Discovery & Foundations Specialist
I'm a discovery specialist and product builder with over 10 years of experience in product design. I work at the intersection of customer research, AI-assisted prototyping, and team enablement, helping organisations figure out what to build, proving it works through hands-on experimentation, and teaching teams to do the same.
Currently at Yoco, I lead product discovery for the card machine range; going to the field to talk to merchants, mapping opportunities with solution trees, and building testable MVPs using tools like Lovable and Supabase. Outside of product work, I run The Ordinary Group, building infrastructure between education and employment through mentorship. I sit on the Industry Advisory Council for Red & Yellow's Post Graduate Diploma in User Centred Design, teach at The Sensemakers Club, and guest lecture at Mitra Academy. I've spoken at TEDx Pretoria, UX South Africa, Google I/O Extended, and several other conferences on learning, mentorship, and the evolving role of designers.

Discovery & Research
Customer interviews, opportunity mapping, continuous discovery practices, opportunity solution trees
Prototyping & Building
Full-stack MVP development with Lovable, Supabase, and AI-assisted tools. From database architecture to deployment
Workshops & Training
Hands-on team workshops on vibe coding, continuous discovery, and modern product development practices
Mentorship & Advisory
Curriculum design, case study design, Guest lecturing and industry partnership architecting.
Product Designer
Yoco
July 2024 - Present

Entrepreneur / Founder
The Ordinary Group
July 2023 - Present

Product Designer
IoT.nxt
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Product Designer @ Absa Bank
Freethinking
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
User Experience Designer
King James Digital
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
Framer
Figma
Bolt
Lovable
Claude
Supabase
Vercel
V.0
ChatGPT
Claude
Google docs
Notion
Loops
Paystack

Industry Advisory Council Member
Red & Yellow Creative School of Business
Nov 2025 - Present

Instructor In Residence
The Sensemakers Club
November 2023 - Present

Curriculum Design & Teaching
Shaper
2024
Speaking

TEDx
Self-Directed Learning
Pretoria

UXDX
Mentorship in tech
EMEA (Onine)
UX South Africa
User Experience Design
Johannesburg, ZA

Google I/O Extended
Google Products
Pretoria, ZA

Cosac
Cyber Security
Melbourne, AUS
UX Healthcare
User experience
London, UK
Level Up RR.Conf '24
Retro Rabbit Conference
Pretoria, ZA
Node JS One
NodeJS Conference
Johannesburg, ZA
I Code Java
Java Conference
Johannesburg, ZA
Makesensemess
Information architecture
Remote conference








