
Zelswa Bezuidenhout
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Toptal member since October 27, 2022
Zelswa is a product designer with three years of experience creating inclusive UX products with carefully designed user interfaces. She has worked with numerous clients, including Polo and Yoyo. Zelswa prioritizes business needs along with aligning business requirements with user goals.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead Product Designer
Playbook
- Conducted user interviews with 10+ candidates to gain a better understanding of our target audience in order to improve the existing product.
- Created the buying personas and user journeys based on the data gathered from the user research/interviews.
- Aligned with the product manager/s to discuss necessary improvements for the platform and then created UX wireframes that were presented to the team.
- Contributed to UX reviews that were conducted where the design team aligned with the developers to ensure that the required design changes were made and implemented correctly.
Product Designer
Yoyo
- Designed the primary responsive web interface for Yoyo Gifts.
- Collaborated with the product manager during the research and discovery phase of a B2B pay-at-table solution for restaurants and handled the UI for this .mobi website.
- Expanded the functionality of Bootlegger Coffee Company's website and maintained its UI.
- Reevaluated and improved the user experience of an existing application by introducing new features to ensure the application exceeded user expectations.
- Maintained Yoyo's existing design system used by its product designers to ensure consistency across various applications.
- Revisited Waitomo's UI and implemented a more playful approach to the UI as requested by the client.
- Created and maintained the design system for a B2B pay-at-table solution for restaurants.
UX Designer
Jack
- Conducted user interviews and assisted developers working on a B2B product.
- Created user journeys and wireframes based on user research.
- Contributed to the responsive web UI design for Sploot, a SaaS product that provides booking services in the pet grooming industry.
UI Designer
Proferizon IT
- Assisted in modernizing the company's existing branding.
- Created a sophisticated UI for an application that educates users about wildlife and allows them to donate to a lion sanctuary.
- Improved a client's existing WordPress website by reevaluating the UI.
- Collaborated on infographics to improve the external client's website.
- Gained Photoshop experience by adding branding elements to photos to make the company more noticeable.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Interaction Design
Open Window - Centurion, South Africa
Skills
Tools
Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator CC, Miro, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Experience Design (XD), InDesign CC, Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, Confluence
Platforms
Figma, iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Mobile, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Restaurants & Dining
Other
UI Design, UX Wireframes, User Feedback, Digital Solutions, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Product Design, Visual Design, Iconography, Mockups, Wireframing, UX Design, A/B Testing, User Journeys, Presentation Design, Customer Loyalty, QR Codes, Online Payments, Clients, Smart Devices, Mobile Payments, Design Systems, B2B, UX Documentation, Icon Design, Line Icons, Copywriting, Lean UX, Information Architecture (IA), Design Thinking, SaaS, Branding, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Gifting, Web Design, Interface Design, Responsive UI, Mobile App Design, Mobile Web Design, Interaction Design (IxD), User Experience Design, Client Interaction, Loyalty Applications, Enterprise Loyalty Programs, Applications, Mobile UI, Customer Experience, Tires, Business to Business (B2B), Loyalty Programs, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Credit Cards, Device Testing, System Design, User Interviews, Remote User Testing, User Research, Personas, User Flows, Sitemaps, Management
Experience
- Figma - 3 years
- UX Design - 3 years
- UX Wireframes - 3 years
- A/B Testing - 3 years
- User Journeys - 3 years
- Information Architecture (IA) - 3 years
- UI Design - 3 years
- Mobile App Design - 3 years
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