Thuso Mbedzi
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Beitbridge, Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe
Toptal member since February 14, 2018
Thuso designs extraordinarily clean interfaces for web and mobile products, condensing over five active years—and over 10,000 hours—of user experience design spent helping awesome clients from Africa, America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. He's excited to help you, too.
Portfolio
Scoopo
Experience
- Digital Product Design - 9 years
- UX Branding - 9 years
- Responsive Web Design (RWD) - 9 years
- Mobile App Design - 8 years
- UX Design - 7 years
- Web UX Design - 7 years
- Prototyping - 6 years
- Figma Prototyping - 4 years
Tools
- Figma Prototyping
Work Experience
Product Designer
Dose Medbox
- Helped redefine the visual language of Dose Medbox's iOS app, centered on healthcare of giving meds for oneself and family. Improved usability while enhancing aesthetics, resulting in marked improvement in user satisfaction.
- Developed an entirely new visual identity, working very closely with the CEO/founder to build an interface that felt modern, easy to use, and highly memorable.
- Engineered a dynamic design assets and components library and maintained it to ensure that the building of new compositions could be accelerated, providing high quality and high usability throughout.
- Created custom graphics to implement and enhance the visual language while maintaining clarity and purpose throughout the mobile application's ecosystem.
Independent Remote UX Designer
Toptal Projects
- Provided UX audits, UX design, UX consultation, branding, front-end web design, and graphic design.
- Placed emphasis on reduced complexity, decluttering UX processes, and keeping a bare-bones approach so that future work can be carried out as seamlessly as possible.
- Kept all communication and all digital assets strictly private and confidential.
- Created, rapidly updated, and used design system libraries with version control to drive design for a harmonious experience across all platforms.
- Worked with notable recent Toptal clients including Dormzi and Anitashousekeeping.
Owner/Independent UX Architect and Front-end Engineer
Mbedzi.com
- Featured on Behance Graphic Design Gallery for my branding work: http://bit.ly/2fTzPto.
- Featured on Behance Adobe Illustrator Gallery for my branding work: http://bit.ly/2fTzPto.
- Featured on UpLabs Shot of the Day and Debut Shot for landing page animation: http://bit.ly/2BId8Rc.
- Featured in Muzli Animation Weekly Gallery for animation of a mobile interface: http://bit.ly/2CuyiaG.
- Awarded "Website of the Day" for the design work done on http://goldtree.co.za on December 22, 2014. The link is http://bit.ly/2nxF0lX.
- Nominated for the CSS Light Website of the Day for design work done for http://goldtree.co.za: http://bit.ly/2CgzKJv, December 22, 2014.
User Experience Design Consultant
Majid Al Futtaim
- Worked on building standalone products as part of a larger ecosystem of an aggregate leading-edge AI-powered voice-driven interface. This involved stakeholder insights, benchmarking, ideation, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes.
- Designed an AI-driven, voice-powered mobile eCommerce product. This involved stakeholder insights, benchmarking, ideation, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes.
- Reimagined the onboarding flows for key products within an AI-powered cutting software solution.
Lead Designer
HealthPlanUSA
- Headed branding, brochure, and responsive web design.
- Created an 8-page vibrant marketing brochure to support our onboarding efforts. After conducting user research and brainstorming with the team, we built our user persona, set up a mood board in InVision, and got to work.
- Kept our product as simple as possible to circumvent the frustrations most users reported experiencing when dealing with healthcare platforms.
- Created brochure wireframes in UXPin, validated, and then designed in Adobe InDesign.
Contract Lead UX Designer
OmniArsenal
- Designed a responsive web experience for NayaLabs as the Senior Designer for the long-term contract.
- Initially built wireframes in UXPin, then used Sketch to build a vibrant mockup. We briefly utilized Figma, and the Principle for macOS became the prototyping tool of choice.
- Created the illustration on the go while also working on creating a harmonious experience from web to mobile within a contracted delivery period.
- Formulated brand new visual guidelines to ensure that they cohered with the ideals of the business.
Contracted Lead UX Designer for NayaLabs
JamboQuote
- Created a B2C portal for car insurance quotes for users.
- Handled responsive web design for a consistent desktop and mobile experience.
- Built the car insurance quote form in such a way that it felt responsive to user input while not being too obtrusive.
- Developed a bespoke visual language that could aggressively tie in with the ideal user persona and business goals.
Remote Lead UX Designer
NayaLabs
- Served as the lead designer and UX consultant on a wide range of mobile and web apps helping build them up from inception to shipped product.
- Contributed to a number of tasks including project roadmaps, user research, market research, user flow diagrams, workflow diagrams, user personas, wireframes, mockups, prototyping, and developer handover.
