Darren Hood

Darren is extremely passionate about all things UX, holding 26+ years of experience in human-computer interaction and interaction design, spanning across several high-profile organizations. Darren currently serves as an adjunct professor at 3 different universities. He is one of the authors featured in the new book “97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know,” published by O’Reilly. You can also hear Darren on The World of UX podcast, available through a host of popular sources.

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Antonia Lorz

Associate Senior User Experience Designer

  

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Badi Sudhakaran

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
VALR

  

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Kate Van Niekerk

Head of UX
MakeReign

  

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Supreet Kumar

Design Head
KOKO Networks

  

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Morné Venter

Head of School Creative Technologies
Open Window

  

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Roxana Barbu

Sr. Cognitive and Behavioural Experience Researcher
Macadamian Technologies

  

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James Chudley

Experience Director & Strategic Consultant
cxpartners

  

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Giles Colborne

CEO
cxpartners

  

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Carol Huang

Senior UX Designer
Indeed

  

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Aalia Coovadia

UX Designer
Discovery Ltd

  

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Alfi Oloo

Product Designer
Alfi Oloo

  

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Megan Venter

UX/UI Designer
DVT

  

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Michael Marais

Product Designer
MTN

  

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Monique du Plessis

UX/UI Designer
DVT

  

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Steyn Viljoen

Product Designer
Luno

  

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Schalk Venter

Product Design Lead, Lecturer

  

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Carl Sidler

Experience Director
Wunderman Thompson

  

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Alexander Oloo

Head of Design
Absa

  

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Inez Patel

Design Director
Absa

  

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Danielle Goosen

Design Lead
Absa

  

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Gideon Carstens

UX Designer
Spot On

  

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Sean Dunn

UX Design Lead
Equal Experts

  

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Wynand McCabe

Head of Experience Design
Lucky Beard

  

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Sasja McKay


BBD

  

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Natalia Carvalho

Founder and Digital Director
Estrela Digital Studio

  

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Edna Chelule

Managing Director and Co-Founder
HumanInsights.Africa

  

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Nomonde Shezi

Managing Director & Co-Founder
HumanInsights.Africa

  

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Keynote TBC

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Danielle Goosen

Design Project Lead
Absa Design Office

  

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Estee Jacobs

UX Engineer
Entelect

  

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Irmi-Mari le Roux

UXer
Root Cause Care

  

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Kudakwashe Sachirarwe

UX/UI Designer
Uncommon

  

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Mzwandile Makgoba

Design Practice Lead
DVT

  

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Olivia Lucas

Senior UX Researcher
Mantaray UX

  

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Rob Cowie

Senior Design Specialist
Absa Group

  

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Schalk Venter

Product Design Lead, Lecturer
Schalk Venter

  

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Shay Fisher

Head of Digital
FirstRand

  

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Tshepang Jonathan

Product Designer
SEON

  

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Wadzanayi Kim

User Experience Lead
Beedesigned Studio

  

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Dr. Setor Zilevu

Lead User Experience Researcher at Meta (Facebook)
Meta

  

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Sean Buch

UX/UI Design Leader | Product Strategist & Manager
Entelect

  

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Rachel Main

User Experience Designer
Sand Dollar Design

  

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Davidzo Mashiri

User Experience Researcher
Sand Dollar Design

  

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Jacqueline Fouche

Principal experience designer and Design coach

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Dean Broadley

Design Executive
Designing Humans

  

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Schalk Venter

Product Design Lead | Lecturer
Consultant

  

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Gordon Angus

Product Design Leadership | Ex-Co Founder and Head of Design
Nona Digital (Acquired by Yoco)

  

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Aalia Coovadia

Senior UX Researcher and Designer
Discovery Limited

  

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Cara Winterbottom

Experience Consultant
Consultant

  

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Schalk Neethling

Senior Frontend Engineer
Factorial Gmbh

  

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Kudakwashe Sachirarwe

Product Designer
Uncommon

  

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Schalk Venter

Full-time Consultant / Software Engineer / Lecturer
Front-end Development South Africa

  

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Michael Marais

Product Designer
MTN South Africa

  

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Stephanie de Beer

Lead UX Designer
Goboony

  

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Kate van Niekerk

Anthropologist and UX Researcher
She Can Do

  

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Alfi Oloo

Designer | Mentor | Speaker l Founder of Campfire
Campfire

  

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Ebbie Swart

Product Design Lead at DVT
DVT

  

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Stephan Swart

Fractional CTO | Engineering/DevOps Leadership
Magna BC

  

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Lucky Nkosi

Software engineer - Head of R&D at BBD
BBD

  

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Estee Jacobs

Senior UX Engineer at Entelect
Entelect

  

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Kayembe Gilles Ilunga

Director of Business Consulting at TechniCap Partners
Ilunga Wealth Management

  

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Barend Chamberlain

Senior User Experience Engineer
Entelect

  

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Mika O’Donovan

Lead Digital Product Designer
Glucode

  

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Nadia Naidoo

Competency Lead: Service Design & Design Research
IQbusiness

  

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Varima Henry

Product designer & Entrepreneur
Dobetterux.com

  

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Natalie de Canha

Product Designer and Manager.

  

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Sivan Lapidus

Senior Design Director
Absa

  

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Xandor Schiefer

Independent Consultant
Pixel Theory

  

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Brandon Tancott

Founder
Webstreet Digital

  

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Jody Butts

Senior User Experience Strategist
Cerner

  

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Yvonne Rogers

Professor of Interaction Design
University College London

  

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Lorenzo Palu

Product Designer
Codent Agency

  

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Adele Meijers

UX Researcher
FNB

  

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Lizette Spangenberg

Head of Design
DVT

  

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