My name is Brad Stricker, a 31-year-old UX & UI (product) designer from Durban, South Africa. I have 10 years of experience, ranging in roles from South Africa, through to Germany, and having recently moved into a full time remote role. After 5 years of living and working in Munich, Germany, I have now returned to my African roots and am living in Gaborone, Botswana. --- **Employment and project experience** **Senior Product Designer** SmartPatient. _Dec 2019 - Nov 2022_ **Senior UX Designer** Workpath GmbH. _Jun 2019 - Nov 2019_

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My name is Brad Stricker, a 31-year-old UX & UI (product) designer from Durban, South Africa. I have 10 years of experience, ranging in roles from South Africa, through to Germany, and having recently moved into a full time remote role. After 5 years of living and working in Munich, Germany, I have now returned to my African roots and am living in Gaborone, Botswana. --- **Employment and project experience** **Senior Product Designer** SmartPatient. _Dec 2019 - Nov 2022_ **Senior UX Designer** Workpath GmbH. _Jun 2019 - Nov 2019_

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My name is Brad Stricker, a 31-year-old UX & UI (product) designer from Durban, South Africa. I have 10 years of experience, ranging in roles from South Africa, through to Germany, and having recently moved into a full time remote role.

After 5 years of living and working in Munich, Germany, I have now returned to my African roots and am living in Gaborone, Botswana.


Employment and project experience

Senior Product Designer SmartPatient.
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022

Senior UX Designer Workpath GmbH.
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

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Experience Level

Adobe After Effects
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Adobe XD
Expert
Figma
Expert
Product Design
Expert
UI
Expert
AI Data Labelling
Beginner
AI Collection (Audio)
Beginner

Language

English
Fluent
German
Beginner

Education

BA in Creative Brand Communications at Vega School
January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012
- Three-year undergraduate degree, with a focus on both the strategic and digital side of the creative industry. - Specialisation in Multimedia Design (Final year project focused on a six-month web app).
BA Honours in Brand Communication at Vega School
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013
- One year post-graduate degree, with a focus on strategy within the marketing and communications industry. - Included a thesis.

