and components and working with the engineering teams to implement it.
- Presenting UI solutions to stakeholders and demonstrating how they would work in a production enviroment.
- UX Design concepts for internal software applications
- Conducting user and market research for the QA App initiative; a B2C crowd-sourced language-learning application for the Japanese market
- Designing prototypes for user-testing sessions with language teachers and students in the Japanese market
- Designing the QA app interface elements and components and working with the engineering teams to implement it.
- Presenting UI solutions to stakeholders and demonstrating how they would work in a production enviroment.
February 2021
- March 2022
Tokyo, Japan
MEDWING GmbH
Platform Product Designer
Designing and maintaining the flagship hospital-staffing platform solution, from:
- Conducting internal stakeholder user-interviews
- Market needs research
- Prototyping with the sourcing and placement staff
- Liaising with the Client-facing and Consumer-facing teams to interface with our platform data-pool
- Visualising large data-sets for Sourcing and Placement teams to help make them more efficient in their day-to-day tasks
- Designing integrated UI micro-frontends for other Medwing staffing tools.
- Creating and maintaining the platform UI design-system
- Conducting internal stakeholder user-interviews
- Market needs research
- Prototyping with the sourcing and placement staff
- Liaising with the Client-facing and Consumer-facing teams to interface with our platform data-pool
- Visualising large data-sets for Sourcing and Placement teams to help make them more efficient in their day-to-day tasks
- Designing integrated UI micro-frontends for other Medwing staffing tools.
- Creating and maintaining the platform UI design-system
November 2019
- December 2021
Germany
Data Donate Technologies
Senior User Interface Designer (Contract)
Saas product and data tokenization software interface design for the Data Donate platform.
My responsibilities included:
- UX-research and conducting product feasibility studies
- Designing product and user flows that help translate the platform architecture into efficient interface elements
- Designing the User interface components for the Data Management and Datavault applications
My responsibilities included:
- UX-research and conducting product feasibility studies
- Designing product and user flows that help translate the platform architecture into efficient interface elements
- Designing the User interface components for the Data Management and Datavault applications
July 2020
- January 2021
New York, United States
Nutanix GmbH
Contract UIUX designer
As a technical product designer at Nutanix, I worked together with the experienced IT Research and development teams to craft UI/UX solutions for the various in-house products that leveraged flagship Nutanix AHV Hypervisor platform for on-premise server management.
My role included:
- Synthesising field and customer research to come up with User Flows that improved the efficiency of IT managers in various industries when setting up and using Nutanix solutions on the AHV Platform.
- Conceptualising and designing User Interface solutions that leveraged the configurable flexibility of the AHV platform to provide tailored product experiences for IT managers and Infrastructure Engineers.
- Solving internal system configuration challenges that affected the overall Nutanix Platform experience by coming up with creative User Interface solutions.
- Leveraging my experience designing Enterprise Applications for the public and private cloud, to help come up with creative solutions for Nutanix Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS) and Cloud-native IT solutions that used the flagship AHV product offering.
My role included:
- Synthesising field and customer research to come up with User Flows that improved the efficiency of IT managers in various industries when setting up and using Nutanix solutions on the AHV Platform.
- Conceptualising and designing User Interface solutions that leveraged the configurable flexibility of the AHV platform to provide tailored product experiences for IT managers and Infrastructure Engineers.
- Solving internal system configuration challenges that affected the overall Nutanix Platform experience by coming up with creative User Interface solutions.
- Leveraging my experience designing Enterprise Applications for the public and private cloud, to help come up with creative solutions for Nutanix Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS) and Cloud-native IT solutions that used the flagship AHV product offering.
October 2019
- March 2020
Germany
FIXER Technologies Inc.
Product Design Lead
As a Product Design Lead at Fixer, I am involved in the inception, planning and execution of the company's B2B Flagship Cloud-Based enterprise solutions.
My responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Conducting product feasibility studies based on User & Market research
- Conceptualising and creating problem/solution analyses based on user research
- Designing and prototyping various product solutions and presenting to business stakeholders
- Collaborating with technical and business strategy teams in implementing the most fitting solution.
- Designing and maintaining UI Design Systems for the various in-house products/concepts.
My responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Conducting product feasibility studies based on User & Market research
- Conceptualising and creating problem/solution analyses based on user research
- Designing and prototyping various product solutions and presenting to business stakeholders
- Collaborating with technical and business strategy teams in implementing the most fitting solution.
- Designing and maintaining UI Design Systems for the various in-house products/concepts.
February 2018
- September 2019
Tokyo, Japan
FiNC 株式会社
Experience Designer
As a Technologist and Designer with a User Experience focus at FiNC, I am tasked with the creation of the visual design and usability direction of the flagship health, lifestyle and fitness app.
Within the Creative Team my work fluctuates between visual design and front-end development for Web, Mobile and IOT interactive experiences.
Within the Creative Team my work fluctuates between visual design and front-end development for Web, Mobile and IOT interactive experiences.
February 2017
- January 2018
Tokyo, Japan
Caracri-Works カラクリワークス株式会社
UI/Front-End Developer Contract
UI design and Front-end development of desktop and mobile applications within the local Japanese market.
UX research for the web and design lead.
UX research for the web and design lead.
February 2016
- February 2017
Japan
Identity Lab
Web Designer
Web and Graphic design on the Wordpress platform.
Plugin development, website and database maintenance.
Plugin development, website and database maintenance.
August 2014
- January 2015
Netherlands
DSTV
Digital Designer
Front End Digital Designer within the DStv Catch Up/Video on Demand (VOD) portfolio including Web and App design for the mobile entertainment experience.
May 2011
- June 2014
South Africa
University Of Johannesburg
CMS Assistant
Uploading and maintenance of Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) inter-campus editorial content.
December 2010
- January 2011
Johannesburg, South Africa
Education
University Of Johannesburg
Btech. Multimedia
デジタルインタラクティブデザインを中心としたマルチメディアの技術学士。
January 2009
- November 2012
South Africa
Human Factors International
Designing for Persuasion, Emotion & Trust
ユーザーエクスペリエンスデザイン
January 2012
- May 2012
Languages
Zulu (Native),
English (Fluent),
Portuguese (Fluent),
日本語 (Fluent),
Dutch (Fluent),
French (Advanced),
German (Conversational),
Afrikaans (Fluent),
Skills
Adobe After Effects,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Premier Pro,
CSS3,
Design Thinking,
Express.js,
Figma,
Flinto,
Framer,
Graphic Design,
Gulp.js,
HTML5,
Information Architecture,
InVision,
Invision Studio,
JavaScript,
Node.js,
SASS,
Sketch 3,
Sublime Text 3,
User Experience,
User Interface Design,
Userflows,