Pamela King

Senior Product Designer, Old Mutual · Cape Town

Designing on the Old Mutual Design System across web, iOS and Android, including the rules for in-app product tours.

Co-founder and Design Engineer, JumpLab and BeOptimal · Cape Town

A venture lab that turns early ideas into working products. For BeOptimal I designed the brand, website and product, and built the front end.

Senior Product Designer and Design Engineer, RealFi · Remote

Led product design for a real-world-asset stablecoin on Cardano: the customer app, the admin platform, the design system and the brand.

Lead Experience Design Consultant, BlueSky · Johannesburg (hybrid)

Led a team of ten designers on Capitec’s Salesforce agent tools, specialising in fraud and financial crime, and managed the design system. Designed for the Absa Banking website and app. Line manager, and part of the pitch team.

Lead Design Consultant (part time), Wisemind · Remote

Products from research to MVP: MediUX, a medical practice management product, and a stokvel dashboard for Alliance Insurance. Also content strategy and the Wisemind brand and website.

Lead Product Designer, RubiTax (VatIT Ventures) · Tel Aviv (remote)

Design system, corporate identity and website, UX research and UI design.

Senior Service Designer, Praekelt.com (now Helm) · Johannesburg

UX, UI and service design for MTN’s agent dashboard.

Digital Designer and Copywriter, SuperUltra · Pretoria

Grew from junior to mid-level designer. CI, design strategy, service design and digital product design for Anglo American, PwC, Bidvest Bank, Absa, Nedbank and Standard Bank.

Founder, Absurd Bird Design Studio · Freelance

Brand, digital and product design for clients across many disciplines.

Design internships, FCB Africa, Timesquare Advertising, Run Jump Fly · Johannesburg

Design systems, product and UX/UI design, service design, interaction design, information architecture, brand identity and CI, prototyping

User interviews, usability testing, UX playbooks, wireframing, design thinking and the double diamond

React, TypeScript, design tokens, React Router, Playwright, Vercel, GitHub

Figma, Miro, Notion, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya, Salesforce

Led a team of ten designers, line management, pitches, mentoring

BA Information Design

University of Pretoria. Golden Key (top 15% across all degrees), top 6 for animation, top 10 for CI design.

General Psychology major

University of Pretoria

Product Strategy for Designers

Dive

Design for a Better World

IDxF

3D Animation

The Animation School