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Travel & Hospitality, Consumer Goods, Telecommunications, Software & Internet
    uniE621 Creating an accessible, usable and compelling Injection Site Tracking feature
    Introduction: At its core, MyTherapy is a medication reminder application, this means that daily users are getting reminders on their devices about medications that they need to take. Some of these can be Injectables, and with that comes several other complexities, like for example rotating your injection sites. About the Project: Recent studies have shown that injectable medications account for more than 50% of all of the drugs taken. Due to more people taking injectables, there was a strong desire to add some kind of injection site tracking features for the users. This feature could potentially help users to ensure proper rotation, and stop a potential fatty lump (lipohypertrophy) from forming. The initial plan was to only focus on the front side of the body, with planned improvements coming later that included the back side and maybe more sites as well. Project Execution: While working on the feature we realised we wanted to also ensure full accessibility compliance. During the design phase, I realised early on that traffic light colours that would be used, could easily cause issues for those with red/green colour blindness. To resolve this, we added the patterns that can be seen in the designs. These patterns were based on common patterns for these same colours across other websites, as well as using some heraldry symbols. You can read more about how colours and patterns were used in Heraldry here. The next most important feature in terms of accessibility was how we could ensure voiceover still worked and worked well on a feature like this. The complexity lay in how this screen was structured, the selection areas are essentially floating and at different x and y values to get them laid out over the correct area on the body. This meant that we needed to create a focus order that selected the correct area and also announced a phrase that made sense to those using voice-over. Full case study here: https://www.twine.net/signin uxdesign uidesign appdesign accessibility
    uniE621 Smart Connected Diesel Engines
    Introduction: At Bauma 2019, Hatz Diesel Engines wanted to launch two new products. The first is their line of new engines with E1 technology. The first electronically controlled system for single-cylinder engines. The second part was the launch of Hatz Connected Services. With over 600,000 visitors, the Bauma in Munich is the world's largest trade fair for construction. With nearly 3,500 exhibitors, with visitors from 219 countries, the Bauma is the ideal location for the launch of new products that will be used by those in the construction industry. About the Project: A fully functioning application was developed to show users the capabilities of the new E1 engines. The application was designed to show how Hatz Connected Services could help them in their environment and construction sites. After many design options and consultations with the client, we settled on a dark theme for the dashboard. The prototype needed to load live data from the new engine range on display, as well as switch the engine on and off. Project Execution: The app could show stats like engine speed, diesel level, oil levels, exhaust temperatures, soot load and battery voltages. There were also more benefits to the connected possibilities of the E1 engine, that being geolocation. With Geolocation, the site foreman could set limited areas that engine would be allowed to move around in. There was an auto-kill switch, if the engine was moved outside that geolocation. At the Bauma, Hatz tested the prototype with user feedback. The users were able to click through the entire prototype and test the product. They were then prompted to answer a questionnaire, which provided their impression, interactivity, usability and visual design of the product. The results would then be used to determine the viability of the Hatz Connected Services app. Full case study here: https://www.twine.net/signin uxdesign uidesign IoT productdesign
    uniE621 Training Management SaaS Product
    Introduction: While I was working at Hyve Innovation Company, Tüv Süd came to us to work on a series of MVPs for their products. My main focus was on the MVPs that required a bit more UX and development knowledge. The projects were split into three parts, with the first one about a possible training management program. This would be an internal software used for Tuev Sued employees for training. About the Project: The training management application was needed to help rid Tüv Süd of in-house excel documents that kept track of who had done which training, and when. These excel documents became a clear pain point for the Tüv managers. It had become increasingly difficult to keep track of who had completed what. The training manager’s main goal was to consolidate this into one unified experience to help ease this task off the managers and let them focus more on their teams. Project Execution: Some of the necessary considerations were group size, locations of the teams, and also the number of employees a manager had or if they had employees across multiple zones. This meant that a manager needed to access data about a team member who was not necessarily sitting next to them and couldn’t get an easy update straight away. Before we jumped into high-fidelity mockups, we took the research that the in-house Tüv Süd team had compiled and created some wireframes to get a better understanding of whether or not this was going to be viable. We worked with the excel docs that they used in-house and created a system around that. Full case study: https://www.twine.net/signin uxdesign uidesign saas productdesigner webdesigner
    uniE621 Hetras+, the new revised and improved application
    Introduction: Hetras was a cloud hotel PMS (Property Management System). Hetras was able to control everything that the hotel required, from the front desk check-in for the front office team to the housekeeping of a hotel. After starting at Hetras, the team decided that the entire app would be redesigned and reworked. This was the start of the Configuration UI project. The project would be split into 2 parts, the Configuration UI project, which would be used to set up the hotel chains, followed by the Hotel PMS. About the Project: There would be two important components of the updated application, the data structure and notifications. Since we would be moving from an onsite crew to help set up a new hotel chain, to a remote team, the end users (managers of the hotels), needed to be updated about recent activity. The end-users also needed to have a good clear tabular structure for the most important screens. Setting up a hotel chain could be complex if not dealt with carefully, important considerations were different locations (EMEA vs DACH), brand (Marriot vs Marriot Bonvoy), owners (different owners across the same region) etc. Project Execution: The next complex part of the hotel setup was the so-called "User definable codes", these were codes allocated to a hotel to help with setting up the various revenue streams, i.e different room types and sizes, and different market offerings. This page turned into a lot of switches and helper text below the title in order to help the person figure out the correct codes they wanted to set up. Hetras+ was my first big app redesign. Looking back on it now there are lots of things I would say I could fix up. However, I am still proud of everything I produced in this project and everything it taught. I have certainly grown since this project and would say visually this might not be my best work right now, but at the time it was some of my best work. There are certainly lots of accessibility issues, but it was not something I was aware of how to tackle at that point. Full case study: https://www.twine.net/signin uxdesign uidesign saas webdesign
    uniE621 Hetras Design System, Improving Visual Consistency