- Ensured extremely high-quality products were created and gathered constant feedback from focus groups with the sole intent of ensuring success in launching the products.
- Helped build digital products that spanned from finance-related fields to diverse ones, as the lead designer.
Independant Lead UX Designer (via Toptal)
Dormzi
- Designed the user experience from the ground up, from ideation to the final prototypes.
- Developed a unique visual design language that would resonate very well with our mostly younger University student users.
- Created custom graphics that would tie in very well with the mobile experience.
- Managed scope creep effectively and ensured that we stuck to the core features so that we could launch our platform on time in such a way that it would be immediately intuitive to use.
UX Designer
Ideaing
- Designed the user experience and high-fidelity mockups for a large Amazon product curation web portal.
- Designed the mobile (UX) for key pages, including the home page, landing pages, product listing pages, product details pages, information pages, and contact pages.
- Created over 50 vector custom icons in Adobe Illustrator and refined them constantly to reflect the portal's evolution.
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
National University of Science and Technology - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Advanced Diploma in Advanced Computer Databases and Networking
City and Guilds London Institute - Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Certifications
Learning Art Direction
What Is Generative AI?
After Effects 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
UX Deep Dive: Mapping
ProtoPie for UX Design
Agile Foundations
Advanced Design Patterns: Design Principles
Skills
Tools
Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 4, Zeplin, Dreamweaver 2018, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Illustrator to HTML, Figma Prototyping, UXPin, Photoshop 2018, Mailchimp, Sketch, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects, Principle, Adobe Photoshop, MindNode, Slack, Zoom, Skype, Tasklist, Photoshop CC, Framer X, Proto.io, ProtoPie
Platforms
Web, Figma, Android, iOS, WordPress, Google Ads, MacOS, Webflow, iOS 11, Webflow CMS
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Education, Restaurants & Dining, Fitness, Health & Wellness, Hospitality, Transportation & Shipping
Languages
CSS, HTML, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Other
Visual Design, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), UX Branding, Prototyping, User Interface (UI), Design Principles, User Experience (UX), User Journey Maps, Delivery Management, Social Media Apps, Redesign, Digital Product Design, User Flows, Task Flows, Site Speed Optimization, Sports Websites, Newsletter Design, PSD to HTML, PSD to Mailchimp, Sketch to HTML, Logo Design, Letterhead Design, Stationery Design, Magazine Layout Design, Magazine Cover Design, Responsive UI, Responsive Design, Responsive Layout, Responsive Web Apps, Responsive UX Design, Web App UX, Web App Design, Responsive, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web App UI, UX Design, Web Design, Mobile App Design, Mobile App UI, iOS UI Design, iOS App Design, iOS UX Design, UI Design, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Systems Analysis, System Design, Social, Social Marketplaces, Mobile Design, Android App Design, Booking UX, UX Review, Web UX Design, Web UI Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), High-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Prototypes, Lean Startups, MVP Design, Pitch Decks, UI Prototyping, UX Wireframes, User Experience Design, Website Design, Color Theory, Graphic Design, Voice Interface, Voice UI Design, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), iOS Design Guidelines, Dashboard Design, Mockups, User Research, Front-end, WordPress Design, Rapid Sketching, Illustration, Branding, eCommerce, B2B, B2C, Project Management, Product Design, Mood Boards, User Personas, User Journeys, Google AdSense, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), PSD to WordPress, Sketch to WordPress, SaaS Design, Responsive Coding, Trading Applications, Data Visualization, Web Dashboards, Dashboards, Design Systems, Questionnaires, Scrum, Agile Sprints, Design Sprints, Google Design Sprints, Marketplaces, Gamification, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Enterprise SaaS, Healthcare Software, User Testing, Task Scheduling, Apps, Booking, On-demand, iPhone, iPhone X, UX Flows, UX Research, Planning, Smart Contracts, Time Management, Time Tracking, Reports, Event Calendars, Calendars, Team Scheduling, Scheduling, Ideation, eCommerce Design, eCommerce UX, Curation, Landing Page Design, Wireframing, Landing Page Optimization, B2C Marketing, Personal Care, Celebrities & Influencers, Minimalism, Medical Software, Consulting, Brand Logos, Vector Logos, Research, Analysis, Design Libraries, Financial Reporting Dashboards, Notion, Agile Software Development, Software Development, Microsoft Teams, Networking, Motion Logo Design, Motion Design, Figma to Webflow, Web UX, App UX, Art Direction, Image Generation, Design Patterns, Design-driven Development (D3), Agile, Agile UX, Agile Delivery, Agile Coaching, Motion AI, Mapping, UX Management, Brainstorming, Ideation Workshops, Photography, Data, Big Data UX Design
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