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ID: SPEC-2026

Senior Product Designer
Behavioral Architecture

Insight-driven design solutions that balance architectural minimalism with deep human utility, turning complex metrics into transparent, life-saving digital tools.

Lucky Sibusiso Vilakazi

Selected Projects

Interactive Case Studies

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Safety Architecture 2025

Sayf App (Tracker)

A smart, user-centered safety app combining geo-fencing and instant alerts to empower users with calm, confidence, and control. Redesigned to lower task completion times by 35%.

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Behavioral Telemetry 2025

AI Drive Coach

An AI-powered driving coach designed to build safer habits through behavior scoring, rewarding progress, and gamification. Formulated on a 25% targeted adoption model.

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UI Transformation 2025

Insure App Redesign

Transforming a complex, text-heavy platform into a clean, simple interface that helps users manage cover with total clarity. Reduced platform support queries by 40%.

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Biography

My Story & Philosophy

I started my career in the Visual Arts, obsessed with visual composition, depth, and spatial aesthetics. However, I quickly recognized a deeper calling: I didn’t just want my work to be looked at—I wanted it to actively solve problems for real people. This paradigm shift drove me to transition into UX, mapping raw aesthetic structures to real human utility.

Honing my craft inside fast-paced agencies like Wunderman Thompson and software engineering consulting houses like Retro Rabbit taught me how to operate with absolute clarity under strict constraints. I learned to speak the fluid language of developers and product leaders, transforming broad business targets into scalable components.

Through this journey, I became deeply fascinated by safety architecture and behavioral design. When users enter high-stress emergency ecosystems, cognitive noise spikes and traditional UI layouts fail them. My design philosophy is built on stripping away that noise, controlling cognitive load, and architecting predictable environments that preserve user stability during critical milestones.

My trajectory is clear: I am executing a roadmap toward becoming a Senior Product Designer where I can step up to own complex product workflows, champion deep data strategy, and build user trust at scale.

"Design shouldn't just present clean screens; it must structurally arm human beings with safety, clarity, and confidence when stakes are at their highest."

Milestones

Experience & Education

Core Frameworks & Skills

Figma UI Architecture UX Strategy Behavioral Psychology Data Analytics Design Systems Interaction Design Rapid Prototyping Usability Testing Heuristic Evaluation Front-End Logic

Experience

2022 - PRESENT

UX/UI Designer

Retro Rabbit

2019 - 2022

Digital / UX Designer

Wunderman Thompson

2018 - 2019

DTP Specialist

Roeing Creative Kin

Education

UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG

National Diploma Visual Arts

RED & YELLOW SCHOOL

UX Design Certification


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