    Introduction: After a few months of working on the Hetras product, I had continually seen the lack of consistency within the design of the product. There were multiple button styles, and multiple error styles and nothing was cohesive. I collected as much research as I could, and presented the idea of going with a design system for the product. We could fix our broken components, and at the same time improve consistency across the application. About the Project: The September previously (in 2016), I had been to a conference in South Africa and heard about Atomic design systems from Brad Frost. It was something I was very keen to try out and my basis for this one. I had presented to the team how we could go about this, starting small from the atoms and working our way up. This way we could also work iteratively. If we found that colour would not meet certain accessibility criteria, later on, it would be easier for us to change colours across components using the atoms set at the start. The buy-in from management and the team was almost immediate. They were happy with this approach and we began. You can see below how we iterated with buttons and the date pickers. Working iteratively allowed us to work over components several times until we got to a point with that component was done. The Atomic Design System process was incredibly helpful in allowing me to test and change things ever so slightly until there was something that looked great. Project Execution: Months of iterations and testing inside the Hetras+ followed. Small tweaks here and there, as each new screen, was added and each component was tested inside a new environment. Eventually, the design system came together. This was all used as a sketch library, with easy access for myself to create new screens. I was able to create screens significantly faster than previously. New features in the app. We could present new areas of the app to manage and get ideas into the app faster as well. Full case study: https://www.twine.net/signin designsystems uxdesign uidesign
    uniE621 GDPR Compliance Checker Website
    Introduction: While I was working at Hyve Innovation Company, Tüv Süd came to us to work on a series of MVPs for their products. My main focus was on the MVPs that required a bit more UX and development knowledge. The projects were split into three parts, with the second one about a GDPR questionnaire website. The website could be sent to small to medium-sized businesses, to help them check their compliance with local law. About the Project: The questionnaire needed to establish by the end the status of companies' GDPR compliance and whether or not they needed to get a Tüv representative in to help them or not. In an attempt to help make the questionnaire easier to answer, it was split up into two sections. The initial reason for a questionnaire like this was that the cost of sending an analyst would be far too much for the smaller companies that were also required to comply with the laws. This questionnaire would then enable them to get the help they needed if that was necessary. Project Execution: For the questionnaire part, we tried to keep it a bit light-hearted and a bit more modern than the normal Tüv Süd style. The reason for this was to gain the user’s trust before pushing the Tüv Süd Logo in their screens and trying to get them to purchase anything. We tried to continue this same light-hearted look and feel throughout the results screens. The user shouldn’t get the feeling that everything is broken, but they needed to be made aware of any issues that might be occurring on their site. Full case study: https://www.twine.net/signin uxdesign uidesign webdesign webdesigner
    uniE621 Rebranding a Stationery Store
    Introduction: Back in 2019, my in-laws had decided it was time to add a second store to their stationery store business. With this, there was the idea to improve their logo and try to get them online with a Shopify store. Part of this ongoing project that I have enjoyed is that it is a total change from the regular UX/UI work I am usually doing on a day-to-day basis. Being able to go back to my graphic design roots has been fun and fulfilling at the same time. About the Project: I have always loved doing logo design. There are so many complex sides to logo design, like it needing to be timeless, work well both small and large, and in full colour or black and white. I also tried to ensure that the logo would have it's own logomark (A logomark is a purely graphical identifying brand mark), this is where the idea for the pencil came in. Project Execution: Being a storefront that sells stationery both online and in-store, a helpful way to show who stores staff vs regular customers is to create custom-branded polo shirts. You can see here how well the logo worked on the embroidered shirts. On top of the logo design, I have helped out when I can with doing some leaflet and poster designs. Due to the nature of the business, the fun and funky side of things were nice to add. It made for some more interesting leaflet designs than previously experienced. Full case study here: https://www.twine.net/signin graphicdesigner illustrator logo webdesigner designer branding
    uniE621 Digital Therapeutics Marketing Webpage
    *Introduction:* The Smartpatient marketing team wanted to establish MyTherapy as an easy-to-use Digital Therapeutics application. We needed a way to show off the modularity of MyTherapy as an app, and how easy it would be for new pharma partners to join. *About the Project:* The most important part of this web page was to show how easy it could be to set up a DTx using MyTherapy. That is where the step-by-step process came in. This step-by-step process needed to also look and work really well on mobile devices. It was also imperative to ensure that this page could stand out amongst its potential competitors. For this we felt that some illustrations could do this best. Bold colours and bold illustrations were used to make the section stand out. *Project Execution:* This was definitely one of those projects that was more fun to work on when it was in development. Working with our front-end dev on the animations for the step-by-step process wizard was really fun. I also enjoyed working with the bright very contrasting brand colours that SmartPatient has. The sharp pink/red with the dark blue, provides a fun experience when trying to create good looking designs. *Full case study:* https://www.twine.net/signin webdesign marketingdesign uidesign webdesigner designer
    uniE621 Audit and Certification Management Web Application
    *Introduction:* While I was working at Hyve Innovation Company, Tüv Süd came to us to work on a series of MVPs for their products. My main focus was on the MVPs that required a bit more UX and development knowledge. The projects were split into three parts, the final part was another internal tool. Tüv Süd was using more excel docs to track the status of Audits and well as Certifications for the company, this tool would help remove the excel docs and provide an easier-to-work-with system. *About the Project:* By the time we reached this MVP, there was a decision to go with a separate pre-existing design system, so the style of the MVP changed compared to the previous two. The new style and new design system meant that it was a lot easier to prototype as well as faster. Important features for this system would be multi-edit/update, as well as an easy-to-view dashboard. The core users would also require places to easily search and filter the list down. A lot of time was spent on making the list view as editable as possible for the user. *Project Execution:* The next most important part of this product for the managers was a way to easily create/edit/update audit or certificate information. We broke this down into a classic wizard setup, to not overload the screens and to try and make it as manageable as possible for users. Finally, you can see the full overview of what the dashboard would look like. Users could easily hover over rows in order to perform some quick actions, as well as perform multi-select actions. The pages were paginated as well, helping to not overload screens and improve users actions. Full case study: https://www.twine.net/signin uxdesign uidesign productdesign saas

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